evening that one piece of information he could give about this filing is that meeting happened in january or february of 2017. so apparently after the ewlekz. nevertheless it was clearly a topic they re asking about. sglrsz well, it appears it has something to do with a quote ukrainian peace deal. the idea that michael cohen pass to michael flynn or his office, some plan to lift sanctions on the russians. if he s meeting in madrid to do that, that s interesting? and we don t know if it s connected to the madrid. he lied about madrid, peace and polling data. what we have been told today is a huge new piece of information. yeah. also again why is he lying even after he s cooperating with them and we should note the
interested in the wall, border security. he s interested in a talking point to rally his base. so he has shown no interest in like sitting down and actually doing a negotiation and finding a path forward, even when we offered him $25 billion inboarder security over 10 years, he blew up the deal. and here s a talking point about the policy to punish all the employees. can you good faith negotiate the answer is it s very hard to. it s been very difficult to do
else because of his idiotic promise that he s broken to get mexico to build a wall for him. the first two years of the trump administration which had republican majorities in both houses. can was there any motion by mitch mcconnell to pass a wall bill? he evaded the filibuster. it s a funding question i think they could have got in under reconciliation? that s a great question. they used reconciliation to try to destroy obamacare, that was their priority. i learned something valuable. i was part of a bipartisan team that really presented to the president a bipartisan proposal last february. border security done right and in the amount the president asked dung right to protect dreamers and the president blew up the deal. well, he asked for both halves of it. what i concluded is he s not
any kind of negotiation because it s unclear whether the president will stick. we thought he was going to accept the deal in february and he blew it up. we ehad a deal in december or so we thought. it and president trump blew it up. and all we re asking our senate colleagues oo do is vote for exactly what you voted for three weeks ago and it shows how afraid they are of the president that they re hiding under the desk. thank you very much. joining me is former republican straltgist, steve schmidt. aing is issal person to tell you what the heck the thing is that government is now shut down over. do you understand what that is? of course not. it s an absurdity. and the entire premise that trump is going to address the nation to persuade the country
contention from manafort s team is not that those things didn t happen. they re just saying he forgot, basically. that s exactly right. they re definitely saying yes, yes all those things did happen. he just forgot about them. his memory was fuzzy and after being shown documents he was immediately forthcoming about them. i ve been to madrid once. back to tonight s oval office address, donald trump may be inventing a national security crisis but there is a humanitarian crisis one being exacerbate as women and children come to seek asylum. the daily beast canceled a trip because of the government shutdown. they were supposed to use that tripe figure out how to better deal with it. and people applying for asylum