Business news and analysis. The book, so maybe the president could be right about that. Something that the president knows hes got some backup on when pushing this issue, trish, of immigration and his national security, he was standing there with guiseppe conte, the new Prime Minister of italy that won office based on wanting to reform italys Immigration Laws and tighten Border Security there. Angela merkel, who is not exactly a huge fan of the president , has recently said that germany is going to tighten up its borders as well. So perhaps public sentiment is moving in a direction that the president believes if he were to pull the trigger on a Government Shut Down, might be one that he could benefit from politically. That really would be bucking history, trish. Trish thanks, john. The president pushing ahead with his shut down threat despine warnings from gop leaders, especially with the midterms coming up around the corner. Here with me right now, u. S. A. Today congressional reporte
Meeting. That trumps own son took it explicitly being promised damaging information on clinton and then the times gave the actual information. The meeting, if it is what you say, i love it. If you did that, you might need a wider defense than denial. In october came the multiple denials. October 30, the Special Counsel announcing the indictments against Paul Manafort who goes on trial tomorrow, plus his deputy, Campaign Manager rick gates. Mueller also announced guilty pleas of George Papadopoulos who admitted contacts with who . Russian nationals. Who he thought were tied to the russian government. Who offered him what . Yes. Information about the possible release of Hillary Clintons emails. So following those indictments we then saw allies of the president including now and this is key, the president s own lawyers, picking up the argument like Go Pro Camera, collusion is
it went away for a few months. The president was focusing on just the straight up no collusion point. You see it i
David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Wideranging conversation the two of them had. Let me play a tape here from senator Lindsey Graham, senior senator from south carolina, responding to all of this. When it comes to Michael Cohen, you should be very suspicious of anything he says. Hes on the hot seat. Mr. Cohen, if youve got something new to say, you need to come to congress and say it under oath. Everyone is a lawyer. I should say, Lindsey Graham is actually a lawyer. So he has some justification there weighing in, i guess, on what happens on the hot seat. Sara, give me your perspective on this. We have seen teases here from Michael Cohen, lanny davis releasing that tape, memobly on tuesday night. We listened to it in realtime as it was played out on cable news. Weve heard it subsequently. Whats your sense here of what Michael Cohens thinking, his frame of mind here as we approach a new week . Well, its true that cohen is in the hot
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Guiliani described the supposed meeting, then said it never happened. And he once again reiterated the president knew nothing about the meeting in advance. Tonight, Rudy Guiliani seems to be muddying the waters about what meetings may have taken place before the now controversial june 2016 sit down between donald trump jr. And the russians. Guiliani brought up for the first time another meeting without the president three days before the russians met at trump tower. Guiliani claims reporters have been asking questions about its occurrence, and guiliani is trying to make clear it did not happen. There wasnt another meeting, that has been leaked, but hasnt been public yet. That was a meeting, alleged meeting three days before. He says there was a meeting with donald jr. , with jared kushner, with Paul Manafort, with gates, and possibly two others in which they out of the presence of the president discussed the meeting w
A look at the latest news and headlines of the day features discussions of politics and culture, analysis of Political Correctness in Campus Craziness and. Outlets dont toe the democratic tparty line, the line that has existed for about 15 minutes. The left also used to worry about the unchecked power of the sectors of our government, the cia and fbi. They worry that those bureaucrats might violate Civil Libertieste At Will and might sy on americans. They might hide all that beneath a black cloak of the word classified. Now those agencies have used their power to spy on trumps associates. Suddenly, the left considers them these unaccountable members of The Deep State heroes. How about this one . P for decades the left accuse the rich of not paying their fair share of taxes. Okay, last years Tax Reform Bill Roll back the amount of state and local taxes that rich people can deduct. Now that the wealthy forms thee core of the Democratic Partys constituency, liberals are outraged by this.