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Presidency. he doesn t want to budge and give in there. he s going to sort of wait out the democrats with hope that the democrats ultimately cave and meet his demands. it s unclear if that s going to happen, obviously, there s a lot of activity on capitol hill. there does not seem to be as of this moment a strategy or a real comprehensive plan from the administration to get out of the shutdown and get the government reopened even as we re hearing about agencies having significant problems with the shutdown. anna, based on this new democratic proposal that kelly o. was telling us about, president trump could conceivably get his $5.7 billion, but he would have to lose out on the physical wall. it would be a virtual wall, if you will, to a certain extent. would the president ever accept that? well, i think it s a starting point certainly in terms of the money. for a long time the democrats weren t even willing to talk about anything saying they aren t going to negotiate unless the gov ....
Because they agree with democrats in sending the shutdown down and negotiating border funding later. we can have a bigger fight for the rest of the funding anyway. that was going to happen whether or not you got $5 billion or more. i support getting the $5 billion and more, but let s get the government open. let s go to white house correspondent kellie o donnell with more on this. kelly, what do you know about this meeting? reporter: it is under way now. we ve been talking with advisers who say the vice president is leading this session. as you pointed out, jared kushner, the president s son-in-law and senior adviser is there. the secretary of homeland security is there. the top legislative affairs director for the white house, they re the white house team. the acting chief of staff i m told made an appearance at the meeting, but will not be there the whole time. on the congressional side, representatives from both parties from the top offices of leadership. these are the kinds o ....
Certainly by legal challenges to that. in addition, there of course are 800,000 federal employees not getting their paychecks. the office of personnel management has sent out a memo that says planned raises for cabinet-level secretaries should not go forward while the shutdown is in play. those seniors and the president has not had a raise in five years, and that was triggered by the shutdown. the freeze on their pay lapsed. so that s one of the other updates. they re scheduled for a raise, but officials are saying they re not going to get it during the shutdown. kelly o., thank you so much. we ll speak again. nancy pelosi is going head to head with the president over the funding. joy reid, roasto host of a.m. joy sat down with nancy pelosi to discuss that and a whole lot ....
His mind and where he wants to try to direct public attention. and comey is his target today. kelly o., thanks for that. back to the impeachment question and for that joining mekong man ste mekong me congressman kohn from tennessee. democrats will be taking control of the house. if you learn nothing more than beside what was revealed in friday s court filings, do you want your committee to begin impeachment investigations on day one? i ve already filed five grounds for impeachment, so i think that there have been offenses committed by this president and that is why i filed them and that is why i have 17 co-sponsors. but that is as many as we could get. as far as the next congress goes, we will have hearings on the emoluments clause which is two of the five clauses and we will have hearings on those ....
Time, including a period featured in a bomb shell new york times report. the times reporting that this past spring the president talked about the possibility of prosecuting hillary clinton and jim comey. that s according to two unnamed sources familiar with the discussions between president trump and his white house counsel, don mcgahn. it is something his former attorney general would never do, but something his new acting a.g. previously has said should happen to clinton. matt whitaker also under a financial cloud after some new financial disclosures. we ll break it all down, and we do that starting with our white house correspondent, nbc s kelly o donnell following it all, following the president in west palm beach, florida, on this wednesday. let s start with the mueller questions, kelly o. how forthcoming was the president, and do they cover questions of obstruction? reporter: well, the profile homework for the president has now been submitted and the ....