Majority leader, Kevin Mccarthy who is now threatening members of his own party. Plus, pitiful priorities, i will speak with congressman jimmy gomez of the House Oversight committee, as the gop focuses on impeachment instead of keeping the government open. And will later on, no obstruction allegations, what a former aide says donald trump told her just after the classified documents organization was speeding up. Im Charles Coleman junior, in for ayman mohyeldin. Lets get started, i got a lot to talk about. But first, breaking news, time is running out, we are just seven days away from a Government Shutdown and most House Republicans are nowhere to be found. Literally. They have left washington to go home with no resolution insight. Now on thursday, for the second time this week, House Republicans failed to start a debate on a bill to fund the government after five farright members of Speaker Mccarthys own caucus block the measure and demanded additional spending cuts. This marks yet an
strength, because he must know that in the medium to long term, his position will not be so good. and this is the assessment from our russia editor, steve rosenberg. president zelensky did say that he d be willing to discuss ukraine s neutral status in other words, discuss the possibility of ukraine giving up its aspirations to join nato. you would think that is something that russia would welcome, but, and there are a couple of buts here. first of all, president zelensky insisted there had to be a referendum on this, once russian troops had pulled out of his country. this could take months and it s hard to see the kremlin agreeing to wait. the other thing is, i wonder whether ukrainian neutrality is enough now for vladimir putin because it s widely believed that all along, his objective has been to force ukraine, to force russia“s neighbour, back into russia“s orbit. we should note that ukraine formally abandoned its neutral status
administrator who runs the shop, but it is a shop to run to support the president, and somebody has to see that it does so. and to make sure they do. and jeremy peters, you are saying that people are not lining up to work for president trump and not anybody necessarily close to him, and do we believe that going the change if it is clear that the president is running for re-election, and perhaps if he does get re-elected and do you think that you are going to be seeing so many of these conservatives and trying to stay the outside of the president s orbit? i think it is kind of the lindsey graham scenario as i would describe it. somebody who keeps him at the arm s length and criticizes him when he needs to, and when the president simply goes too far, and somebody who also knows how to keep the president close and to talk to him just enough and in just the right way to have some type of influence. you are not always going to be able to change his mind, but shape his thinking a little