others. they don t necessarily have to have all the stock to control the company. i just think it is a closed case and i can t in good conscience vote to lift sanctions on him. what message does it send that the administration wants to ease sanctions on someone you called a gangster? i think secretary mnuchin believes and he may be right he s negotiated a deal where the oligarch has to give up control of the company. he may be right. i m not knocking steve. he worked hard on this. but this is a close case. tie goes to the runner, if you will. out of an abundance of caution, this guy is bad news. he s a tyrant, a pirate, a gangster and he s hurting the russian people and trying to hurt america. we ve got him down. i say let s choke him. i m not going to let him up. if i can shift gears here for
to be on the hill today. yesterday afternoon even after the situation room meeting with the president jared kushner was on the hill meeting with republicans and moderates. so there are still things happening. the problem is there is still no deal and the president wants to keep this possibility of doing it all on his own in the hopper. it still remains out there as an option available to him. let s see what happens. any moment even from air force one, let us see. thank you so much. moments ago also happening, the top senate democrat demanded that mitch mcconnell take up the house bills that are being passed to reopen the government. listen here. leader mcconnell is hiding behind president trump saying he won t bring to the floor a bill to reopen the government unless the president says okay, even if president trump doesn t support this legislation, his intransgents and hurt america.
the face of a north korean threat. i just feel that level of danger rising significantly and i ll close with the decision to leave syria. that s a huge mistake tactically, it opens the door for resurgence of the islamic state. operationally, it cedes that zone to russia, iran, turkey and strategically, back to the point on allies, joe, it sends a signal that we re not in it for the long run working with our allies in that region so danger ahead, will robinson. again, admiral the mistake donald trump makes, we talked about this a good bit yesterday is he is constantly focusing on the united states an constantly engaging in false economy, saying if we help country a, that s going to hurt america. when, in fact, i m sorry, i don t want to let our allies in on a little secret. but we helped them, we can help ourselves. one of the things that this new
and president xi announced he would be able to serve much longer, president trump said we should do that in the united states. when lank merkel was reelected, it took over two days for the president to reach out to one of our closest allies. i think he needs to reach closer and bring us closer to our allies and speak more firmly toward those a wish to hurt america. and the video uncovered by itn news, alexander nix spoke about this. watch what he said. the republicans asked three questions he
something distinctively dangerous. that is to say he s endangered immigrant children here in the u.s. and endangered american personnel abroad. why? because his comments fuel and inspire hate crimes at home. but his comments also make it more likely that our service personnel are endangered abroad, or they may inspire people to be less likely to support and protect our personnel. he s failed as a commander in chief, principally because he cannot let go of his own racism. don lemon is with us as well. don, the idea of censuring the president of the united states and a congressional resolution, that came up, you remember, right after charlottesville when the president said there were very fine people on both sides, including very fine people, i assume he was referring to neonazis and racists in charlottesville.