ready to sign it even though his conservative boosters hate it. the house committee that decides how your tax dollars get spent is for the first time led by two women. these men probably never imagined that women would be in charge, and you are. yeah. this is what i gave her when she became chair, and when i became, when i was elected by the steering committee, she s the first one that called and congratulated me. we have that sort of relationship. do you actually use that at the hearings or is it ceremonial? i use it for lots of things. [ laughter ] i ll leave that one to your imagination. we issue ginn the hour waiting for lawmakers on capitol hill to put their spending compromise on paper and waiting for the president to say publicly what our sources tell us he is saying privately. he plans to sign it despite not liking it. we should see the president any moment greeting the president of
their auto payments and the sky isn t falling, kate, but this is something to be aware of that this is happening now. especially in this economy and that s the point. alison, appreciate it. thank you all for joining me today. inside politics with john king starts right now. thank you, kate. welcome to inside politics qwest. i m john king, thank you for sharing your day with us. another busy one. the former trump campaign manager paul manafort said he did not lie after cooperating with the special counsel. the boosters say the new wish list will force a long overdue debate on climate change. the detractors say it s too much, too expensive and could affect trump s re-election hopes. the compromise to turn a border security framework into a plan. cnn is told the president is
neighborhood, and now in a mess because of the maduro regime with this administration with bipartisan support that said maduro must go. and international support. you heard the president of colombia is having a meeting to increase the pressure. what s closer in the neighborhood piece? all of the attention is on the president when he says all options are on the table including the military. that gets the headlines. i think what i m looking for in particular is help to colombia because no country is more affected than them. they ve had hundreds of thousands of refugees pouring over the border and that was very important. it was interesting to hear what we are doing and the president of colombia talk about a more hemispheric approach and avoiding putting the u.s. stamp on a policy that the whole region remembers american intervention. it will be interesting to see if they get a hemisphere-wide
what he wanted. it s a little less than what he was offered this summer, as well, but he does seem to be essentially saying this will be part of a larger move to get money elsewhere and you know, was there some thinking that the republicans would revolt against him if he tried to do something with the executive action or national emergency. we ll see how that plays out. to me, i m interested in it as we wait for the legislation and then we ll have to wait for two days for the votes. does the commentary get to the president in the sense that this is the first big act of the second half of his term and he looks weak. i just keep thinking about the kerfuffle and what we saw back in march of last year where he had to be basically talked about signing the big funding bill because it didn t have the money and the talk show host, the fox news personalities really tried to persuade him on air that this was not a good deal, but now the president does seem resigned that he s not going to get
moment you re ahead of schedule, but hopefully you will be, but some time in the near future. but let me mention something to that question, mr. president. in the first four months of our administration we have eradicated 60,000 hectares, more than was eradicated in the previous eight months. we have a goal, and we will commit to that goal because it is our moral duty to have colombia free of illegal crops and free of narc oo trafficking. we will deliver because it is our moral duty. i just want to say before you leave, the economy is doing incredibly well. the numbers are really high, really good. we have a big team of people, very talented people over in china right now negotiating on the china deal. it s going along very well and we ll see what happens and it s going along very well and they re showing us tremendous respect and something which a lot of countries didn t used to show the united states, they re showing us respect now.