one that has not been ratified yet and has absolutely no provision to spend money on a wall. if you want to know the truth about where the money for the wall is coming from, it is quite simple. you. white house aide mercedes schlapp admitted that in an interview with cnn s jim sciutto. the fact is at the end of the day, taxpayers are going to pay for this wall. why does he continue to mislead on that issue? let me tell you, when you look at the trade deal, the trade deals are going to bring more jobs back to america. it s bringing more business back to america and it s also going to keep our wages up. so this trade deal, in effect, does help pay for this border security. let me it doesn t pay for it. tell you something, it s taxpayers pay for it. yes. you know what else taxpayers are paying for? the financial burden of this illegal immigration. president has created this manufactured crisis. forced the government shutdown that s deprived, and is depriving 800,000 wo
that is the question because the situation on the border, to the extent that it s at all different from a year ago, or 18 months ago, it s different simply because of things that trump has made happen in recent weeks by kind of bringing everything to a standstill. republicans had control of both chambers of congress for two years. he made this promise before he ever got into office on the campaign trail. what happened over those two years? he didn t get this done. i m kind of glad he didn t get it done because i think it s silly policy. now he feels the clock ticking and kind of come to head now because certain members of his base, certain people in particular, ann coulter, et cetera, have decided right now to hold his feet to the fire. feeling pressure from the mueller investigation. which, i mean, as we learned today, is far-reaching, carrie. cnn is learning that investigators have focused on conflicting public statements by trump, and his team that could be seen as an effort to
reports was nothing but a kn pneunomic devirks way ce, way t him on message during the campaign. now he s holding the government hostage and that word, crisis, it s an important one. sources tell cnn white house lawyers have advised team trump to use the word as often as they can sto they can point to it later in court to defend a national emergency declaration. and team trump seems to be listening. this is a crisis. a crisis on our southern border. this is a humanitarian crisis. humanitarian crisis at the border. we have a national crisis. undeniable crisis at our southern border. a crisis of the heart. we ishave a national crisis. a crisis of the soul. it is a crisis. this is a tremendous crisis at the border. saying crisis a whole bunch
president trump s attorney responded to cnn, the cnn report with this. okay? read cnn s article that mueller s gang of angry democrats wants to use the president s public comments as part of an obstruction claim. according to this latest oppressive legal theory, you can t even defend yourself, but who says mueller s team doesn t leak? extremely unethical. carrie, does this give us a clue as to trump s legal defense here? well, rudy giuliani s tweets, i think, tend to be pr as opposed to legal defense. i think there are other lawyers who are really more involved in his legal defense. he seems to be the front person to make the public arguments. him characterizing the mueller investigation and trying to disparage it, i just view it as that, that he s trying to discredit it in the public eye. and so i don t give that any credibility. there has been no information publicly reported throughout the course of the special counsel s investigation indicating that
Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190111:03:50:30 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.