Compared those leaks to nazi germany. They looked at that nonsense that was released by maybe the intelligence agencies, who knows . But maybe the intelligence agencies, which would be a tremendous blot on their record if they in fact did that. A tremendous blot. I think it was disgraceful, disgraceful, that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out. I think its a disgrace. And i say that, and thats something that nazi germany would have done and did do. After a conversation with trump last night, director of National Intelligence James Clapper released a statement to deny responsibility of the leaks and note the undeniable veracity of that 35page dossier. This morning, the president elect appeared to contradict the latter saying clapper told him the document was not true. That was trump. A summary of those inflammatory allegations was included in an appendix and shared with members of congress known as the gang of eight. There they a
They feel the need to share unsupported stories about him. The president elects dispute has driven a wedge between the u. S. Intelligence community and the Incoming Trump administration. And yet, as trump indicated in his defiant press conference yesterday, hes still to the ready to call a truce. Multiple times trump said intelligence officials were responsible for leaking information to the press and compared those leaks to nazi germany. They looked at that nonsense that was released by maybe the intelligence agencies, who knows . But maybe the intelligence agencies, which would be a tremendous blot on their record if they in fact did that. A tremendous blot. I think it was disgraceful, disgraceful, that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out. I think its a disgrace. And i say that, and thats something that nazi germany would have done and did do. After a conversation with trump last night, director of National Intelligence James
all about border security, you see the impacts of the shutdown really starting to show themselves in the department of homeland security. and across the government and we re going to start seeing over the coming days how this impacts real people, how it impacts real lives. and the calculus for the president could begin to change very quickly. josh, we re told that at the staff level there will be meetings all weekend. the new chief of staff, acting chief of staff mick mulvaney is supposed to take the core west wing group to camp david on sunday for an idea session. any of this amount to anything in your view? well, i think it s interesting that the white house wants the message out now that they re working on resolving this shutdown. it seemed like early on the president was willing to just sit there and project this image of him sitting alone in the oval office waiting for the democrats to call. there s now clearly a more forward lean to what the white house is doing to at least c
and what are we going to do? that s why you see discussion population up over the last 24 hours or so, talking about potentially including daca in some type of fix. you had again discussion today about using the emergency declaration. we ve heard the president now, it s been months he has been floating this idea, even during the midterms, we heard him talk like that when he, for instance, deployed the military down to the border there. they re trying to figure out, trying to come up with potential he off-ramps to end this. josh, i don t know if folks have thought through the equation of upwards of 800,000 federal workers having to choose gasoline or health care starting next week, folks who for no fault of their own live paycheck to paycheck as millions do, is any party, either side in this feeling more heat than the other? i think that the white house will begin to feel more heat. i don t know right at the moment how much heat there is, and the
yes, let s get the government open and we can have a bigger fight for the rest of the funding anyway. that was coming whether or not you got $5 billion or more. i support getting $5 billion. i support getting more. but let s get the government open. senator gardner interviewed by the extremely garrett haake on capitol hill. our lead-off panel, jonathan allen, happens to be co-author of shattered, the story of the hillary clinton presidential campaign. jill colvin, white house reporter for the associated press, and josh gernstein. welcome to you all. jill, let me take you to the rose garden event this afternoon. do they seem, this is the white house writ large, to understand either the actual gravity of this going on too long, or even just the superficial optics, the damage of this going on for too long? no. at this point it really doesn t seem like they do. the president still believes that this is a winning issue for him. and you saw him standing out there, you know, twice in