that is the beginning of a great debate. and, another presidential promise broken. have you, my friends, been foxconn d? the argument for that ahead. what do you say? let s get after it. i d like to say, well, it can t be, but you never know these days. did the president undermine the intelligence chief simply because they disagreed with him? cnn s sources say the president seethed this morning as he watched tv coverage of his intel chiefs contradicting him on capitol hill. at one point, we re told, he singled out his director of national intelligence, dan coats, a man he put there, singling out by name, appearing to be more frustrated with the graphics at the bottom of the screen than the actual assessments delivered by the group yesterday to the senate intel committee. more to come on that. that raging tweet that he put out about it. but first, we now know the russians are trying to interfere with mueller s interference investigation. talk about irony.
rmens have democrats passing a bill on capitol hill to keep the government running until february 8th. question is, can they reach a deal to avert another showdown in 17 days. this was the first shutdown ever when one party is in control of both congress and the white house. as you might have noticed, there s some gop in-fighting. over the weekend, republican senator lindsey graham wasn t shy at blaming at laying some of the blame on the trump white house, singling out white house adviser stephen miller. here s what he said. the reason we yanked these things back is because mr. miller, i have known him for a long time, i know he s passionate, i know he s an early supporter of the president but i will just tell you his view of immigration has never been in the mainstream of the senate and i think we are never going to get there as long as we embrace concepts that cannot possibly get 60 votes. white house press secretary sarah sanders is pushing back on that telling cnn quote, step
this, singling out the salacious material. now we ve risen in his esteem because of that and wants to thank us and congratulate us for doing our jobs. so you don t want the pat on the head. no, i don t. tomorrow there could be a report that nbc comes out with that he does not like. okay. and he will call it fake news regardless of whether it is scurrilous or regardless of whether it is disinformation. he s picking and choosing. gabe, you cover the media and i think the new term, it s an easy one to reach for if you want to trash somebody, fake news. there s a difference. why don t you delineate it? bernstein got a couple stories wrong, bringing down the nixon administration, something about what was actually said at a grand jury, what they thought was going to be said, you know what i mean? yeah. so mistakes are made even when there s a 9 o%, the 95% probability that you re right. assumptions are sometimes made. cnm made an assessment this was handed to trump. it wa
reporter: by singling out marco rubio, it is a sign the clinton campaign has their eye on him. hillary clinton again and again asked about trump, says his comments have no place in the presidential campaign. he is not a serious contender. he is simply enjoying this entertainment. now she is finally weighing in. we will see what the other candidates plan to do as the trump campaign continues along in the 2016 season. thank you, jeff. donald trump will get his chance to respond to hillary clinton s comments at 7:00. rick perry has stopped paying his staff in south carolina. perry s campaign chairman in the state says for now everyone is working in a volunteer capacity. perry says he remains committed to working for the nomination. new york democratic senator
to his wedding. now he s running for president, it s more troubling. reporter: christine, she took every opportunity to paint this republican field with a broad brush of donald trump. she singled out marco rubio. she said his abortion comments last week were out of touch and out of date. by singling out marco rubio, it is a sign her campaign has an eye on him. when asked about donald trump, his comments have no place in this presidential campaign. he is not a serious contender. he is simply enjoying the entertainment. she is weighing in. we will see what the donald trump campaign continues along. christine. jeff, thanks for that. donald trump will get his chance to respond to clinton s comments in a few hours. he will be interviewed live on new day. rick perry s campaign could be in trouble.