A trial balloon was seen floating near pittsburgh as the 11th hour gets underway on a thursday night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york and just after 11 00 p. M. East weern time, the government will shut down in less than 24 hours unless there is action to stop it on capitol hill. The house did its part passing a measure to keep the governments lights on for another couple weeks. The senate tonight stands in adjournme adjournment. Later in the broadcast, well look at the chances of them going along with the house. There wont be anything on it tonight. With this deadline looming on this day, 364 of the trump administration, russia remains the biggest thing looming over this Trump White House. And tonight, we have more testimony to tell you about from Glenn Simpson. You recall hes the cofounder of that firm called fusion gps, they are a research and Intelligence Firm put together the now infamous dossier on President Trump and russia. Weve seen alre
Without the donald trump the olympics would have been a total failure. True. True. Might as well say it. Nobody else is going to say it, right . Might as well say it. A little hard to celtics when you think youre going to be nuked. I dont know, looks like a nice guy. I hear he is nice looking. I think im better looking. Personally, i like rick saccone. I think hes handsome. You like me . I think so, right. I like you, too. I love you. All right. He is handsome. Thats a lot to take in and the president kept up the focus on the race today as well. Tweeting out that gop is 50 in recent congressional races hoping a pennsylvania win will continue to streak. A streak that we should note is nonexistent as simple look of a map of congressional races, clearly shows. I dont know if the president got that same map we do. But we want to break down a lot for you this hour. To do that lets start with the trump referendum. How this race for small district may not exist at this Time Next Year became m
Bit of, shall we say, uncertainness about the whole thing. But the white house does continue to drive a continuing resolution to keep the government open. They hope that this will be until february 16th. Legislative Affairs Director mark short of the white house drive way just a short time ago saying he is confidence that he can get the vote in the house. The senate, though, is another question. They need ten democrats to pass the bill in the senate because senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina looks like hes going to vote against it. A democrat activist group is keeping track of democrats who are voting against this bill. Theyre taking names and short put the odds of it passing in the senate at 50 50. What the white house is throwing its support behind, six years of funding for the state Childrens Health insurance program, delays in obamacare taxes on health insurer, medical devices and cadillac plans and keep the government open through february 16th. The president didnt quite see
Good morning, everybody. We again with new reports of team trump possibly trying to silence Stormy Daniels. Buzz feed was the first to report that Donald Trumps lawyers are considering filing an injunction to keep the 60 minutes interview from airing on march 18th. There has been no. Response from cbs nor from the president s legal team on that matter. But in a brief interview with the Washington Post Stormy Daniels said, all i can say is it was never going to air tonight. I guess well see what happens. This comes as nbc news has learned that Michael Cohen used his business email to arrange the personal funds for the payment and neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump Campaign reimbursed him for that payment. Cohen now tells nbc news that he uses his trump email for personal and Business Communications and that the funds were transferred from his home equity line. Here is cliffords lawyer talking to nbcs andrea mitchell. Where do you think the money came from, do you think it came
Allies as many urge President Trump to trim down his proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Bill well speak with kellyanne in studio but first we begin with White House Correspondent john on the white house lawn. Reporter you should be here today because theres more going on. First it was on and off then likely and now the president looks like he made it official in a tweet saying quote, looking forward to 3 30 p. M. Meeting at the white house. We have to protect our industry and have to show cooperation and treat friends fairly. Were expect to signed a document on aluminum and steel, at this hour, you can talk to Kellyanne Conway on this, there could be exclusions for closest allies for National Security purpose. For example, a British Company in england produces steel for component we use in the columbia Class Nuclear submarines and there would be a window for canada and mexico to avoid tariffs if they agree to a new nafta deal. Heres Peter Navarro. In 15 to 30 days the tari