real people across the country. also this morning a new and, frankly, bizarre interview from president trump s lawyer rudy giuliani to the new yorker. it appears the mayor is denying the president had discussions about building a trump tower in moscow all the way through the election after telling several news outlets including cnn that he did. this interview is filled with hedges, reversals and internal contradictions. it s hard to know what the former mayor is saying. joining us now, cnn politics reporter and editor at large chris cilissa and in a moment we are told jeffrey toobin will be joining us. he s a former federal prosecutor. he comes when he s ready. he just breezes in whenever he s ready. you re ready? i am. nice to see you. rudy giuliani has been all over the map. we have effectively illustrated
david, as you know, during a table reading, it s primarily line work. thank you. the point is in the space of four sentences, market, he completely con found and contradicts what he had just said in the previous sentence. some people think it s astronomic but i fi astronomic strategic but i find it hard to believe. what tapes? did the president know about the moscow tower thing? the reason it s important he was beginning to craft policy during that time. it would be important to know if the president had a multi-million dollar deal going on with moscow at the same time? it s important because of the substance at that time and the president s pretty consistent narrative throughout this process, that s not what was happening and weren t discussions of substance going on. i think, alisyn, you have
with no pay. only john berman would do that because he enjoys being on tv so much. i know. other than that, no one should be working without pay. i would crawl through broken glass and then work, just to clarify that. you were talking about who is feeling the pressure, 800,000 federal workers missing their paycheck are feeling the pressure more than donald trump or nancy pelosi. and the president s lawyer, rudy guiliani, who said things over the weekend and walked it back and saying things i don t know where they put him. in general, he s trying to clarify the timeline when the president knew or was discussing the trump tower project in moscow. the most recent thing was give an interview with the new yorker before he was taking a shower not relevant but we are obsessed with that. people talk about the fact it s filled with contradictions.
gregory, cnn political analyst, jeffrey toobin, chief political analyst and margaret, cnn white house analyst. david, thank you as always for your punctuality. do you feel, david, we are any closer today to ending this shutdown. the president did make a proposal on saturday, democrats rejected it out of hand and said this isn t a place to start, but is this something that should be discussed? i think we are getting closer because they re getting into a legislative process. it may be a dead-end but there is some room for negotiation here obviously. one, they could continue down the path of negotiation only if the president reopens the government, once they have legislation in place. you can obviously see a negotiation around how much border wall funding and how much of an extension for the dreamers, permanent or something less. those are the outlines here. remember, the contours of this bill were available last year at
there have to be these agencies re-opening so people can go back to work and so we can avoid the harm to the economy. no negotiations before the government reopens? there have been negotiations but there will be no successful negotiations until the government reopens. the wall street journal looks at this and says the speakers unwillingness to negotiate feels mr. trump might get some credit for a bipartisan immigration victory. is that true? i think that s untrue. the reason we re in this dilemma is that the president has made demands and is simply insisting on a vanity project, a campaign promise or applause line, and no president should be allowed to take the nation hostage to achieve a personal triumph. i will note you re the third democratic elected official who s used the word hostage on this show in the last few days,