relationship with trump. did this break campaign finance laws? let's go outfront. good evening. outfront tonight, shutdown victory. president trump taking a victory lap as more than 30 democratic senators join all republicans in a vote to end the three-day shutdown. the house voting moments ago to end the impasse. the deal was done in congress and it was done by senators. that's who made the deal. the president was silent. today president trump only issued a brief statement which said in part, quote, i am pleased the democrats in congress have come to their senses and now willing to fund our great military, border patrol, first responders and insurance for vulnerable children. the short term spending deal came after mitch mcconnell, declared his quote, intention. intention to hold a debate on the dreamers in the come weeks. that's it. intention to hold a debate in a few weeks. there's no formal mechanism to repeatedly brought up this three-day bill to keep the government open but to force dedicated negotiations. not two or two and a half weeks with doing nothing and then negotiations. >> you're saying it's only going to negotiate two or three days. that's the point you're making? >> absolutely in was all supposed to be done since october 1st of last year. the republicans were too busy with that health bill trying to destroy health care for some 30 million americans and the tax bill, which plundered the national treasury to deliver a trillion dollars to richest americans. they couldn't compel themselves to deal with the fundamentals of governing. a spending bill addressing children's health care, addressing community health centers and the opioid crisis. >> let's talk about this issue. sarah sanders pointed out that's not only in this continuing resolution but that other things in it are also things that democrats like you care deeply about. here she is. >> i think democrats realize that the position that they have taken was indefensible and they had to focus on first funding our military, protecting border patrol agent, funding vulnerable children through the chip program. these were things that they didn't disagree with. they agreed with everything in the cr. >> she brings up funding vulnerable children. doesn't she have a point? >> our three-day resolution, continuing resolution also had the chip in it. we've been fighting since last august to get this bill on the floor. this was forged and bipartisanship. it should have passed last september instantly. they held it out as a bargaining chip in a shameful practice of holding 800,000 children hostage. >> you're saying that you plooef senat -- believe senator mcconnell because he made this promise to people of his parties. kamala harris told reports she does not believe mcconnell made any real commitment to deal with immigration. do you think she could be right or you truly do trust mcconnell? >> i do not trust him at all. he has promised lindsey graham and susan collins, jeff flake. made promises, commitments that he has not honored. however, realize republicans control the presidency. republicans control the senate. the mcconnell has decided to put the amendment box where we put amendments so they can be brought up on floor. he's decided to put his amendments in and lock the box so no democratic amendment can be considered. that's why we couldn't put up be bipartisan understanding we had with many members of the republican party for consideration. in that type of control we realize our leverage is modest. we do hope to hold mcconnell accountable for this promise but i'm not sure that we will succeed. >> you're being honest here saying your leverage is modest. you don't trust him. let me put it to you straight. the congressional black caucus leader said they're getting their butts kicked. talking about you guys. is he right? >> we wanted to attach the dream act and opioids to a must pass bill that would get to the president's desk. we failed in that effort. now we're on plan b. it did work in 2013. we're going to carry that battle forward. >> thank you. i appreciate you. our senior political analyst is out front. mark, i have to say at first he tried to say the promise was to lindsey graham by mcconnell. he's trying to be optimistic but i thought he was more frank later in the interview. our leverage is modest. i don't know if we'll get anything. he said we're going to hold them accountable. i'm going to throw something out. senate democrats did house democrats a big favor by agreeing to this. allowing house republicans to pass this bill, this cr, this continuing resolution for a couple more weeks. it allows the house democrats, all of them who are up for re-election to take a stand and vote against it. >> that's interesting. i guess it's long term, short term strategy when it comes to the midterm. let me ask you, the president. i played the ad where it's illegal ill grammigrants. the white house is trying to say an outside group did this. hee here he is speaking specifically about dreamers and during the campaign to talk about the tale of two trumps. >> it should be a bipartisan bill. it should be a bill of love, truly should be a bill of love. >> i will immediately terminate the president obama's illegal executive order on immigration. immediately. >> we're talking about dreamers for other people. i want the children that are growing up in the united states to be dreamers also. >> mark, look. you put that together with the ad and you hear senator the murkley