case. sara, thank you very much for sharing your exclusive reporting with us. joining us to discuss are edi r editor-in-chief of the daily beast john avlon and chris cillizza. john avlon, the idea that he is no longer agitated about the russia probe, that is newsworthy and notable. it sounds as though he is sort of transferred his ire to christopher wray, head of the fbi. this is some of maggie haberman s reporting, in addition to sara s. what s fascinating is the reason the president is incre e increasingly feeling he is going to be exonerated comes from the lawyer. expect a big exoneration. it will all be okay. there is light at the end of the tunnel. the dangerous trap is if there is not an exoneration, an
mr. trump as associates or russians attempt to meddle in the election? no. absolutely not. well, late today the president tweeted again, sally yates made the fake media extremely unhappy today, she said nothing but old news. the news about flynn is incre e increasingly problematic. nbc reported in his first meeting with donald trump after the election, president obama warned him against hiring flynn. according to press secretary sean spicer, that wasn t a surprise given flynn s harsh rhetoric against obama, president obama fired flynn in 2014 as the head of the defense intelligence agency. also today nbc reported the defense intelligence agency did no former director michael flynn had been paid nearly $34,000 by a russian state media outlet, that s called rt, when renewed security clearance back in april 2016. defense department is investigating whether flynn broke the news. for more i m joined by the
you guys have such a wonderful time. thanks for talking to us here on cnn. thank you. thank you. okay, poppy. i m nerding out because i m such a huge fan of them. i m glad you are, too. i m so jealous! i m superduper jealous, incre e increasingly jealous by the minute. i love them, and i agree they should definitely have a show and it should be here on cnn. we ll get back to you in a moment. laurie, as we were talking about earlier, social media is huge. if you can t be at the dinner you can feel like you re at the dinner from our coach. what are we see something. we ve been monitoring what our viewer are looking at what people are tweeting from the red carpet. obviously lots of celebrities. jessie tyler ferguson, my own favorite celebrity don lemon. i think part of this thing is you get to the red carpet, you
budget control act and uses gimmicks to raise revenue. heritage action responding to boehner said lawmakers will have to explain to their constituents, many of whom are our members but they ve incre e increased sfending, increasing taxes and offering up another round of promises waiting to be broken. that will be a tough sell back home. a difficult spot for some republican street fighters defending it while holding their noses. it s the best compromise you can get. it s nowhere close to what republicans like to have. tough for the congressional golden boy and former vice presidential candidate paul ryan who co-authored the deal knowing his base will be watching if he ever runs for higher office again. if i clog my judgment by what is good for me or political or not, or how does this help me juxtapose against somebody else? this is not right in my opinion. anybody who thinks my vote is for sale to heritage action is sadly mistaken.
joining me is congress van hollen who is a ranking member on the budget committee and a man many expect to be the next democratic speaker of the house. i do mean that. let s start. you don t have to take that back. you re young, you have a shot. let s talk about i like your book, by the way. the book on kennedy. thank you. let s talk about the speaker of the house. you said in the press the last couple hours or day that boehner is waiting to get re-elected speaker so he can have the republicans behind him before he cuts this deal. well, my point is this, the big holdup right now is the fact that speaker boehner cannot get a critical mass in his caucus a mass in his caucus with incre e increased rates on wealthier individuals. if he doesn t have critical mass, he has a choice. he could easily bring a bill to the house that allowed for a vote. it might require less than half of republicans joining with democrats, but we can get it done. there s nothing in the constitution.