government contractors who won t get paid. it s the government services that aren t being provided. it s not only the national parks that are now overflowing with garbage, apparently, and you ve got home loans, farm loans, not going out the door. passport applications being slowed down. look, most of what happens in government isn t partisan. right. you would hope that regardless of party, you would want to make sure that government works effectively. that s why any of us come in to public service. the fact he has so little disregard for this that he s willing to basically sink a quarter of the federal government for a wall that s not going to do anything shows how little disregard he has for government. all right, chris you know, there s a pattern in each one of these shutdowns which is republicans tell themselves and tell the country, oh, no one cares about the government shutting down and, oh, only essential workers need to report to work. well, why isn t that the case eve
for decades in new york. so, in that sense, he may be enjoying it and may be very comfortable. it s also the case, chris,s that it s kind of unburdening if you don t care about the functioning of government to play out the tabloid spectacle that mona s describing. it s exactly right. senator van hollen explained it well. there are 800,000 federal workers who are furloughed or working without pay. you ve got countless other government contractors who won t get paid. it s the government services that aren t being provided. it s not only the national parks that are now overflowing with garbage, apparently, and you ve got home loans, farm loans, not going out the door. passpo passport applications being slowed down. look, most of what happens in government isn t partisan. right. you would hope that regardless of party, you would want to make sure that government works effectively. that s why any of us come in to public service. the fact he has so little disregard for this that he s
there really isn t. i mean, it s such a partisan issue even still, then it s going to be a complete repeat, if not worse, of the 2016 elections. natasha, thank you very much. staff writer at the atlantic. she brings up the fact that russian intervention is not partisan. it is an attack on democracy. somebody who wrote for that for times magazine, msnbc s chief international security and diplomacy analyst. let s pick it up, admiral. what we have seen russians do, the fact that this isn t partisan. their effectiveness doing that. what did you learn from that indictment friday on what they set out to do and what they were able to accomplish? should be no surprise to anybody that russia is one of the leading actors in the ability to employ offensive cyber and psychological techniques in order to influence events and elections, and that s not just in the united states, as you know, david.
they said this isn t partisan. it is patriotic. they are seeking millions of dollars in damages over allegations the russian government over the trump campaign and wikileaks were involved in a conspiracy to help donald trump in the election. s chairman tom perez said russia launched an all-out assault on democracy and found a willing and active partner in donald trump s campaign. no one is above the law and the perpetrators of this attack must be held accountable. the lawsuit is in response to the hacking of the dnc email servers based on information that has been widely reported in the news so not a lot new here. it does target some familiar faces including donald trump junior, jared kushner, paul manaford, george papadopoulos. the trump campaign fired back saying this frivolous lawsuit is a last-ditch effort to substantiate baseless russian collusion allegations by a nearly bankrupt democratic party trying to counter the will of the people in the 2016
something that s not unique to america. having said that your democratic colleagues, i suppose they will be coming out with their own version or their own conclusion. is there any chance it could be significantly different than the findings that republicans came to? i think on the heart of these recommendations and these findings, i think there is going to be bipartisan support for this. we tried to be nonpartisan, very factual. i think there is much of this they will agree with. we look forward to working with them over the next few weeks to find mutual agreement. some of in this i suppose they probably will differ with us. we welcome them to put their own comments into this report. they are more likely to do their own report. but, once again, the majority of this isn t partisan. it isn t divisive. it s just common sense. and i think that when people see the redacted portion of our you know, unclassified portion of our analysis, i think most americans are going to see and apprecia