great basin national park is located, the entire county s population is about 8,000 people, so in the town baker next to the park, about 75% of the residents are park employees, so the restaurants, there are no people eating at the restaurants now. i talked to a friend and she said, we are not going out, we are not buying anything because we don t know how long this is going to last. so that those communities up there are just now starting to realize that this is a huge inconvenience for their businesses. it s like a seventh of the whole county s population. and the ripple affect is what you re describing here. as a contractor, greg, as a contractor, one of the experts watching this space says there s
even his harshish critics on the democratic side said it was a win. it has been very hard to do under any circumstances in the last several years prior to the president, and it got done and he can t just talk about that because instead he is having phone conversations with rush limbaugh to reassure him that he will defund the government if he doesn t get money for a border wall. that s what he is focused on. i want to follow-up on two things you said. number one, you referred to james mattis as a binkie for many republicans in the senate. i enjoyed that. i enjoyed that a lot. i never use that word. i want to note that moment. what it means is that s significant here. another point you were making this could have a ripple affect into the president s survival, quite frankly, and all of this stuff might be connected because republican support may be
responding to what jim was saying. did you see during the campaign what i responded to was that donald trump having a potential business deal would somehow have been a damaging blow to donald trump. given all the damaging blows that donald trump withered through on the campaign with no ripple affect on his publicity, in some way, increasing that, i don t think it would have had impact whatsoever. it does raise the question why would somebody lie about it. as a republican were you uncomfortable that donald trump was always complimenting vladimir putin? did you scratch your head and say, i wonder why he likes vladimir putin so much? well, yes, and potentially
it. it s a terrible thing and certainly would not be a positive, i would not be happy at all. joining me now is cnn senior political reporter, nia-malika henderson, and chief legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. this is as chilling as it gets, the details of what happened after khashoggi went into the consulate. it s complicated, the geopolitics and the ripple affect with iran and yemen and the inner personal complications of the crown prince and the trump family, and jared kushner has been close to the crowned prince who ordered the hit, if that s in fact what happened. this is according to the new
the president s words. brian? it s a double-edged sword. if you first of all, his tweets have been determined to be policy. you have to in some regard report them. number two, not reporting them leads to the argument that we re the fake press and we don t we only report stuff that s unfavorable to the president. you are a damned if you do, damned if you don t. getting information out to the public is essential. whether or not we like or agree with that information, yeah, s e ripple affect in the pond. hopefully, the electorate is informed enough and is educated enough and cared enough about the issues to understand and differentiate between the falsehoods and truth. it s our job to pass information. to go after us let me be clear. he says it s not working. he says what you are describing is a failure. brian, recent history says