Green writes Candidate Trump seemed indifferent but changed his mind when he tried it out in a speech in January Of 2015 and the place went nuts. The u. S. Economy may hinge now on a throwaway catch phrase that just happened to catch on. More from cnns sarah mur rich. Has the white house offered any more information following the president s threat about shutting down the government . Aside from what you saw from Sarah Huckabee sanders today, they havent really given us an indication of why the president decided this is something he would be willing to shut down the government over. They also didnt offer any real explanation as to how he squares and acts like this with what you showed was a regular campaign promise. A notion that this wall was going to be built and american taxpayers wouldnt be on the hook for. Since he became president , the president of mexico has made one
thing very clear to President Trump. Theyre not paying for that wall. The last time the government shut down was
Bottom line that was their goal heading into tonight, to live to fight inll of these in november. Brian, well accepted it over to you. Our thanks to steve kornacki. We ask only that you not stray from the big board. We will come back with results as they come in throughout the broadcast. Checking in on other news, day 502 this was of the trump administration. And President Trump wasted no time again today lashing out at his own Attorney General of his recusal from the Russia Investigation. President trump wrote on twitter, the russian witchhunt hoax continues all because Jeff Sessions didnt tell me he was going to recuse himself. I would have quickly picked someone else. So much time and money wasted. So many lives ruined. And sessions knew better than most that there was no
report would be positive, as we learned the next morning. But when aide mentioned sessions, trump abruptly ended the conversation and unmuted the television in his office, dismissing the staffer to resume watching
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Were not doing enough. Look at these five people. Heres the thing, john. There is a whole Cottage Industry of distraction folks. This is a distraction from x or distraction from mueller. Im not sure that was the case because there are a lot of fires happening now around this administration. The Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort, Special Counsel, Jeff Sessions fire series is one of them. There is also the election en r interference fire, big deal. I had conversations with folks on the other side of folks on capitol hill, both parties. One consistent theme i heard in relation to election interference, Leadership Starts at the top. I asked point blank, who do you talk to in the white house, who do you talk to in the administration . Nobody, we dont know who the point person is, we dont know what their strategy is. This is somebody who is at a high level over there. This seemed to be a way of the whit
anecdotally? yes. chris, i ve been on the west coast, the east coast and the northeast in the last five days. and republican intensity is up. you are seeing them dig in their heels. i think the white house team has seen that. that s why you ve seen sarah sanders rhetoric change, kelly ann s rhetoric change and frankly the president s as well. this is the hill they want to die on. it s the wrong hill for them to die on. to the earlier point as well, it is bigger now than issues of sexual misconduct and drinking. what has happened is that time has led on, questions about his fitness. that is an area where republicans are going to get into very dangerous place because even with the gorsuch nomination and all the controversy around merrit garland, his fitness was never in question. kavanaugh is now somebody whose fitness is in question. how does this resonate? certainly you have seen the excitement, if you will, from the republicans increase and the rhetoric change as well. but for d
it acted marginal republicans in this fight. is that something you ve dean anecdotally? yes. chris, i ve been on the west coast, the east coast and the northeast in the last five days. and republican intensity is up. you are seeing them dig in their heels. i think the white house team has seen that. that s why you ve seen sarah sanders rhetoric change, kelly ann s rhetoric change and frankly the president s as well. this is the hill they want to die on. it s the wrong hill for them to die on. to the earlier point as well, it is bigger now than issues of sexual misconduct and drinking. what has happened is that time has led on, questions about his fitness. that is an area where republicans are going to get into very dangerous place because even with the gorsuch nomination and all the controversy around merrit garland, his fitness was never in question. kavanaugh is now somebody whose fitness is in question. how does this resonate? certainly you have seen the excitement, if you wil