Mark meadows also spoke to reporters today with an update and he said the president is experiencing mild symptoms. But is in good spirits which is good news. What is also, though, important, is what meadows would not say. Woe not get into the treatments that the president is receiving. He also would not detail when the white house first learned one of the president s closest aides, hope hicks, had tested positive. Meadows also did not answer the question when asked why he and others in close contact with the president and hicks werent going into the 14day quarantine with the guidelines set by the cdc. Here is what mark meadows said. Weve tested all of our core staff and i could tell you that mr. Kushner, mr. Skefino and myself and a number of us have been tested and come back with negative results. And yet at the same time, i fully expect that as this virus continues to go on, other people in the white house will certainly have a positive test result. Were going to talk more about that
One of the prognosticators on this, wasserman said this opens the way for about 80 seats to be in play for the democrats in the next election year. As far as some of the enthusiasm in my caucus, i always listen to my members, i respect the ambition that exists in any caucus. Its a part of our life. I am proud of the unity we have had and my leadership in terms of keeping everybody together and fighting the Health Care Bill and the house of representatives, very proud of our success in defeating it the first time, moving them to the right to a place that i think is unsustainable, but defines who they are very clearly. Im proud of our unity, which gave me leverage to succeed enormously in the negotiations on the bill. When it comes to the issues, we are united in terms of our concern for americas working families. Thats what unifies us. When it comes to ambition and having fun on tv, have your fun. I love the arena. I thrive on competition and i welcome the discussion but i am honored by
In fact its after midnight when they gafl back into session. It will be a new day which procedurally will allow them to hold the 1 00 a. M. Vote weve been talking about the last couple of hours. Thats the next step. How did we get here . Keep in mind senate leaders, republicans and democrats say they know they have the votes to pass this . Why has it not moved forward . The crux of the issue is senator rand paul wants vote on an amendment that restores the budget caps which this does away with. Senator paul making clear this deal was crafted last minute put on the floor and filed last minute. There have been no amendments allowed on either side. He is asking for a simple vote. Republican leaders are not giving it to him. Until they give it to him he is not yielding back any time. And we are clearly headed to a shutdown. The issue right now is Republican Leaders and Democratic Leaders are very concerned if you open up the deal, give people amendments that things unravel. Senator schumer
Im jake tapper live from held sinky finland and the ripples of the event that took place behind me are cascading around the world. As you know, President Trump met one on one with russian president Vladimir Putin for two hours. Before the event President Trump blamed the United States for the state of bad relations between the two nations. After their meeting the president stood next to putin and drew a moral equivalence between the United States and russia and told the world that he cannot be sure who to believe, the United States Intelligence Community or the russian president , on the subject of Russian Election interference in the 2016 u. S. President ial election. President trump stood next to putin and said he didnt see any reasons why russia would have done it. Of his own justice departments announcement of 12 indictments of Russian Military intelligence officials just on friday President Trump said the probe was quote, a disaster for our country. It was a stunning moment. Repub
The government is shut down. Mostly that will dictate if this has a real impact. Hundreds of federal workers, aid organizations, Health Care Organizations are tied to a government shutdown. The real question is, will this last long enough to have an impact on them. What we know, at this moment, the senate is about to gavel back into session. We expect a note on the senate floor about 1 00 a. M. They should have a final vote on the deal. This has been clear from the very beginning. When senators woke up, they thought they had the easy job. They knew they had the votes to move this thing forward. Because senator rand paul has made clear, he wants an amendment vote, he wants an opportunity to address the spending in this deal that goes beyond what should be in any deal, he was not willing to give consent to actually move this vote up. Where does that leave things right now . Senator paul is not going to get his amendment vote. That will delay things for an hour and a half to two hours in