To whether or not we have a shutdown. Its possible well have a shutdown. The chances are probably very good. I dont think democrats care so much about maybe this issue. President trump, you will not get your wall. Abandon your shutdown strategy. Youre not getting the wall today, next week or on january 3rd when democrats take control of the house. The need for greater security on our southern border is not some partisan invention. Its a fact. The need is only growing. With the shutdown looming, stocks slid. Yesterday the dow dropped nearly 500 points to a 14month low. Right now its down around 180 points. Add to that the high profile exit of trumps secretary of defense, gjim mattis. He didnt just step down. He resigned in protest. The president s plan to slash troops in afghanistan and syria is what ultimately sent the retired marine packing. Dont forget it was just tuesday that this sentencing of trumps former nsa, michael flynn, was abruptly delayed by a judge who brought up the word
Had that would be damaging to the clinton stone. The indictment says stone was contacted by Senior Trump Campaign officials to inquire about future relaess. After the july 2016 release of stolen dnc emails by wikileaks, a senior official was directed to contact stone about any additional releases and what other damaging information they had regarding the county campaign. Stone told them about damaging material by wikileaks. That seems pretty clear. It also stands in contradiction who what roger stone said last year. There is no evidence whatsoever that i had advanced knowledge of the content or source of this material. I received nothing from wikileaks or from the russians. I passed nothing onto donald trump or the Trump Campaign. Weve been through this ad nauseam. It is a wild goose chase. Again, a direct contradiction to what the special counsel says nature is steve bannon. Now a person with direct knowledge of this investigation and indictment tells nbc news the president s former c
Soon. On the other end of pennsylvania avenue im told the white house is ratcheting up their Rapid Response strategy. Our new nbc news team is reporting on the plan top advisers could present to the president this week with one source explaining to me why they think democrats might be vulnerable if the president sticks to the message they want. So far hes sticking it to democrats on twitter, suggesting chairman schiff should be arrested, demanding to meet his accuser as he put it, as the whistleblowers legal team sounds the alarm. What they are now saying about their clients safety. Weve got our team of reporters and experts standing by to break this down, along with the other top stories of the day. I want to start with jeff ben it on capitol hill and hands nichols holding it down at the white house. Thats actually kristen welker, my apologize. Jeff, let me start with you. Walk us through what we can expect to see. This is going to be a busy week with adam schiff suggesting that maybe
Reporting on the Text Messages. Jeff, let me start with you, the Intelligence Community Inspector General just walking in, right . Yeah, right past us about 20 minutes ago, hallie. And Michael Adkinson is the Inspector General who determined that the whistleblower complaint was urgent and credible. So he is likely to give members of the House Intelligence Committee during this briefing, he is likely to give them the fullest accounting of the complaint and how it was handled short of this commit hearing from the whistleblower him or herself. And on that front i can tell you i reached out to the attorney for the whistleblower who says that the negotiations are still ongoing for any sort of meeting between the whistleblower and congress. Now, adam schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, says he wants to know more from adkinson about how he handled this complaint and how he sought to corroborate the details that are alleged within it. Heres what people should know about M
And theres nobody more honorable than rob portman of ohio because he called up, please let the money, i said rob, i hate being the country thats always giving money. When ukraine helps europe and the European Countries far more than they help us. Theyre like a wall between russia and europe. Theyre like a wall. Theyre a big, wide, beautiful wall, and he said, you know what . But its important, and in fact, he came soout and he said that. That was my only reason because i dont like being the sucker country. We were the sucker country for years and years. Were not the sucker country anymore but i gave the money because rob portman and others called me and asked. But i dont like to be the sucker, and European Countries are helped far more than we are, and those countries should pay more to help ukraine. Ask a question, please. Thank you, sir. What about mr. Biden . What did you want about biden . What did you want him to look into on biden . Look, biden and his son are stone cold crooked,