have hatred for because they feel they ve taken something away. my goal to zp dispel the meth of the demon. christian gets ton s lastward thank you very much for joining us tonight we appreciate it. thank you lawrence. the 11th hour with brian williams is next. tonight, donald trump s war with his own party. the president goes after mitch mcconnell and paul ryan again two fellow republicans that the republican president needs. plus it looks like congress will be asked to pay for the wall with taxpayer money. and it looks like the president is serious about his government shutdown threat if they don t come through with the funding. and predecessor obsession. how 45 just can t seem to get over 44. will he ever? . the 11th hour upon a thursday night is zbeting under way now. and good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 217 of the trump
a tactic at odds with democrats issuing their government shutdown threat. something he called terrible. i m not going to lecture. he ll be a constructive force. reporter: mick mulvaney inn visiti insisting the republicans came out on top. when you heard about the deal, did you think we could build this? reporter: mulvaney attempting toward fixing and replacing existing fencing for the administration. despite the fact there is language in the spending bill that prohibits any money going toward construction of the president s border wall. for the third day in a row, vice president mike pence will be on capitol hill to shore up the vote on health care. the goal for the next 48 hours to get support before congress goes on recess. that is on friday. house speaker paul ryan
and maybe some more unpopular things that you re going to see a backlash from constituents with the latest version? no. i think i can explain to my constituents why this is a better option like i did in the town halls a couple of 700 person town halls which many people sought to disrupt but they re not going to get me off message and i m not worried about disagreeing with people over fundamental policy. that s what the first amendment is all about. i understand the benefit of the first amendment but as a representative of your constituents, are you willing to listen to consti wepts who think that you re making the wrong decision? absolutely. i met during the break with medical people several times and i just got off the phone with one of our representatives from lee health in fort meyers, lee county, talking about how the tax credit mechanism works an some of the things that and some of the things i got answers to when i got back this week. let s talk about the government shutd
problems. they don t know what everybody else knows about this relationship between flynn and the russians, for example, and so the president is going out a little bit on a him and putting his administration on a him instead of just saying let things unfold they tend to sort of barnstorm the area and go, no, this is our guy, even though he s not on the team with us right now? jake, let me bring you into the conversation here. a lot of this could be cleared up if general flynn were to simply testify. he has said or through his attorney has said he has a story to tell. what s the holdup with that? why haven t we heard from general flynn so far? it s a good question. i mean these things often times take time and frankly, any testimony on capitol hill, whether behind closed doors or public is a big spectacle and i can imagine a lawyer not wanting their client to, you know, put themselves through that in such a tenuous situation. keep in mind all this is going on while there s a governmen
dealith government shutdown threat in about four or five days at the end of april so we re talking about at least may until we see a bill come up and, remember, the white house says it wants a trillion dollar infrastructure package. he wants tracks reform. there s a lot of stuff the white house says it wants. the body signals that i get from the white house and people in that world is they don t want to deal with this right now and they want to move on with their lives and beginning to realize there isn t really a way to get both moderate republicans and conservative republicans to agree. jake sherman, e.j., dana, kristen, kasie, a big thanks to all of you. now to microsoft pulse question on this thursday. now that representative nunes stepped aside, do you think a fair investigation of russia s meddling in the investigation can be conducted by the house? that s the question. the pulse is live. house republican leaders floating that health care