pay for it but a lot of his base did. when we realize that mexico is not paying for it, the president does need to follow through on this. this is a key pillar of how he s elected as president and how he runs as administration. he met earlier with key senators and he told them. i spoke with them. look, i want to go under $5 billion if we need to. right now i need to stay firm on that and show and come from a position of strengths. he won t have quite the bargaining power. right now he s standing firm on that. okay. all right. so you said short term paying for long-term gain. right. because he wants to have a negotiating chip to work with in order to get the funding that he wants. in the long-term he feels as though this will pay off from those standpoints. so the government is shutdown, january 3rd, with the new congress coming back.
house and can t go to mar-a-lago. he was planning to go to mar-a-lago for more than two weeks, i think. i am sure he s missing his friends and family there right now. will the president be blamed for this shutdown? absolutely. i want to push back a bit on brian and say that i do think that this shutdown could have long-term consequences for %-p who last week set out this moment as a huge inflection point for presidency he s on the record to say this is my last opportunity to get the wall funded and fulfill my promise to the american people. again, if he does not and the base revolts, that s based on a promise that trump set up himself. i spoken to an administration official, don, who was on the campaign told me today he almost regrets supporting the president because so much of his desire to
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is going to play out, but there s no reason why that testimony shouldn t be public. it s critical the american people hear first-hand what people have to say rather than hear from people like me or my republican counterparts what they think they heard in the room. though it can t always become then more theater than substance, but still, as a member of the media, we always welcome it being in public view. republicans say, though, about the cohen guilty plea and the sentencing, what i have heard is they re basically, they don t care because they say he s an admitted liar so they don t care what he has to say. they don t trust what he has to say. can you trust what he says when he comes before you committee again? well, the question around a guy like michael cohen, first of all, he pled guilty to lying. so he doesn t really have any incentive to lie anymore. but yes, his credibility is somewhat damaged. what s sad about what you say is, you know, we re at a point here in this buildin
we are in a different territory. it is important not to forget the story. the president said this never happened. on air force one. then it was if it happened, i didn t know. now it is it happened and it was a simple personal transaction. reminder here, the truth has been missing from the very beginning of the story. i think that is right. it goes to the fact that for the president, at least as of now, this is a political problem for him and not legal problem. the justice department said you cannot indict a sitting president. his danger here is what the congress does with this information. we have democrats talking about this is potentially an impeachable offense. that doesn t mean they will move forward with impeachment next year. me and my colleagues on the hill say this doesn t have anything to do with russia collusion or they say cohen is a liar and known liar. as a result of that, they don t trust what he is saying even if