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Russians. joining us from washington, world news editor for axios. dave, good morning to you. hope you re staying warm this morning to say the least. as we well know the president has repeatedly said moscow is not a s threat to the u.s. but know now mueller s findings yesterday appear to prove otherwise. what is russia hoping to gain from meddling in this ongoing investigation? forg russia this is all abo muddying the waters, spreading confusion and division. i do think we have a situation here where when mueller comes back with something there will be a big chunk of the country f that says it s fake news or it was a witch00 or the democrats do worse. i think that s the kind of thing that the russians are trying to encourage here. theyo don t want this to be viewed as an impartial investigation. they want to it be viewed as something that s drummed up against president trump and against russia and spreading this kind of fear of russia and so this information kind of further that ca ....
Status of its employees. as the president calls illegal immigration a national crisis and demands funding for a southern border wall. dave, yesterday we saw the first meeting of this conference committee on homeland security, meeting on capitol hill, 17 members gathering together from the house and senate. seemed democrats came to that unwilling to talk about wall funding. where does that leave republicans if that s the salvo from the democratic side? right. the big picture is the same. trump says i won t sign anything without funding for a physical barrier. democrats say we won t give you that funding. if this bipartisan group can t reach a deal there s three option. one is that recognizes break ranks with trump. one is trump declares a national emergency to get funding for that wall and throws it to the courts. the last one we get another government shutdown. i think mitch mcconnell is really hoping this bipartisan group comes back with something ....
Twitter. i think we can all agree on that. we ll talk to you again in just a little bit. democrats involved in the process of tryinglv to strike a deal on border security in a bid to avoid yet another government shutdown. they made their opening offer in ther talks. house democrats unveiled an initial plan that would not provide any moneyha for preside trump s border wall yet democrats signaled ultimately everything is on the table, including border barriers demanded by fortunate. lawmakers on bothy sides are showing signsde of, flexible on the matter in a bid to strike a compromise and avoid another government shutdown.vo ahead of the democrats offer the president warned in a moment tweet lawmakers would be wasting their time if their plan did nod include money for his wall. members of the negotiations leadership aides tell nbc news that the 17 lawmakers working on a dale must have a plan by ....
President is tweeting. on wednesday he tweet this. the intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naif when it comes to the dangers of iran. they are wrong. when i became president iran was making trouble all over the middle east and beyond. the source of potential danger and conflict they are testing rockets last week and more and are coming very close to the edge. economy is now crashing which is the only thing olding them back. be careful of iran, perhaps intelligence should go back to school. in an interview six months ago trump said he was confident in the people he s rebuking like gina haskell and dan coats. watch this. i can only say that i do have confidence in our intelligence agencies as currently constituted. i think that dan coats is excellent. i think that gina is excellent. i think we have excellent people ....
let s go back to that wide ranging winterview that daily caller did with the president. he ll leaving robert mueller s finding up to m the justice department, leave itth up to th whether or not they will make thisr public. but he s been pretty outspoken. what do you make of the latest comment from president. he said a whole lot of things about the o doj and about the mueller investigationou in particular. we know that he is furious that this investigation began in the first place. we know he s made changes at the department of justice with this mind.tigation in soat now he says he ll leave itp toe them when the report is finalized. i think that could be a legal strategy and i think it could be something that he, you know, says something quite different about going forward. so, this will be something that maybe the department of justice will view as encouraging for now but i mou not sure it will be a final decision. he s saying he will leave it up to them. i think we ll hear abou ....