Want and i will vote yet. Dean heller is the only republican standing for reelection in a state that went for hillary clinton. And he has a fellow republican who is the governor who doesnt like this bill. Hes in a tougher place. Im not exactly sure what Mitch Mcconnell could come up with that would move mr. Heller into the yes column. His rhetoric has been pretty emphatic. If you have got rand paul who is the least likely of the 10 at the conservative end and dean heller at the more moderate end, if heller thinks its too frugal, the more you push it one way and make it more generous, you will lose the frugal folks. Arthel lets take a listen. This is still a work in progress. Though the leader of the United States senate is very good at establishing coalitions to see that legislation passes. But its still a lot of work to be done to determine whether it gets to 51 votes. Maria what is your gut . Do you think it happens this week . My gut tells me this is very difficult. I hate to say th
Authorities are treating this as a likely terrorist event. I want to have bring in to the discussion the information that you have just mentioned which goes to the idea that there was a level of coordination and likely a cell that was involved in this attack. We have the initial event, which was the plowing down of pedestrians, tourists, families On Las Rambla, which is pedestrianized. It does allow for some vehicle traffic. Now a followon event in a nearby street with the police, individuals apparently armed. Now, as you have been reporting for the last 90 minutes, shepard, they have also shut down the subway systems. Based on my experience, covering this area for more than a decade, they shut down Commuter Systems when they believe they have an ongoing operation. So they are trying to prevent followon attacks and they are trying to limit
movement in their effort to identify suspects on the rental vehicles. Renting a van tells you that they wanted to maximize casualties, whatever thei
Footsteps trying to follow your lead for how to extract information from this man. We have doubleteamed him, as has the world on this question of where did you get the information . And what strikes me as so interesting today, no reporters have caught up with that. Theres no report in the new york times, the washington journal, the Washington Post, no one has figured out where Michael Avenatti got all this Banking Information about Michael Cohen. And weve got little pieces of it and prospects of little piece of it. We have news organizations, including nbc news saying they too have seen financial documents that corroborate what Michael Avenatti reported p p we have these Big Companies corroborating what he reported saying yeah we paid that money to Michael Cohen. Now we have the treasury Inspector General reportedly investigating to find out if somebody released suspicious
reports from the Banking Sector and if thats the way he got this information. If thats the way he got it, and the
Himself of south korea is not in any way suggesting that trump should just accept. Be cautious, first engage at a lower level and trump is like no, i want to do it, lets announce it now. The south koreans end up making the announcement in the driveway in front of the white house. On every level, this is unprecedented, and yet on every level, this is par for the course and what we should expect with President Trump. Normally presumably you would have had the president say, lets think about it. Sure. Lets convene a National Security council meeting. Even president moon jaein, the south korean president all for engagement and negotiation, offered to meet with kim jongun he said if the continues are right, let me think about this. Ill get back to you. President trump normal situation should have done convene a meeting and talk about pros and cons of having such a Summit Meeting with kim jongun, and then coordinate the policy and
then announce it. So stanley, whats wrong with trying this .
I think the salient points made by our memo still exist and they are still true. A little bit of it is creating so much dust and clout that people just give up and saying, you are saying that, i am just going to tune out. That may be part of it too. Martha it seems like one of the Big Bones Of Contention would be whether or not it was essential to the fisa surveillance. You have argued that it was essential, that without it, they would have not received the authorization for the warrant from the fisa court. Do they have you said that there is other information about carter page. You said they are basically three things. You have yahoo news article, the dossier, and other information about carter page. Can they argue that other information was substantial enough . They didnt make that argument to the judge. If you have enough without the dossier, then why did you
include the dossier . If you have enough without the dossier, why did you, in your court filing, lead with the dossier . Lawy