Sake. Theyre not talking about the budget or the millions of americans who will lose paychecks in a Government Shutdown, including members of the military and air Traffic Controllers and tsa workers. Instead, the house gop is focused on hunter biden, spending this entire thursday morning and afternoon, again, just two days before the government shuts down on saturday to open their Impeachment Inquiry into his dad, the president. Theyre looking into hunter biden as well. We ask, is this time well spent. Joining us now capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and Punch Bowl News cofounder and msnbc political contribute jake sherman. There are 52 hours or so before the government shuts down. Is there anything else happening that were not currently watching on television . No, not really. There are a couple of things worth noting. Number one, the senate is trying its best to cobble together a Border Security package to ride along
Today officials authorize today know. Trump supporters complaining about the source of leaks rather than the substance of the leak, jim sciutto. Reporter a source close to ambassador susan rice tells me the claims she improperly unmasked u. S. Citizens caught up in surveillance is in a word false coming from ambassador rice, but ive also spoken to Senior Intelligence officials from democratic and republican administrations to ask them about the process of unmasking. Is it unusual, illegal . And the answer is usually no, not unusual, not illegal. They say a couple of things, one the law allows it, two for it to happen the official requests,
the Intelligence Community has to approve it, it is often times approved because that official wants to provide more information as they are reading Intelligence Report they want to know more about the significance, that is shared between the briefer. Its possible that official could do that him or herself but by nature of it it is only exchanged one
Think i m going to recite the gettysberg address tomorrow. your employer can say no, you can t. is it only when black players try to shine a spotlight on the bigotry in this country? it does seem that the majority of the american people actually disapprove of colin kaepernick s protest. so it might be that president trump is on the more popular side of that issue, whether or not he s acting in a way that will get that kind of support. technically for the moment, or for the last year or so, but what this is really bringing to the surface is a lot of the debates about race inequality have been around the informal a nfl and our country for many
Similar, we re going to be like fdr, it s such an emergency, aye got to get elected, that turns out not to be true. we have to look at the bigger picture, there s a fundamental disconnect between what we re seeing on the 24/7 news cycle and the main stream media and white house and the rest of the country. around the country, we re seeing congress assumer confidence at a 17-year high. small business confidence is going up. the dow jones industrial average up 11%. we have also seen the president step up and lead on the world stage. these aren t things necessarily that would have been described in the contract, if the president laid out at the speech in gettysberg. we saw him go i think do a fantastic job of stopping assad from the ability to use chemical weapons again and we have seen him on the world stage stand up to kim jong-un and send a
100 days, and it has been a lot, media will kill. this 100-day thing it s absurd, who would even make such a promise. on november 8 americans will be voting on this 100-day plan to secu to return security to our governments and we will once more have a government of, by and for the people. and importantly, we will mike america great again. believe me. you know, he put that 100-daytime line with great fanfare. it sounds like what he had done for years as a real estate developer. he late it out, his closing pitch in the final days of the campaign, in gettysberg. actually he tweet it about it as well, this 100-day standard he