lanny davis, cohen s lawyer points to trump seemingly using the word cash after cohen mentions financing. giuliani in a phone call last week accused cohen of raising the idea of cash payments. tonight giuliani was reached by telephone to talk with laura engram of fox news. the president does bring up cash but he says don t pay with cash. and then cohen says no, no, no, and the president says check, and cohen says i got it. the point is the president wants the transaction to be memorialized. i don t think anyone can suggest this represents the president did anything wrong. with that let s bring in our lead off panel on a tuesday night. robert costa, moderator of washington week on pbs. jackie combs, mimi roca, now a
intelligence, the dni and the head of the nsa has part of that inquiry. the very next day president trump took to twitter writing, quote, you are witnessing the single greatest witch hunt in american political history led by some very bad and conflicted people. make america great again. back with us, eugene johnson, jackie combs and matthew miller. look at this graphic. june 7, comey releases memo detailing interactions with trump, june 8th, comey testifies before senate intel committee. just looking back at his twitter account is kind of a
rejecting the bipartisan compromise that six senators came up with. they feel confident about that. there are democrats who are uncomfortable with this and they worry that the way republicans are framing this could do damage to them, particularly the argument that democrats are choosing illegal immigrants over the military. you started to hear that from the house floor leaders. if it goes down to a daca negotiation, democrats are the ones holding up the government here with their votes in the senate. jackie, you were covering the white house last time we went through this. i want to get a sense of how useful it is to look back at 2013, what transpired then and the fallout from what was about a two-week shutdown. i can go back even farther than that. i was covering congress for the wall street journal in 95 and 96, during that series of shutdowns and i can tell you the common thread, both in 1995, 96
could impact how long it takes you to receive a tax refund since the majority of irs employees could be furloughed during the shutdown. npr political scott detro and jackie combs. let me start with you. we heard from kasie and jeff how much this is firmly focused on the blame game at this point. what comes with that? what comes of that, this argument of who is responsible for what? it gives you an idea that this may last more than another 17 hours or 17 minutes here. both sides c plausibly tell their base a story that thease is buying. trump can say democrats don t want to fund our military and our border. they would prefer illegal immigrants and democrats can say trump is using kids, 700,000 kids, formerly kids, some in their 20s now, as human shields. that resonates.
that rally. out of a number of things that, you know, we ll all be watching for tuesday night, if the primary opponent shows up at this rally, it will be a big ind kag that trump is not interested in healing the divide on capitol hill. jackie, we did hear a different kind of trump in terms of his reaction to the protesters on saturday. he said i want to applaud the many protesters in boston speaking out against bigotry and hate. our country will soon come together as one. it was different from the first two tweets that he tweeted out about this protest. this john kelly literally grabbing his phone and tweeting something different? it had that feel, didn t it? it was because when his first tweets, you thought he was going to really be critical of the counterprotesters. and he pulled back. i don t know if he was watching cable and saw it was largely in boston 40,000 people largely