house. one the president expected to make a statement on that shutdown at 3:00 p.m. today. the second one involving the special counsel s office and a report about the president. in a rare move robert mueller s office disputing an explosive story from buzz feed. the report stated president trump directed his former lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress about negotiations to build a trump tower in moscow. the special counsel s office put out this response. quote, buzz feed s description of specific statements to the special counsel s office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding michael cohen s congressional testimony are not accurate. the statement may allude in part that buzz feed learned about the alleged directive through interviews from multiple witnesses, text messages and a cache of documents.
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itinerary, belgium for a stop, where the speaker would be spending taxpayer money on security but also hotels, meals, and other lawmakers involved, there was a bus full of lawmakers headed for the capital to joint base andrews, maryland, to meet in air force jet to take overseas. the spokesman says the speaker wanted to thank our men and women in uniform and obtain national security briefings on the frontline, this was all official, the president brought that bus to a screeching halt with this letter, dear madam speaker, due to the shutdown i m sorry to inform you that your trip to brussels, egypt and afghanistan has been postponed. will reschedule the 7 day excursion when the shutdown is over. nancy pelosi s office disputing she was planning to go to egypt. democrat adam schiff was supposed to be on the trip with nancy pelosi, he said this was a fifth grade stunned by the president but mike emanuel pressed pelosi on why she is not seeking to compromise with the president.
that when you see a crisis, a tragedy of this proportion, large numbers of children being slaughtered, that would elevate it to another level. well, it did elevate it to another level for a couple weeks. yet it fades away again. it used to be congress would only act in times of crisis. now it seems even a time of crisis isn t necessarily enough. and that s with gun control and fiscal action and just about everything else. we ve just become absolutely paralyzed in the ability to make even the most common sense change. 200 a week, martin. start putting the faces of the victims up on the screen. start putting the pictures of the crime scenes on the screen here. we will. gentlemen, thank you so much. thanks, martin. and a note before we go to break. a guest earlier on this broadcast ron meyer jr. who openly supports firing the speaker shared a rumor that he would resign his position this evening. anyone watching saw our skepticism and in the past few moments a statement from the sp