saying we don't know which president is going to show up. which president is going to show up? >> who knows. depends what happens tonight. a republican said this to me who is no fan of stephen miller said stephen miller is the last person that whispers this his ear and that's why we're in this problem. republicans are not happy about this. if you look at polls we know that overwhelmingly the majority of americans want the daca issue fixed. they want to take care of these dreamers. there's that small group of hard liner, specifically stephen miller and some cases the chief of staff who are whispering in trump's ear as well as senator tom cotton and that's why he's stuck on this. nobody knows how to negotiate with the president because they don't fwhoe wiknow who will com door. >> are they the ones pushing hard line on immigration and winning? new pressure to release a controversial memo in the russia probe. trump's bragging about low unemployment among african-americans. does he and will he get the credit at the voter box? if you move your old 401(k) to a fidelity ira, we make sure you're in the loop at every step from the moment you decide to move your money to the instant your new retirement account is funded. ♪ oh and at fidelity, you'll see how all your investments are working together. because when you know where you stand, things are just clearer. ♪ just remember what i said about a little bit o' soul ♪ don't wait until february. walk into a jackson hewitt, day or night, and you could get up to $3200. so why wait? 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>> no. we thought the show was going to be the apprentice. it turns out to be who's the boss. i was honored to serve president clinton in the white house. every president has to defer on some issues. say if this was agricultural policies, he has an agriculture study at purdue, i think it would be wise to defer to secretary purdue. this is the president's signature issue and on it he has said many times, that he would sign legislation to regularize the dreamer status and he's flip-flopped because stephen miller, the staff yanks it back. we know who is running the show down there and it's president stephen miller. >> steve. >> well, i would say to that paul as long as we're talking television shows, when you say president stephen miller, i would tell you that's as laughable and fictional as the show barney miller. >> i'm thinking of a purple dinosaur. >> anyone who observes, which is everyone in america, president trump knows whether it was from the apprentice, candidate trump, president trump, knows this is not a man who cedes authority and control. i have the privilege of knowing him personally. the idea he would give up control to a second president or a pseudo president is laughable in its face. what's really going on is the left realizes that they lost in this showdown over the shutdown. what are they trying to do now. they're trying to create a boogeyman in stephen miller. here's the problem. president trump ran unambiguously on a program of controlling the border and reforming our immigration system as candidate. he was elected primarily probably on that basis and now he's following through on it. he may be out of step with the mainstream media. he's not out of step with america. >> i understand you all disagree on the power he has. even republicans like lindsey graham says stephen miller has that power. sometimes it's not reality but perception that matters. stephen miller is getting the same headlines that upset when they applied to steve bannon. president miller shutdown. business insider, report some now referring to miller as president stephen miller. john kelly the chief of staff. how are these headlines for stephen miller and john kelly's future? >> there's some reporting that general kelly is looking for the exit which i would not blame him. he's an american hero and deserves our respect. mr. miller, slightly less of a hero. he's a 32-year-old guy, worked on the hill. that's fine. i never saw steve bannon overruled the president like this. the president sat down. we all saw it on national television. it was remarkable meeting. he sat in the cabinet room. >> tuesday meeting. >> senator dianne feinstein said would you sign a clean daca bill. allow the dreamers to stay with nothing else attached. no strings attached. let me read you what he said. he said yes and then move to phase two which would be come prehencive immigration reform but i think we need to do daca first. that's the president making a deal until steve miller overruled it. it's unprecedented. >> the idea that stephen miller, who i really respect. >> that makes one of us. >> that he's the pup -- >> i said respect steve miller. >> i don't loik like a staff guy overruling the president. >> the idea he's the puppeteer is an absurdity. he's an important voice among many important voices. he has the mandate of american people and changing this country when it comes to the economy. >> yet when it comes to immigration steve miller, not only is being credited by democrats and republicans with having the final word on this, whether you want to say overruled or convincing. he is passionate about immigration. he actually is the only one who has come out and take questions on immigration from the press. here he is in a combative exchange in the press briefing room. >> aren't you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant come sboing into this country i you're