in the house. speaker paul ryan tonight had a closed door conference meeting with house republicans where a lot of republicans and a lot of senior aides came out of that meeting saying, things are pretty good. we think we can get this four-week spending bill done. we think we can get the majority to move this through, kick this over to the senate. now with this group of conservatives meeting behind closed doors, deciding that they are not in support of this, they re back to square one. right now, they need to figure out a pathway forward, or for republicans who don t want to deal with the daca issue now, who have made very clear that the bipartisan deal that s on the table right now is not sufficient, the deal the president himself rejected, if they can t pass a spending bill on their own in the house, they don t have a plan right now. so, obviously, there s a lot of talks right now in terms of how this is actually going to progress. but don, this all happened just within the last thre
his language and calls, says what he sees, this is the downside. and there is a downside. bret: let s not say that presidents haven t said bad words in the oval office. it seems like there s a disconnect. i understand donald trump gets the criticism a lot more than others perhaps but and this was in the big picture the wrong thing to say, but where is the fallout? different euro, different president. he takes a lot more heat. i found it interesting there s been reporting that this was premeditated on his part. he had a focus group with his buddies and he wanted to say it. i have found it interesting it leaked as quickly as it did. you had dick durbin verify it happen. suggest a lot of ulterior motives at play. perhaps to create this divide
we don t know yet. we ll try to find out. reporting-wise, in terms of who, if anyone, he consulted before tweeting this. but that is one of the unknowns of the president s twitter account and one of the things he loves so much about it, he feels it keeps america s allies and adversaries alike on their toes. he has i think he tweeted in the last few days, sometime in the recent past. there s this clip of bill clinton when he was president in 1993 publicly making a threat to north korea, basically we have the ability to wipe you out, so don t mess with us. i think the message turnover was trying to send was,fy send a tweet like i just sent, it is not the message is not necessarily one that presidents haven t delivered in the past. that doesn t make it okay today. and i think that what i was trying to say is not that president trump is this person. i agree with you, that this is this person, we should be expect these kinds of tweets from him. i don t think that we should normali
actually obtained and reviewed many of george papadopoulos e-mails, with the campaign and with his russian contacts. and we haven t found any evidence that he, at least in e-mails, did tell anybody in the campaign. now, if he did, that s very significant, of course. and we can assume that bob mueller knows the answer to that. right, because it seems there s if you play this out a little bit, there s a key issue here, a key question, i guess, that s kind of raised by this, of you know, you have donald trump out there publicly in the summer of 2016, saying, hey, russia, if you re listening, would love to get these 33,000 e-mails. that seemed to be on his mind there. is this a situation where the trump folks are getting some scuttlebutt from europe? some scuttlebutt that russia s got something and trump s sort of broadly encouraging that without knowing? or is this an indication that some kind of contact was made here, that established some kind of relationship? seems like that tha
this is the tone. how does that affect when the president of the united states is talking that way, how does that affect the united states standing in this world? sure. so again, as you noted, the most inflammatory comments have been disputed by other people who were in the meeting as well. so that is important to note in addition to the official comments from the white house. but i think in terms of tone overall 2016 was a wake-up call to the political establishment chamber of commerce conservatives republicans who were taking this unfettered approach to immigration. we need to be more like canada and i think that s what senator tom cotton is doing as well, to say it should be merit-based but i m asking about the tone here. sure. the first clip we played there coming in is november 1st. he s president of the united states. again, we can take the new york times one aside here. the overall tone when he talks about immigration is not hey, let s consider this proposal from cot