a country of rule, of law, where prosecutions, criminal prosecutions are decided on the merits without political influence. this throws an monkey wrench into it. in the eyes of the chinese, they believe the arrest and indictment of the cfo of huawei was politically motivated. we need to keep those things separate. at the same time, the deadline, the threat of new tariffs on march 1st by the president, is that the way to go about it in negotiating with the chinese? everyone agrees they ve done terrible things for decades in terms of trade and blocking access to our markets, but is the white house taking the right approach? i ve never really agreed with the approach the white house has taken all along, but nonetheless we are where we are. let s hope that the two sides understanding of the economies of both countries and the entire world will hang on the results of these negotiations. let s just hope that real progress is made.
california, let s move it to arizona, let s move it to texas and, you know, it will be a very interesting statement. about nancy, so in california, they wanted the wall built in san diego so badly and we built it. and probably i should have waited because as soon as it was finished they started screaming, we don t want a wall, we don t want a wall. but they wanted the wall so badly. by the way, it worked. nobody s getting through. but the minute it was built, they started saying, we don t want a wall. without a wall it doesn t work. it s very simple. i mean, i m not saying this as a republican. i m not saying it as anything other than a fact stater. without a wall it just doesn t work. yes. mr. president, after listening to the hardship from many federal government workers as well as those contractors and who relied on the federal government, employees finances
knows anything about national security believes about donald trump. he is not trying to understand the complexities of this world. he just continues to use his gut when he formulates our policies. one of the things i want to ask you about, his criticism of the fbi, but also the fact that he takes his intelligence briefing, this afternoon s is scheduled after 2:00 in the afternoon. have you ever known a president of the united states, except during busy moments of crisis, to routinely get briefed as late in the day as he does, after 11:00, just about every day, not wanting to start the day by learning what s happening around the world? my experience with the presidents i worked for, and i knew four of them very closely, they would start off their day with the national security briefing, the session in the oval office, because they wanted to understand exactly what were the threats as well as the opportunities for u.s. national security. but to put it off, if there s not a good reaso
it s going to go back several years. and the amount of evidence here, they say, means that discovery will take so long that they are waiving the speedy trial. they say the court should exclude them from the 70-day speedy trial period because that is in the best interests of finding justice in this case. so two things. one, they ve got a lot on roger stone. and second, this trial isn t going to be a fast one. and the other thing is, that explains, mimi and clint, exactly why that arrest was done the way it was, because they were also executing a subpoena, seizing materials that they feared clearly could have been destroyed if they had arranged a different kind of arrest. julia? yes, yes, that is right. if you think about it, roger stone has said that they sent, you know, way too many people to his house, there were 20-some-odd agents. but that s the way this is done. when you have to secure a house, send people in, you have
telling the daily caller, i was going to veto the omnibus bill and paul told me in the strongest of language, please don t do that, we ll get you the wall. i said, i hope you mean that because i don t like this bill. the president adding, quote, and then he went lame duck and once he went lame duck it was really just an exercise in waving to people and power was gone so i was very disappointed. joining me now, msnbc political analyst fill phillip rucker, washington post washington chief. the president is saying what he believes caused it. that s right, andrea, the president is looking for a scapegoat for why there s no border wall funding for congress. the president s party controlled congress for the last two years and he was unable to secure wall funding. it s convenient for trump to blame paul ryan who is of course no longer in congress, no longer the house speaker, and he can