the president said go back back to congress on that. when you talk about the narrative, white house officials are telling me, that they thought it was instrucktive at this midday briefing on camera, mark short, the president s liaison to congress, mick mulvaney, they re running point for the president on all of this as you know. they re being pushed by various reporters on the idea that republicans will get the blame for this shutdown because they ve won the white house, won the house laura: i don t think so. mulvaney sticking to the facts, said look, we don t run the senate. we have a majority with 51, but you need 60 votes to pass this. and almost anything. thatth ma might have been lost on some. bottom line, mark short, told reporters a couple of moments ago that they need about 13 or 14 senate democrats to pass this vote this hour, to keep the government open. he said they re not going to get it. laura: they slipped a few in, right? they slipped a few of the more
obama administration was doing with the doj and the fbi. laura: barack obama, in the fall of 2016, i believe, basically, he like poo pooed the idea of any plit tization of the po lit iization of the intel community working against donald trump, he said i guarantee that didn t happen. similar thing said by susan rice and other members of the national security council that, would have had access or requested access to the unmasking of individuals who had been surveilled under the fisa warrant, that was filed and granted. they re saying, this is a republican pipe dream, that you guys, you know, just don t want to answer the real questions about what happened in this with any dealings with trump in russia. they just deny, deny, deny. that s silliness. this investigation has been going on for more than a year i
white house chief of staff and legislative director raised to capitol hill. paul ryan spoke to the president for 30 minutes on the phone after the first tweet. house intelligence chairman devin nunes read aloud the presidents clarifying tweet to reassure members the president was still on board. the press secretary said there was no contradiction in what the president wrote and poo-pooed the notion they had to clean it up. can you tell us why his first tweet sparked a flurry of activity and phone calls between the white house and capitol hill? i m not sure about the flurry of activity. to us, that s a pretty normal day and we are always engaged with members on the hill, members of our staff. that seems pretty standard practice. and a second tweet, president trump also pointed out that he personally directed the fix to the unmasking process.
and i want to play something that aired during the golden globes. take a look. david what was the message that the new york times felt they wanted to get out last night? well, you know, emily and her colleagues did incredible reporting. incredible. absolutely. the kind of insight and understanding and what you get at the times and why you need to pay for it, support it. it all comes with this whole idea of oprah winfrey for president. right? she s poo pooed in the past. gayle, her best friend has said, never, never, never.
negotiate a compromise in conference. they already worked that out a long, long time ago. neil: there had been a rumor this morning quickly debunked by some in congress, the house more to the point, where i don t know if there was any truth to it, that they would just take what the senate came up with and the house would vote yay or nay to expedite it further. they poo-pooed that with a number of representatives. what do you think of that? i don t think that s going to happen. i think that normally the way this works is in a conference is the house that has the narrowest margin, which is the senate, is the one you tend to use their bill as a guide. because it makes sense. paul ryan had a 13-vote margin. this is the senate. it s more narrow. you start with their bill. and you try the biggest compromise that was necessary has been accomplished. that was the one that susan