Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. The cfo knows. Was there Money Laundering . Is there wire fraud or fraud on Karen Mcdougal . What did she think she was signing . Theres a host of questions and possible crimes that could be charged. I think they are running scared from Michael Cohen. I think also theyre running scared from him because of what has come out about what hes saying about the 2016 Trump Tower Meeting with also goes a long way, if true, in helping to put trump in a conspiracy with the russians. Its important to note sort of one of the main take aways. Because Rudy Giuliani did address that. And he suddenly says that trump, it wasnt that he didnt know the Trump Tower Meeting took place. Its that trump wasnt there. We already knew that President Trump was never at that Trump Tower Meeting. The issue always that he absolutely had no knowledge of it. Now Rudy Giuliani
technology. part of it has to do with greed on the part of the corporations. so we re actually no place. and for the average worker it s not just wages. it s that interest rates are rising. inflation. you have got a variety of things that are making it more difficult to live day-to-day than it is to make it easier. stan, we have 30 seconds. the president tweeted about a shutdown again. a lot of people ignore it when he tweets about it. talk to me about the likelihood of a shutdown. we ve heard it talked about in the last 24 hours. thank you for asking. i think the chances of a shutdown are 60%. nothing that s happened over the last week, including the president s meeting with paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. and this tweet will change that. the president is going to look at this as his last-ditch effort to get money for his wall if he sees a democratic wave coming. so it s at least 60% at this point. wow! stan, good to see you as always. people should read this blog the budget guy
vice president stan colander intaking a totally different look at this. a budget expert. in fact, twitter handle, the budget guy, right? @thebudgetguy. say this thing goes the way it goes based on assumptions. when you do a budget assume how fast the economy is growing and congress uses a baseline to understand that. what the president is arguing is that we should use dynamic scores. take into account what he says the economy is going to do as a result of the stimulus of cutting taxes, and then these tax cuts pay for themselves. tell me, explain that better for me. does the word nonsense come to mind? it did. first of all, the joint tax committee, the congressional budget office already used this. steve mnuchin in treasury is saying we want more dynamic scoring and think growth will be higher. i don t know a reputable
the republicans now, of course, there are a lot of reasonable republicans who would be willing to discuss these things and negotiate. but most republicans, even the moderate ones, live in abject terror of a right wing primary challenge, so they re not free to really stand on their values. and the truth is, you know, as you mentioned, you know whether it s in the gym or the lobby or in the lunch room, there are good guys on that side of the aisle, but you re not seeing much courage, because, you know, the koch brothers are an even bigger threat to moderate republicans than they are democrats. yeah, and it s telling that mall ryan, the budget guy, is probably they re not even going to release a budget this year because of fear of what it might do to the party s base, and intraparty warfare. if we re talking when liabilities here, congressman ellison, let me talk to you about the latest poll numbers we have out today. the nbc news/ wall street journal poll that shows the president
it s something you never want to encounter. for more of the inside story, visit shinglesinfo.com anna: we hope you re doing well. it is 8:00 o clock on the dot. today is tuesday, march 19. i m anna kooiman. the white house on damage control after hillary clinton gets hacked. her e-mails on benghazi headed to congress. the latest on this development straight ahead. steve: meanwhile, it s taxes versus entitlements on capitol hill today. which one is better for your wallet? congressman paul ryan, the budget guy, will be here live to explain his vision for america s future. brian: he s the budget guy. the main stream media is shocked. they can t believe that tv show about the bible could have a divine following. what s all the buzz about this bible thing?