found and the way they ve displayed and they re behavior is embarrassing to me. and the way to come out to this floor and talk about a manner that did not take place in there is disturbing to me. i want to solve this problem. people are hurting, so i tell the democrats get back into the room. let s not leave. let s solve this problem just as the president said, it doesn t even take 45 minutes. we re here and we want to work. well, leader mccarthy described it very accurately. we all came to this meeting. i heard the president say last night that this could be solved in 45 minutes and i had hoped coming to this meeting today that that s what was going to happen. that we were going to sit down and the democrats were going to negotiate in good faith and we were going to come up with a resolution and they obviously had not moved an inch and haven t moved an inch. they ve accused the president of not being willing to negotiate but the president was more than
operative while he was trump s campaign chairman. so more on that in just a second. let s get back to the white house and that meeting between trump and congressional leaders under way in the situation room and a lunch with the senate republicans on the hill the last hour. senator susan collins, a republican, who has called for the shutdown to end was saying there was, quote, vigorous discussion. another senator telling cnn that trump was lively but not confrontational so let s go separate to abby phillip for a bit more color on these meetings and what these different folks are saying, so, you know, another day, another meeting, more negotiating. will this move the needle? reporter: that s a really great question, brooke. we ve been asking for days on whether or not anything is changing on the shutdown front that president trump is saying today what he s been saying for quite some time, that he wants his border wall and that s the message he delivered to republican senators on the hi
you believe this specific meeting is the most significant evidenced potentially of collusion. if what s reported is accurate, if what the manafort lawyers by mistake revealed is accurate, where trump s campaign chairman paul manafort shared confidential or semi-confidential trump campaign data with a russian intelligence operative, mr. konstantin kilimnik, to me, how is that not evidence of an effort to collaborate in some way, particularly when we saw subsequent to this sharing of information the russians use their social media army to try to influence the election by particularly as we ve seen in the area of suppressing african-american vote. can we make that connection from the trump campaign data to the suppression of african-american vote? not at this point, but why else would you be sharing
under rod rosenstein tenure with regard to the investigation. what about the pressure from the president himself? certainly no love lost there. no. there hasn t been any love lost. ironically when he started out, everybody loved him. he was the teacher s pet because don t forget he wrote the memo about comey which donald trump used as justification for firing comey so he was he was the good guy but then came the raid on michael cohen s office and the president was incensed that rod rosenstein allowed this to occur and then, of course, there was the question about whether or not rosenstein was joking when he said, should i wear a wire to record the president whom he apparently believed was out of control? so he denied it and said it was a joke and then he and the president apparently patched things up, but it has been a very rocky relationship because the president believes the mueller investigation is a witch
hunt and who appointed robert mueller, rod rosenstein. rod rosenstein. ladies, stay with me. we ve got to move from that to paul manafort and the incredible news that s come out in the last 24 hours. the stunning revelation that the former campaign chair may have shared information relating to the 2016 campaign with a russian operative tied to the kremlin. what this means for trump s argument that there was no collusion? plus, the man who was expected to be the next attorney general is making the rounds on capitol hill today speaking of hear what william barr told lawmakers about whether the mueller investigation should continue. cause that s no so-so family. that s your family. which is why you didn t grab just any cheese. you picked up new kraft expertly paired mozzarella and parmesan for pizzahyeah! kraft. family greatly.