telling them you have to speak english. can't people learn how to speak english when they get here? >> first of all, right now it's a requirement to be natural iedsed you have to be english. >> are we just going to bring in people from great britain and australia? >> i am shocked at your statement that you think that only people from great britain and australia would know english. >> sounds like you're trying to engineer the rational and ethnic flow of people into this country. >> that's one of the most outrageous, insulting and foolish things you've said. for you that's really -- the notion that you think this is racist bill is so wrong and so insulting. >> combative to say the least, paul. >> to say the least in that sense i think he's reflecting the president. it's a tragic thing. the majority of americans believe our president is racist in the polling. over 50% thinks he prefers white people to non-white people. why? because he said so. he was in that infamous meeting and he said we need more immigrants from norway and not from unflattering comment countries in africa, the caribbean or central america. when you say you want more white immigrants. that that sense mr. miller is repeating the president's view which is a racist view. >> what's actually racist is telling minorities and i say this as a hispanic the telling minorities at election time we value you and value your vote and forgetting them between. >> we just shut down the government for them. >> for his panic americans. they shut it down for ill leega immigrants. they have done tremendous harm to the economic prosperity of legal hispanic americans. of legal african-americans. what the president is doing is saying america first no matter your creed or color. your economic prosperity -- >> norway first he said. >> it's my first priority. there's nothing racist about it. that's the opposite of racist. it's saying we're not here to exploit you. we're here to improve your lives. that's what president trump has done. >> all right. thank you both. paul you have the first. i appreciate your time. next, republicans pushing harder on that controversial memo alleging fbi wrong doing in the russia probe. why won't they let the fbi see it and respond? 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>> no. they know more about what's in the memo than perhaps anybody else. at this point i think they understand the wrong doing that certainly the memo would highlight. >> now to release the memo the process is this. the house intelligence committee would vote to do that. it would go to the president who would decide whether or not to declassify it. if he does, the memo is public. >> lawmakers are seeing nearly 400 new pages of text messages involving fbi agent that was removed from bob mueller's team, some 50,000 text messages. >> they're saying it shows an effort by the two fbi agents. they were biassed against then candidate trump. it alleges that then attorney general loretta lynch knew they were not going to move forward on some of these charges against hillary clinton as part of that clinton e-mail investigation. republicans are raising concern as about five months of missing tex messages that were not turned over to congress. democrats are saying it's part of an effort to distract from the russia-trump investigation as republicans are starting to pursue this new line of inquiry going forward. >> thank you very much. let's talk about the text messages that we have. put aside the ones that are missing. let's talk about the ones we have first. as he points out some of them seem to raise red flags. where they suggest loretta lynch who was then the attorney general knew the conclusions of the fbi's investigation when she seemed to imply i'll accept whatever it is. these texts, let eets just 's j clear, were made before comey made the announcements. timing looks like hell. it's her reply that seems to damming. she writes back it's real profile since she knows no charges will be brought. that's the operative text. >> does it look bad? absolutely. you're going to read the tea leaves the way you want to. in june of 2016, you have that phoenix tarmac meeting between attorney general lynch and the former president. that's what comey uses as the basis for coming out on july 5th and doing shotgomething unprecedented weighing in and saying we're not going to bring charges but here are things that happened. the fbi has never done that before. we have been around for 110 years. we follow the evidence. does it look bad? absolutely. it absolutely looks bad. i think a lot of people are uncomfortable with it. the only way to get to the bottom is some folks are brought forward and asked to testify under oath. >> what do you say, richard? >> i think these two people maybe shouldn't be working for the government. they shouldn't be using their official texts, phone lines to be sending messages to each other. big picture is that there was absolutely no legal precedent for charging someone with what happened to hillary clinton. we've been over and over this. that's a 2016 story that they are trying to dig up in 2018. no legal precedent for charging someone for negligently handling classified information in an e-mail account like that. zero. talking a bt computer with hillary clinton e-mails on it. that was used to spread the rumor they are re-opening investigation. they threw the election for trump. the notion they were favoring clinton is laughable to what happened in 2016 that