To that and how they will defend him. Weve got a lot to get to. Lets go to our colleague lauren fox on capitol hill. Good morning to you, lauren. So at least the optics were of progress in the oval office yesterday. Susan collins leading that meeting with the president. But was there substantive progress . Well, sure. I think republicans felt it was a good meeting, a Good Opportunity to speak directly with the president about what their hopes are for their own covid relief package. But, look, democrats are charging forward with their plan to use that budgetary tactic to go ahead and pass that 1. 9 trillion bill with just democratic votes. They are arguing essentially that republicans are willing, if they are willing, they are allowed to come forward and vote for this process. They are welcome to be a part of it, but they are saying they need to be bold, they need to go bold and you saw that yesterday reflected in the statement from the White House Press secretary after that meeting had
Announcer campaign 2020. Watch live coverage of the president ial candidates on the campaign trail, and make up your own mind. Yourns campaign 2020 unfiltered view of politics. On this thursday afternoon, an aerial view of the iowa state fair, which dates back to 1854. The fairgrounds located in the capital city of des moines. It is the single largest event in iowa, one of the oldest and largest agricultural fairs in the country. This year, more than 500 exhibitors, rides, and no shortage of food. Also no shortage of candidates running for the democratic president ial nomination. Iowa is the first in the nation caucus state. There will be plenty of politics over the next week and a half. Nearly 20 of the candidates confirmed they will speak in an area set aside by the Des Moines Register, to hear politics, take questions. The candidates each have 20 minutes. The fairgrounds are also famous for the infamous butter cow, and the flipping of chops on a stick , as the candidates work the cr
We also know he can be seen as the strong and bold, also weak and fearful here. Explain whats going on. Reporter well, i think Donald Trumps the only one that can tell us exactly whats going on here, but its clear that this is a gamble in many ways. Were in a state thats known, you know, for farming, and this was, in effect, him playing a game of chicken with both fox news and ted cruz. Donald trump, though, by making this statement, effectively freezes the race, if he doesnt show up for this debate, freezes the race where it is right now. We can put up new numbers that show exactly where it is, these numbers now from monmouth. A month ago, donald trump was trailing ted cruz in the state by roughly five points. Now this latest poll from iowa shows that he is up by roughly seven points. No matter what, we know this is going to be a tight race, but clearly, the momentum has appeared to be on trumps side in recent days. It also sort of solidifies, cements the narrative that donald trump i
And for rick wilson that has been true all along. He was a marco rubio supporter in the primary. But unlike a lot of other professional republicans, including senator rubio himself, rick wilson didnt decide to eat his criticism of trump once he won the nomination and the election. He has stuck with his critique. He is the unusual high profile republican that started off as a no to trump guy, and he remains a no to trump guy. And hes not the only one. There are some, not many a. Back during the election last july, which was right after we started getting the first reporting about how russia appeared to be involved in the hacking attacks on the democratic parties email servers, last july rick wilson got a call from a reporter about something very strange and honestly very worrying. That was starting to circulate about donald trump. A Investigative Reporter in the tv News Business called up rick wilson and said, youre a never trump guy, have you heard anything about this private intel ope
U. S. mexico border, hitting the president hard on immigration. Let us free every single dreamer from any fear of deportation. It is sunday, march the 31st as we read memo after memo after memo and wait for Robert Muellers report. There were several questionable incidents involving the president s team, but we cannot prove a criminal connection. No collusion, no diggity, no doubt. Up with me this morning, legal analyst lisa green. Mar and fred hochman, former president of the u. S. Import export bank. We start with bill barr, whos at the center of so much happening in washington today. The report special counsel robert mooueller has written, t democrats are demanding to see by tuesday, and he was part of the contentious discussions that led the administration to push for the complete repeal of the Affordable Care act, a move that could lead to tens of millions of americans to losing their health care coverage. Bill barr has the Mueller Report in hand. He gets to decide what gets redact