welcome back. thanks for joining us. i m morgan radford. president trump woke up to more legal woes. according to the new york daily news, federal and state investigators are collecting evidence from the president s new jersey golf club and they re trying to figure out whether it violated immigration laws by allegedly providing fake green cards to undocumented immigrants that work there. let s bring in arianna burg and guy lewis. what are the possibility that the president actually knew about this? what are the legal implications if, in fact, he did? morgan, i think it s probably unlikely that the president himself actually knew about it, at least i m not seeing any evidence that the president was involved in it or knew about it. however, that doesn t mean that it s a problem that it s not a problem, that it s not a
weak, folding, gave in to the democrats easily when he was willing to sign off on the funding throughout the wall. he reversed course and said, no, you know what, i am going to shut down the government and i am going to get the funding. the problem is, we don t know what the meme is going to be and what did they declare victory on? is it a billion dollars worth of funding? doesn t seem like enough. in one of the original bills it s clear that democrats are not going to give the sort of $5.6 billion of funding that was in the house bill and so the white house is sort of floated $2.5 billion but i think we have to wait and see from the democratic side what they re going to counter with. are they going to insist on different kind of border security protections? immigration overhaul? are they going to ask for redefining of visas for loosening up of terms filing for asylum? there s lots of different pieces that will come into play. different ways to do it. different ways to do it. we ha
is this a smoking gun? it could be. if nothing else, it is a link between paul manafort and the russian oligarch who is himself a link directly to the russian government. and what it means is at best, at best for trump, this is a situation where trump knew nothing about it, but paul manafort may have agreed to provide intel on the american campaign to russians in an effort to work off some of his astronomical debt, which ran in the millions of dollars. so the question arises, what kind of information is worth writing off a debt of millions of dollars? not only what kind of information, but is this a quid pro quo. is this proof, for example, that manafort may have actually used his role in the trump campaign to curry favor with russia? well, it certainly smells like it, doesn t it?
seen thr what does the future of this mueller investigation look like? it is going to be a busy year. probably soon we will have indictments of stone and corsi. we re getting close to decisions about don jr. both on the obstruction in the russian case and obstruction in the southern district of new york case. we have the sentencing of manafort and clinton. there is so much that will be a very busy year. but upcoming is the stone and corsi indictments. but it doesn t stop there because now we have questions, for example, about this new jersey golf course. danny, walk us through that. basically, there are reports that the fbi and government have investigated reports of undocumented workers working at the trump golf course in new jersey. what a political irony for the president who promised to attack illegal immigration. but from a legal perspective, it is even thornier for the president if you violated
you mentioned mitch mcconnell. jay, if the house and senate agrees to a deal that does not include border wall funding, who among republicans can convince the president to sign it? that remains to be seen. he doesn t have a lot of people who can sway him when he s dug in on an issue. kellyanne conway said this morning she believed the president would veto any bill that came to him that did not include sufficient border wall funding. so he remains committed to that idea, vetoing anything that doesn t include the right amount of funding which means we really are at an impasse. it s hard to imagine how we get out of this frankly because it is really popular with the president s base. he is really committed to this. he really wants this win. democrats are really entrenched to say, no, we are not going to give you this money and we are not going to give you that win. that really appeases their base. i think it s going to be a hard thing to get out of and figure out how to open up the go