threatening her shutdown multiple times in recent weeks. the president firing back putting the blame on democrats and doubling down on his border security demands. our great country must have border security. we don t want people coming in that aren t supposed to be here. we want people to come in through a legal process. there s nothing we can do about that because we need the democrats to give us their votes. call it a democrat shutdown, call it whatever you want. heather: allison barber is following this from the white house. reporter: we know who the president had lunch with, dave blanton, they provided a list. based on this list we know now democrats made the guest list. the president would have lunch with vice president mike pence, the incoming chief of staff, mick mulvaney, assistant to the
decision-making process. do you think this will ease concern about the president trying to use the next attorney general as someone who would end the mueller probe given the very close relationship these two men have had over the years? absolutely it will, wolf. and in fact democratic senator leahy today told our team on capitol hill, cnn, that he was happy about this pick, that if the pick goes through, he believes barr would receive support not only from republicans, but also from some democrats. so he doesn t have this baggage that very clearly whitaker, for example, does have that has made republicans and democrats like so nervous about him being in place as the acting attorney general. on the other hand, though, as laura mentioned, they are going to be combing through these lawmakers his past statements, especially relating to the mueller probe, especially relating to the president firing james comey, some of these other
the chief justice said this, we don t have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges, what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. the president came off the golf course on wednesday firing back dismissing the chief justice s point ever view while calling theth circuit very dangerous and unwise. joining me now kelly o donnell and others. kelly, let me start with you down in florida. this is unprecedented. we haven t seen attacks like these between these two branches as we ve seen it in the last 24 hours. reporter: so many of us have been accustomed to the president firing off on twitter or elsewhere. lots of political rivals or targets of the moment. what we have not seen before is
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president trump in an extraordinary public feud tonight with chief justice john roberts. on the eve of thanksgiving, an unprecedented exchange that started earlier in the day when the chief i couldn t sjustice i rebuke for criticizing a member of the federal appeals court as an obama judge. we do not have obama judges, bush judges or clinton judges, he said. what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges. the inspect judiciary is something we should all be thankful. the president firing back on twitter. sorry, chief justice john roberts, but you do indeed have obama judges, and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country. it would be great if the ninth circuit was indeed an independent judiciary. in a second tweet, the president went on to ask why there are so many opposing views on border and safety cases filed there. and why there are a vast number of cases overturned. then he admonished roberts to study the numb