do then? will they gave that base the impeachment push it wants? or will they say to that base we want him out to, and the way to do it is through the election next year? it s a dilemma that hasn t come to a head for demsz democrats yet, but in 2019 it may very well. tonight donald trump threatens a government shutdown lasting months or years if need be. he says he could try to order his wall to be built, although democrats and the constitution may differ. robert mueller lays out the groundwork for even more. his grand jury has been extended by a judge. tonight we ll talk about the consequences. and speaking of the russia matter, something the president said just days ago seeming to endorse the soviet invasion of afghanistan decades ago, seeming to take the russian line and rewriting history. tonight we ll talk about why federal investigators might be replaying that televised moment as the 11th hour gets under way on a friday night.
afghanistan was a defining event in the cold war, making a clear to all serious people the reality of the communist kremlin threat. mr. trump s cracked history can t alter that reality. indeed, several people have noted a piece from new york magazine, writing, the russian government is moving an official resolution, this is present day, defending the soviet invasion of afghanistan, the approval scheduled to take place next month. russians have previously called the invasion a tragic error, but putin s regime which regards the collapse of the soviet union is systematically rehabilitating various soviet crimes. the author of the article linked to this op-ed from a russian dissident who wrote about the resolution just last month. well, with us for more tonight, general barry mccaffrey, retired u.s. army four star general.
or the famous james bond baddy victor boot who first connected with military intelligence here in russia. famed arms dealer and money launderer who was arrested in seecht asia and is now languishing in a u.s. prison, strongly believed to be high on the list of somebody that the russians would like to bring home in return for a spy perhaps. but the problem with mr. whelan is he really doesn t fit the profile of a spy. not least because he was dismissed as charged from the u.s. marine corps for larceny which pretty much precludes him as an operator to the intelligence agency. so what is also striking here fredricka is that whilst over the last week donald trump, the u.s. president, has defended the soviet invasion of afghanistan as a reaction against terrorism, that s a fact that is simply wrong, and suggested russia should get more closely involved in afghanistan, he has not come
shutdown of his own making, but cracks are beginning to show from within his own party. the defections of republican senators susan collins of maine and cory gardner of colorado, who already want a deal to reopen the government, were among the headlines the president hoped to distract from in his rose garden performance. perhaps the greater existential threat to presume s presidency is this on russia. the wall street journal writes, we cannot recall a more absurd misstatement of history by an american president. the soviet invasion of afghanistan was a defining event in the cold war, making clear to all serious people the reality of the communist kremlin s threat. mr. trump s cracked history can t alter that reality. here are those offender comments the wall street journal was responding to on russia. the reason russia was in afghanistan was because terrorists were going into russia. they were right to be there. the problem is it was a tough
american president. the soviet union invaded afghanistan with three divisions in december 1979 to prop up a fellow communist government. the soviet invasion of afghanistan was a defining event in the cold war, making a clear to all serious people the reality after the communist kremlin s threat. mr. trump s cracked history can t alter that reality. indeed, several people have noted a piece from new york magazine, the russian government is moving an official resolution, this is present day, defending the soviet invasion of afghanistan, the approval scheduled to take place next month. russians have previously called the invasion a traj acgic errort putin s regime which regards the collapse of the soviet union is systematically rehabilitating various soviet crimes.