turn his attention to reopening the government and he ll be welcome to make the speech. but the president sees every decision as a personal slight to him. this isn t about him. this is about the american people, a functioning government, taking care can of workers who are doing their jobs and not getting paid and i think the speaker fundamentally and supported by the cocaucus, we d believe it s appropriate to have a state of the union speech while the union is shut down. do you hear any mutiny or opposition within the caucus? the majority coggase aucus a really unifietd and committed to doing everything we can to get the government oopen. year going to continue to vote and weir a we re very committed to that. you don t get it. watch pelosi. she knows how to do it. the ongoing stalemate renoorz
well, you re a little bit concerned when trump was talking about winging it and gauging the room on pure chemistry, like within the first few minutes. this after all is not a real estate or a business deal, and it s not just about the two individuals meet iing, the two leaders of the country. literally global security is at stake here. to have the president make something so personal and seem flip about it concerns me. this isn t about him. and like so many other things in the way that he has managed his administration, he forgets that this is about the lives of millions of people on the peninsula, in the region. and frankly, in the world. and so, yeah, it gives me pause not only because it seems like more style than substance, but it s very cavalier, given the gravity of this security
that. but first, does donald trump, do people at the top of the administration, have reason to worry? i ve spoken to people who have been questioned by mueller s team in recent weeks, more than one, and the sense is that this is deeply, deeply serious, that mueller is becoming more aggressive with his questioning, that they are zeroing in on something, what that something is vague and mueller certainly isn t giving that up, but this isn t child s play. and we said a couple days ago peter baker they already seem to have enough evidence to have manafort dead to center. you don t need rick gates to get manafort. he stayed on and helped with the inaugural committee, was there an awful lot. do people above paul manafort have a reason to worry? does donald trump have a reason to worry? and when you say this investigation is gaining steam,
even though this story isn t necessarily about collusion between his campaign it s about the ongoing threat that russia poses to democracy. our country. this isn t about him. it s about the country. sh and complicates matters because elections are not federal matters. they are state and local matters. we have 50 state elections, place, manner, time, how the elections are run are run by states so this spreads the responsibility out of this story. the congress and to the states. that is they re going to have to harden their systems. they re going to have to do what they can to interfere with the meddling not only, you know, from abroad which is a national responsibility, but in the states and that goes to congress. will congress fund efforts to harden the systems? will state legislatures pay the money necessary to harden to harden the voting system? it s not just the elections. look what they were doing after the parkland shootings. they re meddling and trying to agitate and cr
not in a very difficult spot because if rob porter s accusers need to be not just heard but believed, what does that say about donald trump s accusers, all of whom he has said were lying for political reasons? right now. it s hard. it would be hard not that this president hasn t done things like this, one thing is directly contradictory to other things he ease done. he s got a black eye. he s got an order of protection. and he has statistics that would scare the heck out of anybody. it is a leading cause of homicide among half your population. it s something that i think rises to a level where he can clear space for himself where this isn t about him. i don t think it s going to go away. dana chris, thank you very much. thank you. so the white house has struggled to get its story straight and its timeline