last week of october. >> absolutely. >> let's talk about the texts we don't have. the other issue is we have five months of texts that we do not have. all the inappropriate phone calls to the russian ambassador, the national security advisor, michael flynn. that's a strange time line, let's say the least. they say these are missing because they were switching their sam sung phones. have not answered whether it's these two people's messages that are missing or perhaps others. do they owe it to us to get to the bottom of that? >> i think they do. at a minimum it fuels conspiracy theories. they look at this and go five months. one month after the election through the transition which is the greatest period of time we're look at this counter intelligence investigation into russia meddling into our election. yes, it's going to have a huge impact. under normal circumstances, and i'll disagree with richard on this. i would leave this in the office of inspector general. they are apolitical and they do great work. under the current set of circumstances we're dealing it, i think a special prosecutor needs to be appointed. >> i want to give you chance to respond. information about the fbi. they won't give it to the fbi for the fbi to look at. democrats say it's political who have seen it. when you put all this together, is there any reason to have a second special counsel or is that ceding to conspiracy theoryists. >> i would have a special counsel. what i blame president obama for is not having the fbi be on top of the situation with the russians interfering in our election. >> you're saying you would do a special counsel? >> no. i think congress, needs to investigate why the fbi wasn't on top of the the russians messing in our election. in 2016, why were the obama administration slow to deal with this. we had the russians interfering in our election, the fbi was aware of it. they just sat around in 2016 and did nothing. it's not this stuff in this report. this is irrelevant to the big picture of what happened in 2016. >> there was an investigation. just because the president didn't push it at the time because president obama thought it would tilt the election -- >> or he thought hillary was going to win. >> exactly. >> there's always been an investigation into that. we worry about china, north korea, russia meddling in our election. that investigation was under way. >> thank you both. next, a complaint just filed with the justice department over stormy daniel and alleged hush money paid to silence her about an affair with donald trump. did the payoff break the law. trump taking credit for gains that benefit african-americans. does he deserve it? 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do you have to prove it was money to shut her up? >> we don't have to prove anything. the legal standard for filing a complaint like this one at the federal election commission is it's there reason to believe the law was broken. they have subpoena power. it's the dent of justice job to investigate. they like wise have subpoena power. it looks pretty obvious this was hush money payment given the timing, given the reporting that ms. daniels was talking to major media outlets. >> she was negotiating with media outlets about appearing and given an interview a view years prior to in touch magazine with great detail about the alleged affair. does it matter if donald trump knew about the money? if michael cohen went and did this without trump's knowledge, does that take away any concern about the campaign? >> it definitely matters. if he was acting without donald trump's knowledge and authorization and completely without any knowledge or authorization by other trump campaign committee staffers. this will not be. it's not a contribution to the trump campaign. our complaint is invalid. it should not be prosecuted. i highly doubt that was the case. we're talking about donald trump's personal lawyer who seemingly orchestrated this whole thing. he set up the llc. i'm pretty sure an investigation would reveal that donald trump was fully knowledgeable about this. >> of course as you point out it was tone just before the election. thank you very much. i appreciate your time. >> thanks so much for having me. next, some gains for african-americans in the past year on unemployment which trump is taking loud credit for. does he deserve it? 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>> that's a tough question for me to answer. >> reporter: parks is one of the 88% of black ohioans who did not vote for trump in 2016 and he does not appreciate some of his rhetoric when talking about black people. including recently calling african nations shithole nations. her tax preparing business was hit hard during the great recession but bounced back. while she deserves trump deserves credit, she doesn't think some of his policies are going to help her. >> i believe it is going to help the very rich. >> athena, it is incredible because they are giving credit but credit and votes how big is the gap between the two? >> i think it could be big. they are giving credit but only on the stock market. some people say they are not in the stocks. so they don't benefit directly. we spoke to several black voters off cramera as well as on camer. you are not seeing a lot of support growing. >> thank you so much. and next, is this donald trump working hard during a shutdown? is that what working hard looks like? 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