inquired of. i keep trying to figure out what was he doing that was helpful to the president last night and nothing comes to mind. you have a new piece up for wired. the headline reading as follows, trump must be a russian agent. the alternative is too awful. lay out then what the alternative is. when you look at the last five days of revelations that we have had about the president s strange behavior in terms of russia and vladimir putin, his conversations with putin privately, some of the revelations we have seen, it would really almost be embarr s embarrassing for the president if it comes out that robert mueller concludes that he was not an active agent of the russian government as part of this whole period.
from $5 billion to $2 1/2 billion. the democrats are demanding total humiliation and capitulation. if they aren t willing to negotiate on the wall they ll own the shutdown. if they don t if he is compromising and they are not they will own it. sandra: the strategy on the part of the president here is so interesting. politico has the headline reading why trump has spared pelosi from his personal vitriol so far. they writes he respects the incoming speakers and needs her to get anything done in the next two years. the government shutdown is about to test his restraint, marc. yes. so far he has been incredibly restrained. you notice he hasn t mocked her for being in hawaii like i just did. he is trying not to alienate her. she wants to cut a deal and being very responsible in terms
the president and first lady s official white house christmas photo slammed in a new article. the headline reading, what s up with this year s surreal white house christmas portrait? the article complaining the president and first lady looked like cardboard cut out versions of themselves who should not be smiling amid so much negative news, this is just days after the media attacked the first lady s white house christmas decorations for the second year in a row. i wonder if they care. bah humbug. she looks so chic. she s amazing. wearing a designer gown that was just on the runway. gorgeous. it s already out. she has it. if she was any other first lady without the last name trump, she would be celebrated on every magazine cover. because she s a trump, they just
filed on behalf of mr. papadopoulos that the attorney general and the president may have had one reaction to his floating this idea. but there s no quote, there s no transcript, obviously. we simply can t tell exactly what happened in that meeting from this sentencing memorandum filed in an effort by papadopoulos defense team to get a lighter sentence for him. it s simply not clear. then there is also this development. front page today on the new york times, and the headline reading, u.s. agents tried to turn oligarch into an informer. they re alluding to one example, oleg deripaska, katie, also involved in this story, by the way, of fbi doj effort to try to flip an oligarch, billionaire, that is very close to the upper echelon of power there in russia. potentially later on linking to the questions about russia and the trump campaign, katie.
abby: griff will be on that all day. thank you, griff. former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe speaking out on a column in the the washington post about a firing. the headline reading not in my worst nightmares did i dream my fbi career would end this way. and in it he writes i did not knowingly mislead or lie to investigators. at worse, i was not clear to my responses. because of what was going on around me may well have been confuseconfuse ant distracted ad for that i take full responsibility. sessions fired mccabe last friday indicating he leaked information to the press and misleading investigators that story will continue on i m sure. brand new op-ed timothy dollan democrats have abandoned catholics. last year democratic national committee chairman tom perez insisted pro-life candidates have no place in the modern democratic party. the party now seems a pup tent. the needs of the poor and middle class children and catholic schools right to life have been rejected by