The question with a former commanderinchief take the stand . You think about what we are doing but what i am doing, im g indicted for you witness former fixer Michael Cohen to return for more indepth. He lies and embellishes, stories adjust to make himself look good. Shannon are public and front runners allies show up in his defense. Will asked trump attorney will scharf to expect as the case enters week six. House republicans moved to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland and contempt over the Special Counsel tapes of pickwick something i can do is continue to do the right thing. I will protect this building and its people. Rich will assess our legal panel by the white house is insisting and on keep the audio recording secret. Then, the bodies of four hostages recovered as aid arrives and because of the president S National Security adviser traveled to israel. Well get exclusive reaction from both sides of the aisle with House Republican conference chair Elise Stefanik massachusetts i
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mercedes schlapp about where the white house is today on monday. we re looking at all options on the table. he has discussed in the past declare a national emergency. our goal now is to insure that congress can come up with a plan of action. you have these people coming together on wednesday. they will be meeting with experts to talk about what resources our border patrol agents need. bill: let s see by midweek if there is much movement. two weeks ago the offer the white house countered with. $5.7 billion for barriers, 800 million new drug detection tech 23408 gee. 2700 border agents. new system for central american minors and on and on it went. pretty interesting list. i don t know in the end how persuasive it is. some democrats agree with a lot on that list. they absolutely do. two points on this. number one sitting on the
preserve the regime. the problem is, having this kind of weapon could, in fact, assure its own destruction. during the cold war there was logic of mutual shared logic because the soviet union had so many nuclear weapons and missile defense technology is not the same as it is right now. if we re talking about north korea having dozens of weapons and perhaps a smaller number of that that can actually be fitted on to icbms and the u.s. has and other countries have capable missile defense tech 23408g, one could say, one could argue that the mutual live cured destruction does not apply. there might be a case where the u.s., south korea or a whole host of nations together might try to attempt preemptively. they ve made the assumption that they could get away with it, that they could lauchb much some
spending cuts and more spending reductions in the tax code. that should be an incentive for us to act boldly now instead of kicking our problems further down the road. reporter: except those problems could be kicked further down the road. since this was a call to action without any actual action. few specific details among the president s four pillars. first the president vowed he would have the political courage to cut some programs unnamed near and dear to the hearts of democrats. then in the next breath he promised to spend new money on all kinds of others. we will invest in medical research and invest in clean energy tech 23408 technology. we will invest in new roads and invest in education and we will invest in job training. reporter: as for the second pillar, defense cuts, it sounded like to quote the president himself kicking the can. we are going to have to conduct a fundamental review of