information from the anti-trump dossier and officials did disclose details about its author to the fisa court. joining me is the white house principal deputy press secretary raj shah. good to have you on the program thanks for joining us. good morning maria. thanks for having me on. maria: the president was on fox news last night and he said the memo, the democratic rebuttal is fraudulent. how is it fraudulent? well, the democratic memo was designed to basically undercut the republican memo. the nunes memo and basically failed to do that. the nunes memo raised two very important points, raised a lot of important points but the two most important were that this fisa warrant would not have been sought had it not been for this democratic dossier that was funded by the clinton campaign. the nunes or sorry the schiff memo doesn t undercut that. this was based on testimony base the fbi, deputy director andrew mccabe. it doesn t even address that
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but our comprehensive approach to financial planning can help make sure you re prepared for what s expected and even what s not. and that kind of financial confidence can help you sleep better at night. with the right financial advisor, life can be brilliant. maria: welcome back. a standoff in the senate when lawmakers are trying to reach an agreement on a spending bill and reopen the government. the house already passed a stopgap bill thursday night after gaining support from members of the freedom caucus. joining me is republican congressman david schweikert. he s a member of the house freedom caucus. congressman good to see you thanks so much for joining us. good morning maria. maria: of course you voted yes on the house spending bill on thursday. what is your take on what s going to break this and get the government open again? it s a brilliant question because this isn t the log jam
it s our stupid tax policy that keeps that money away from america. we can easily fix it. the rest is very good but those are the three drivers. we will get all three because the republican house does not come back if they don t pass pro -growth tax cuts that give you solid growth going into the first six months of next year and the senate where the republicans could gain five, seven, eight seats you won t see those gains unless they deliver the growth that trump and the republicans promise. maria: so i think they know that and they want to get this done by year-end. sounds like you agree we will in fact see that in the coming months. yeah, politics and economics combined to say this has to happen. maria: exactly. grover good to see you thanks so much. thank you. maria: grover norquist. at the top of the hour media buzz. good morning maria president trump dancing with the democrats as friends chuck and nancy getting rare positive press except from conservative pundits
forecast. good morning maria. we will be looking at people traveling in the next few days. the weather pattern doesn t favor smooth sailing. they are bringing rain in indiana and illinois even in showers through parts of alabama. a second storm system murder west bringing in snow across the rockies and further west into the cascades and sierras. the rain already moving in. snowfall with higher elevations. it will be very significant out west. because we are tracking as much as 2 feet possible travel will be quite a mess. we have extensive winter storm warnings in effect across the western u.s. rain will be there in the pacific northwest. those temperatures not a problem the a all across the eastern u.s. very mild 50 s and 60 s widespread. thank you very much maria. the time is almost 20 minutes until the top of the hour. terror threat taking over the