month of the last shutdown going through, kristen. no one has any appetite for that on either side of pennsylvania avenue. mike murphy, kasie hits at the crux of what is in the back of every single lawmaker s mind, the fact that if you go back to december, it seemed as though the president was going to sign that initial deal and then he backed out at the last minute because of all of that criticism from his conservative allies. do you think they ve handled this moment differently? has the president behaved differently because he was so badly stung by that last shutdown? well, i think he learned from the pain last time, at least partially. but republican congressional leaders are nervous today because they re in the toddler management business. i think both the republican party and a grateful nation are imploring the white house chef, don t screw up the cheeseburger or meatloaf at lunch, keep him happy today because we need to land this plane.
at the border, but then he said, but we don t need to do it again. that was striking to hear from the president. the bottom line is if things move along as scheduled, as planned, that we will be avoiding a government shutdown at the end of this week. peter, thank you for sticking around for that great analysis, really appreciate it. things continue to be fast moving there at the white house. jeremy, let me get your analysis as well, because we heard something that struck me. the president continues to repeat this line about the radical left. as he argues, the democrats are trying to usher in socialism. you and i were talking about 2020 before we turned to the president. this seems to be a preview of what we can expect on the campaign trail, that the left is radical, they re socialists. exactly, i m glad you connected it to socialism, because they have been hitting this, beating this drum for quite some time now. it actually started during the 2018 midterms, kristen, when you saw th
we re going to raid the corps of engineers fund and have a big fight over cutting flood protections. as long as the drama goes on, i think sean hannity is happy. so the president may be figuring that out, and know in the end they re chained together and hannity isn t going anywhere. kasie, let me go back to you, quickly. map out the next 48 hours. how does this get done by friday from the practical sense? could we see votes as early as today? kristen, don t forget that congress can act very quickly if they want to. and some of those steps have already been put into motion. they re still writing the bill, and we re learning this morning that hoyer, the number two democrat in the house, steny hoyer, said that the earliest votes would likely be tomorrow night. we expect this to start in the house of representatives. that s simply to do with how long it takes to put pen to paper and write a massive bill like this. they also have to do something which we in capitol hill parlance refer t
of course trying to defend their position on iran as the europeans, kristen, are trying to avoid the american sanctions that have been reimposed after the president got out of that deal as well. a big foreign policy moment for the vice president, and by proxy, the president. well, tremendous interview, andrea, that covered a lot of ground. we will be following your reporting for the rest of the week. really appreciate it, good to see you and safe travels. thanks for doing the show, thank you, kristen. always, thank you, andrea. and coming up, right hand woman? senator cory booker talks to rachel maddow about a potential running mate. you re watching andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc. rts onlc don t fence me in. let me be by myself in the evenin breeze,
reports that robert mueller is zeroing in on a meeting between paul manafort and a man linked to russian intelligence. it took place in 2016 say new york cigar room and it was with konstan kilimnick who mueller has indicted. the post reports, quote, it was at that meeting that prosecutors believed that manafort and kilimnick may have exchanged key information relevant to russia and trump s presidential bid. the encounter goes very much to the heart of what the special counsel s office is investigating, prosecutor weissman told a federal drug. mimi rocah, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. clint watts, national security analyst for msnbc and a former fbi special age. and julia ainsley, nbc news national security and justice reporter. julia, i want to start with you. bring us up to speed. what s the takeaway, what s the significance here? kristen, the post is simply reading this transcript, the 143 pages that came out thursday night. and it was fr