before. he s not a particularly funny person. second, he in july of 2016 said russia, if you re listening, blah, blah, blah. he said he was joking. he knows from the mueller report what we all learned was that five hours after he made that supposed joke that comment however he meant it, the russians for the first time went after hacking hillary clinton s e-mail. he said this the other day knowing full well that his words carry weight, that china as a result, we will learn that china five hours later started hacking into joe biden s campaign? i ll go to you on what fillepe said, what other offramps would the president be considering? some sort of admittance that it was not the best thing to do and would not do it again, but is this impeachable? no. is that one way to have it usable from conservatives?
point. to that point, colonel, in your opinion moving forward, do you think these tensions can be deescalated with iran without military action, these sanctions that we believe are forthcoming could be enough? what do you see moving forward? i would love to be hopeful. i would love to say everything will be diffused, but iran will be painted into a corner and they re going to lash out because they know if they do something like shooting down a global hawk, they will get a reaction, and they will portray themselves as being strong to their own people. having said that, there are several offramps that are possible in this particular situation where tensions could be defused. the question is will iran be willing to take those offramps and will the united states also be willing to do that? i don t think both sides are ready to do that yet. thank you to both of you,
denied a request to pay air traffic controllers and other federal workers who remain on the job. that ruling came down even as some furloughed workers at the irs, tens of thousands of them in the faa, are being called back to work with no pay. with us tonight to talk about it, donna edwards, former democratic member of congress representing the great state of maryland, and phil rucker, pulitzer prize-winning white house bureau chief for the washington post. phil, any movement, any offramps that you know of? none, brian, and that s the problem facing both republican and democratic leaders on capitol hill, and they re growing exasperated because they know that it s possible to get out of this shutdown quickly. they can pass the spending bills that already cleared the house and sort of table a debate on border security, but that s not something the president will tolerate or support. he s demanding his border wall funding, and frk democrats will not tolerate that.
which he now calls a barrier. also today, a federal judge denied a request to pay air traffic controllers and other federal workers who remain on the job. that ruling came down even as some furloughed workers at the irs, tens of thousands of them in the faa, are being called back to work with no pay. with us tonight to talk about it, donna edwards, former democratic member of congress representing the great state of maryland, and phil rucker, pulitzer prize-winning white house bureau chief for the washington post. phil, any movement, any offramps that you know of? none, brian, and that s the problem facing both republican and democratic leaders on capitol hill, and they re growing exasperated because they know that it s possible to get out of this shutdown quickly. they can pass the spending bills that already cleared the house and sort of table a debate on border security, but that s not something the president will tolerate or support.
people, folks who worked on his campaign, who keep telling him this is the way to go and you ve got other people, though, in the white house who are looking at this and saying, look, what is the off ramp here? at some point, this can t go on forever. what are we going to do. that s why you ve seen discussion popping up over the last 4 hours or so talking about potentially including daca in some type of fix. you had discussion today about using the emergency declaration. we ve heard the president now, it s been months he has been floating this idea, even during the midterms, we heard him talk like that when he, for instance, when he deployed the military down to the border there. they re trying to figure out, trying to come up with potential offramps to end this. josh, i don t know if folks have thought through the equation of upwards of 800,000 federal workers having to choose gasoline or health care starting next week, folks who for no fault of their own live paycheck to paycheck