liberal district red, he also joins us coming up on america reports. john: but we begin this thursday on capitol hill where congress is it is moving closer to a government shutdown as republicans shut down securing the border, i am john roberts and happy friday eve do you. when he was welcome at john, i am gillian turner, i am in for sandra smith today with just eight days to go until veteran federal government runs out of motor to make money, house majority leader says he sees this as a moment for his party to strike on border security after nearly two years of record-breaking numbers and migrant crossings. john: the top republican in the house is urging his caucus to go against unless they address the crisis. coverage now kellyanne conway is standing by. but first, teicher has day is live and the border, really has turned into a headache for the democrats. hey, good afternoon to you. yes, you could say that, the border crisis has really turned into a big, major, mid
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news.
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news.
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. the issue of adoption, did that come up? like i said, that was the primary thing we had spoken about in the meeting. that s not the premise that got them in the room. then it was essentially a bait and switch to talk about that 6789 everybody has basically said that in. the already. there is this another intere interesting thing over the weekend. hope hicks boarded air force one and flew to the president s rally in ohio and back. you may recall, hope hicks resigned from the white house one day before a congressional committee that she had told white lies on behalf of donald trump. she is now living here in manhattan and she too has come under scrutiny for crafting that
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offered damaging information on hillary clinton, he wrote no details or supporting information was required. later, e-mails between don junior and the man who organized the meeting said it was supposed to damaging e-mail on hillary clinton. quote, if it s what you say, i love it. to get out ahead of that story, don junior changed his line again. the information they suggested they had about hillary clinton i thought was political opposition research. just after this we heard this from trump s lawyer. the statement released was donald trump jr. and his lawyers. the president was not involve in the that. the president was not involved in the drafting of that statement. it came from his son. july 31, trump himself personally dictated the statement. then hater this year it was revealed trump s own lawyers admitted in a momentumo to robert mueller that yes, the president himself did dictate the trump tower statement but added there was no collusion. this weekend, the president s same la
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the battle to save lives as president trump sends a tweet about the fire that baffles even his own staff about the cause of it all. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. in the politics lead, rick gates, former number two on the trump campaign grilled right now about the plea deal by defense attorneys for former trump campaign chair paul manafort. gates describing today in vivid detail of he says manafort engineered an elaborate scheme to avoid taxes. prosecutors say manafort s own e-mails show him directing the money to multiple offshore accounts. now, although conspireing with russia on the 2016 election is not officially on the docket, the sub text of it is looming over the trial. gates says that manafort gave some control over a bank account in cyprus of a man of a
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While directing a section of people who had been hired illegally to refund money paid as salary within four weeks, a two-judge bench also ordered the board to conduct a fresh round of recruitment.