Its monday, february 11th, 2019 im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian and louis burgdorf. Were starting off the week with the threat of another Government Shutdown. Its looming as a real possibility as of today. Last friday aides and lawmakers appeared optimistic they could reach a deal by today but now negotiations have stalled. One of the main sticking points is the number of additional beds to give to immigration and Custom Enforcement to detain immigrants who come across the border. Democrats have proposed reducing the number of beds, the more humane policy is to let Asylum Seekers without criminal records to be released while they await their proceedings. Senator shelby didnt appear optimistic about the chances of reaching a deal ahead of fridays deadline. I think the talks have stalled right now. Im hoping we can get off the dime later today or in the morning because time is ticking away. But we got some problems with the democrats dealing with i. C. E. , that is detain
Attempt, i think, b by the majority. This is an inaccurate reports and this is no way to run an investigation. It is only a way to go through the emotions to get the pretense of trying to find the truth. Martha so now we wait for the third leg of this investigation from special counsel robert mueller. Chief correspondent catherine from capitol hill with where this stands now, high catherine. Thank you, martha, the republican chairman of the Intelligence Committee and ranking democrat posted they have more questions and they want to talk to more witnesses, but also indicate the investigation is winding down, no one is talking about evidence of collusion. Though the democrats continue to be concerned about what they characterize as suspicious contact between russians and the Trump Campaign. And also tonight there may be new legal exposure for the personal Attorney Michael Cohen after his lawyer lanny davis issued the select committee on intelligence has accepted mr. Komans request first
Shortly after publication, he hired a team to find out how the tabloid got hold of those Text Messages and photographs. In a blog post posted an medium. Com, bezos said don howard threatened to publish additional photos unless bezos called off his investigation and made a specific false Public Statement to the press. There was no basis for claiming that ami had a political agenda. This can be seen as yet another battle in a larger war between trump allies and his critic. In a statement, ami says it was merely involved in good faith negotiations. To revolve owl matters. The company has acknowledged using the practice known as catch and kill to keep two women Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal from publicizing their claims that they had affairs with the president. Throughout the campaign ami acted as a pr wing, you might say, of the trump campaign, promoting the candidate and savaging his opponents. For more, im joined now by glenn kirschner, former federal prosecutor, mclaughlin mar kay,
God, but im there for my mom because i know, if nobodys watching. Your mom is watching. She is. Shes is it only person in the world i know that is always going to be there. To see our full conversation, make sure you tune in red table talk on facebook. Watch this monday, 12 00, eastern. Thanks for watching. Our coverage continues. Good evening. A very busy night including a new and serious allegation against one of the top three virginia democratic elected officials, all of whom are facing pressure to step down. Also major new developments in the strange and sleazy case of alleged blackmail and extortion of jeff bezos, americas wealthiest man, by the publisher of the National Enquirer a longtime ally of the president. We begin keeping them honest honest with the democrats first big televised hearing in whats expected to be a parade of them as they look into all corners of the trump presidency. Acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker today going before the house judiciary committee. He
I think it has a lot of work to go forward. Lunatics in the have a brand new plan to destroy our economy its called the Green New Deal. Our climate is imperil we need to be bold. The reason eye signed on to alexandria ocasiocortez Green New Deal. Its expensive with all of this. If we governor our dreams that way we would have never gone to the moon. Hey yall. Ed you got to love cory booker saying if we dont pass this radical Green New Deal its going to radically shape our economy we have to dream big just like the moon. Did the staff brief him on the math that there was a lot of fossil fuel used by nasa to get the ships up to the moon . Pete it wasnt battery power. Ed they might have had wind mills zaid jed unicorns. Dont get me started. Ed we will. Pete step back, you have the state of the union which was very effective. Ed that was this week already. Pete this week. The lunancy of the Green New Deal. The democrats are imploding in virginia. Ed we will get to that. Pete a lot of doubl