While the House Freedom caucus is making radical demands and treating this like a political stunt, that saturday night deadline very real in terms of the harm it can cause for Hundreds Of Thousands of americans. I am old enough to remember the last time that the Government Shutdown because republicans wanted something ridiculous. It was right around christmas of 2018. The federal government shut down because President Trump demanded funding for a border wall that he never ended up finishing. And on capitol hill, it was a spectacle. But for 80,000 Government Workers, these antics and 35 days without a paycheck. That new life for ships enter in Capitol Heights its opening its doors to furloughed workers, providing donating food from Grocery Stores and church members. Im with the Department Of Commerce and yeah, four weeks, no check. Many of the folks in this line have worked for the federal government for decades. 30 something years. And dont know what it is like to go without a check. T
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Manafort and its clear in the attempt by the defense to establish reasonable doubt. In The Big Picture its important to say that prosecutors putting on their case now are trying to delve into what they called the extravagant lifestyle of paul manafo manafort. They say he parked money in Offshore Banks and evaded taxes. Evade it had Internal Revenue service so today we expect to hear more of the deep dive into how u. S. Political consultants of both parties were hired to work for ukraine. We expect on the stand today among others daniel rayban. The first witness was another Democratic Political consultant, tad devine, the chief strategist for the democratic president ial candidate bernie sanders. Also on the stand, an fbi agent who is expected to go through the nuts and bolts of what the fbi learned. The rocket docket. Another big day. Joining me now, Crime And Justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz and former fed
rosenstein should be fired. in fact he should have been fired months ago. we really didn t need a bombshell the new york times report outlining memos from 2017 to tell us that this guy probably didn t have the best intentions when he took his post. there was a reason that congress have put together articles of impeachment. we knew that something was up when the inspector general reports came out from the doj. so of course the president is well within his right to fire rod rosenstein but i don t think that s the question, ed. the question is what is jeff sessions going to do about this? this is his number two, this is his guy. it occurred under his watch. this is his department. so what is jeff sessions going to do? well, boyd, that s a good question which is that it seems to a lot of republicans, starting with the president himself, that jeff sessions has been asleep at the switch. yeah. and i think for both secretary sessions and for rosenstein, i think this is much more a quest
crickets that we re hearing from the republican side in terms of passing legislation to protect against their proliferation. these guns require no background checks. they re undetectable. they re untraceable. they re going to be a gift to every terrorist, every criminal in the united states and around the world because this is the internet. it s global and this white house beginning with secretary pompeo, secretary sessions have given a green light and donald trump is going along with it. he has a chance to issue an executive order to tell his administration to reverse position and he has not done it, we have to say to these people that we won t allow them to do it. we re at the dawn of the era. we have to put the lid on the pandora s box and not allow it to become an epidemic on every single street in our country. ed markey, appreciate you
deny. he doesn t deny it. we see the white house s reaction to this. basically confirmation. a more unnamed white house sources confirming that this happened. some saying they firmly believe that tillerson did say this. even though they with respect in the room. and that s sort of suggests there s an atmosphere there in the trump administration where it s not surprising and ultimately not surprising that a secretary would call the president a moron. i don t think rex tillerson wanted to be secretary of state from the day he was confirmed and asked by the president to be secretary of state. i think he thought it was his duh toy do. he s made common cause with secretary mattis and nonetheless this is a man unhappy. he doesn t have a staff. he has only a small group of people he holds close to him, a loner and very interesting. when secretary sessions was being humiliated by the president of the united states, you had many people come to his defense. even democrats who didn t vote