when she takes over? not at all. certainly between now and january 3rd, there s no incentive for the democrats to pudge at all. there s no daylight between the democrats in the senate and the house regardless of the fact that the president and the white house want to make it seem that way. look, i think mike is right. at the end of the day, this is a public releases effort and both sides are trying to you know, spin the ultimate outcome of who gets blamed for it this. one of the things that s characterized this white house, mike talked about president trump as a negotiator. one of the problems that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have had with this president and this white house is not knowing who speaks for the white house and what the message is on the other side. so you have an example of that will this the last couple days where yesterday you had sarah sanders putting out a statement that was very tough and saying we re not going to budge on border security but the whole sta
under particular scrutiny, a meeting during the transition on december 1st, 2016 puts trump s son-in-law jared kushner and general michael flynn, his soon to be national security adviser, together in a room at trump tower with a russian ambassador who has long been considered a spy. kushner asked then russian ambassador sergey kislyak about establishing secure lines of communication with moscow, what some have called a back channel. the record and documents i have voluntarily provided will show that all of my actions were proper and occurred in the normal course of events of a very unique campaign. reporter: kushner told a congressional committee that he asked if they had an existing communications channel at his embassy we could use where they would be comfortable transmitting the information they wanted to relay to general flynn. later in december, jared kushner and another questionable meeting. this time with russian banker sergei gore cough who also had ties to russian presiden
there s no easy way that it ends. one possibility is that president trump could simple political declare that the wall is already being built and declare that he doesn t need the money in the first place and sort of move on. that would be a sort of declared victory and then you can get out of the situation. but look, i think that it s also possible that both sides continue to dig in. there s no obvious negotiation that s going on as kristen just said than we could be here in mid-january heading into february heading towards the state of the union speech with no resolution. from new year s to valentine s day. thanks so much. kirsten powers, mike shields is mike it will sheer. thousands of e-mails will trump s transition team dealing with russia face new heat from the mueller probe? a long time washington insider joins me next. up and down, never side to side, shaquem, you got it? come on stay focused. hard work baby, it gonna pay off.
instead of trying to dodge it and distract by throwing someone like hillary clinton out there. there s been no conclusion on collusion just yet but i appreciate your point. ruben gallego, have a very happy new year. thank you. joining us now, kirsten powerses, mike shields and new york times white house correspondent michael shear. he and kirsten republican cnn political analysts. mike is a cnn political commentator. kirsten, this is a question i asked congressman gallego. what do you make of the president s threats to close the southern border? are these things that he can do? are these threats that we should take seriously or is this just as we suggests at the top just venting at the wall? well, look, he s the president and when he says something, i think we should take it seriously. i think there has been plenty of things people shrugged off he
will be the majority leader he today told cbs news the president s threats are just a trant tum and he needs to come to the fact the president is not a dictator. your reactions to that? the president is a negotiator. he s most comfortable when he s in negotiations. if you read the art of the deal you learn a lot about president trump. that s the sort of place he always wants to be. and shut downs are really messaging wars about a negotiation. you need to negotiate with congress. the government shuts down and and he then it s all about winning a public communications fight. and i used to work for newt gingrich in the 90s. the government shot down for a month that is congress passed a funding bill. the president didn t think it paid enough and he didn t sign it and the government shut down. we have the exact same thing happening. the president wants more funding. he s messaging. tomorrow he will say something else, threaten something else. it s part of the negotiation. only if pen