was attacking it yesterday. so, people are just very confused about why rod rosenstein issued this statement in the first place. let s talk about the political implications as we heard mark healperin refer to i it goes from drip, drip, drip to a torrent. i agree. capitol hill is very concerned that the investigation is only going to get worse for trump and that makes it much harder to pass tax reform, health care, because the president s negotiating hand is weaker. vulnerable moderate and even conservative congressmen on the hill, they re less willing to go along with what the president says if they know that, you know, some of his top aides are in jeopardy because of this mueller investigation. not to mention you also have mike pence now who s hired outside counsel as well particularly for this russia probe. i have a feeling we ll hear
solution. he is just trying to create the best negotiating hand he can. we have to try to get the europeans to speak with one voice, to be united in presenting putin with some kind of a negotiated outcome that says the russian parts of ukraine can have some a ton my, but you cannot let stand as a principle that you know, russia get next to crimea. president obama said the referendum is unconstitutionally the government of ukraine s constitution. well, so was the coup. if you want to look at the literal what essentially happened, was a street action. so don t focus on that part. let s focus on forget the legal. let s look at the political
and starting with a stronger negotiating hand next time. so you re right that the government shutdown of 1995 and 96 were over spending. this time democrats are not fighting this over spending and are simply trying to tell republicans, tell the faction of conservatives in the party that they cannot use these fiscal deadlines as leverage and sort of try to extort democrats into doing things they don t want to do. our agenda panel today, sarah kliff, sa hihil and victoria, tk you and we will be right back. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation.
bartering chip for the death penalty coming off the table. if he has more information that the feds are interested in, if he gives everything up at this stage, he is now has a very weak negotiating hand. so these days and hours here whether he s speaking or not will ultimately be critical not in the case against him because that s probably a win for the government, but in his ability to negotiate whether he lives or gets the needle. i want to bring in professor dershowitz, alan dershowitz, and also our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin as well. i want to repeat for those who may be tuning in, the u.s. attorney general eric holder has now announced that dzhokhar tsarnaev, 19 years old, a u.s. citizen from cambridge is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction against persons and property at the boston marathon. and he is also being charged with one count of using and conspireing to use a weapon of mass destruction namely an
the problem. the outgoing member, the nrc, head of of the nrc, pete sessions saying, there s no appetite for that type of talk. what s interesting, martin, if you go back to 2010, the last lame duck, speaker boehner actually stepped in it when he was on face the nation and he said i would accept if it was the only thing i could get saving tax cuts for those making $250,000 or below. republicans were upset about that. he had to walk that language back. now you see the language is all or nothing on the bush tax cuts. and yet, luke, we have had an election. we have had exit polling. we have had a new poll in the washington post today, all of which appears to support the president. so, is speaker boehner going to be able, as you said, to step in it again and win at least 20, 30 republican colleagues? well, i think what you ll see, martin, going forward is the reason why they re taking such a tough line on this is because they re trying to strengthen their negotiating