Cronyistic act in perhaps all of recent history. This president continues to use the levers of power and the Justice Department to protect himself and his cronies, punish the people who speak out or try to rein him in. I think the president felt as though this was not a fair trial in the district of columbia. Frankly, good luck if youre a friend of donald trump trying to get a fair trial there. Howard joining us now to analyze the coverage, ben domenech, founder and publisher of the federalist, Gillian Turner and clarence page, columnist for the chicago tribune. The media are up in arms over a president keeping out of prison a longtime advisor and selfdescribed dirt eave trick. Whatever you think of roger stone, you dont have to like him, someone who is a true dirty trickster, i think in this case theres a strong arrestingment targument to bemade for overpr. He is an elderly 1reud wh individuaindividual whowas aboun the time of coronavirus. These are times where we see leniency. I thin
Sarah westwood is at the white house with the view there. Barbara, lets begin with you. Just tell us what youre hearing from the pentagon. Reporter well, look, ryan, this visit would in fact have been in the works for some time. Weve chatted about that. This is something that involves the maximum amount of president ial security and security always high for a president. But to travel to a war zone, the secret service and the u. S. Military would have been working to the for several weeks to actually plan this out, to secure the airspace as he entered iraq, to ensure that there is security communications, complete lockdown of security for him, the first lady and the entire traveling party to make sure airspace is monitored into that airspace and as they leave. This is a complex event, the secret service, the u. S. Military obviously know how to do it. They did it for george w. Bush, for president obama any number of times that they visited iraq and afghanistan. It comes at an interestin
Want to go to cnns Boris Sanchez at the white house. Boris, apart from the president s threats, were also hearing a new attempt to shift blame to the presumptive new speaker of the house. Yeah, thats right, jim. This morning, the incoming acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, said he had a gut feeling that Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer wanted to strike a deal with republicans over the Government Shutdown, but he believes that its nancy pelosi, the House Minority leader, the likely future speaker of the house, who is Holding Things back because he believes she doesnt have the votes to become speaker. Effectively, the white house is at a standstill in discussions with democrats over border wall funding. Mulvaney confirmed some reporting that the white house made an offer to democrats that included less than the 5 billion that the president demanded for his wall. Mulvaney would not give a specific figure, but that lines up with what cnn reported in the last few days, that an offer
Quite heavy at times. Weve got a low pressure system sitting over the gulf of mexico. The president alone here at the white house, we get tweets and that is going to slide further the president attacked democrats to the north, bringing that on twitter this morning, writing intense moisture with it. In one tweet, quote, i am in the we also have another low pressure system coming ought of white house waiting for the the midwest. Democrats to come on over and thats going to be out of the make a deal on border security. Heels of this one. Providing that cold air so that from what i hear, theyre folks on the back side of that system are actually going to get spending so much time on president ial harassment that some decent amounts of snow. They have little time left for heres a look at the system as things like stopping crime and we go into monday evening. You can see, places like our military, a quick point cleveland, pittsburgh and there, martin. Philadelphia, youre really mick mull vann
Over money for the president s border wall. Hes not a man under siege. The president is firm in his commitment to make sure we get money for Border Security and therell never be a 60vote deal in the senate that doesnt include money for Border Security slash wall. The wall has become a metaphor for Border Security. What were talking about is a physical barrier where it makes sense. In the past, every democrat has voted for these physical barriers. It cant be about because trump wants it we can no longer agree with it. Sarah westwood is live at the white house. Graham was echoing a talking point from the white house that despite the president still using the word wall over and over again and emphasizing the use of that word, hes actually not necessarily talking about a physical barrier . Reporter thats right, ryan. Its a what weve seen more and more of from President Trumps allies and thats trying to muddy the waters about what constitutes Border Security and what qualifies as a wall. Th