sometimes it s not as out in the open. sometimes it s more like the wacky yes california thing. putin as the patron of a charity funding an organization, a conference and sething that looks like it s otherwise a quirky facebook page or side bar human interest story in american politics ends up operating out of real free real estate in miss moscow running a fake embassy. another way that putin gets his way and spreads his influence and uses his money is through the oligarch system which basically allows putin to create proxies all over russia and increasingly all over the world. if you are a russian in putin s favor, or he wants to co-opt you for his purposes, the typical pattern would be for him to direct resources your way. to make state assets available for you. that s why we have like a russian fertilizer oligarch and a russian aluminum oligarch. these guys didn t work their way
the reince priebus the chief of staff has been clear explicit funding for the wall is not that possible, to keep the government open, you need democratic votes. reince talking in that interview was basically saying, give us sething we canall a victory. that s all we want. we don t actually need funding for the wall, we know we re not going to get it, just give us something we can call a victory. this is the president who came out of the branding world, the marketing world. for these white house aids, they re limiting these two realities. when they deal with the president, they know he wants to make a sell to his base he s moving forward and getting things done. they know on capitol hill he can only do so much. you ve been a great reporter for many years, and here is my question for you: what does it mean to have these big blustery ultimatums happen and not result in them being seen through in terms of what the president s word means on capitol hill about big legislative initiativ
because they ve got something for boat. red meat for both. the essential health benefits which are going to stay intact, however, the state waiver. so the good news would be that it passes in the house and goes to t senate wheou ll see more debate. the bi will change a little more and they can show sething in progress. so the compromise between the two house factions might happen this week. none of this is going to matter if they don t have the votes. this is a unified congress that we re looking at and they still can t manage to avoid a debacle. kerstin hagland and david burstein, thank you for joining us. that wraps it up for this hour. stay with us for much more news in our next hour. my colleague yasmin vossoughian picks things up right after the break including the latest on global marches taking place today on earth day in support of science. way to say this. it s over.
collected in terms of sur veiling trump people talking with russian intelligence operatives? is that how he learned that was going on? did the cia director believe as reported in the new york times that what he had was evidence not just that the russians were attacking our election but that trump campaign was helping with the russian attack somehow? this would be an excellent time to hear john brennan answer questions like that, especially because i m not basing this on any classified information. all i have access to is open source information. and all of this stuff has now been reported in newspapers, and he can now be asked about it in a nonclassified context based on this open source reporting we can all read. he can answer these questions for us. if he were asked about it in a puck hearing which has sething to do with the fact the house intelligence committee canceled the public hearing. this afternoon cnn added their own corroboration to this story citing u.s. congressional and
check this out. you want to hea sething terrible? yeah. so i had dinner with lorne michaels, the writer of saturday night live, and he came up with stategery. and i said, wait, i said stategery. did it bother you, the guys imitating you, did it bother you? no. i love humor. the best humor is when you make fun of yourself. well, tell that to the president. words of wisdom there. still ahead, an nfl player s protest comes to an end. a hail mary buzzer beater. and an incredible one-handed catch. you don t want to miss that. sports is next. let s take a trp to la plata, colombia. this is boris calvo. that s pepe.