find all the answers you're looking for - because getting what you need should be simple, fast, and easy. download the xfinity my account app or go online today. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. steve bannon gets more time. they give the president a few more days to prepare for his russia meddling questions. plus, trump is back and in full force. last week he blew up a bipartisan immigration plan. today undermining congressional leaders at the worst possible moment. just 36 hours now to a possible government shutdown.

the trump attack plan clashes with his chief of staff. constant chaos, republicans say, make it almost impossible to govern. >> you can't blame president trump for a broken congressional system, but we do need a better partner down at the white house. i feel very comfortable and confident that we're going to rise to the occasion because we'll all look like idiots. not just the president has a probm, we all have a problem. >> and we begin the hour with a countdown in the chaos caused by president trump. morning tweets attacking his own chief of staff, and then, remarkably, attacking the temporary spending plan crafted by his own party's congressional leader. inside 36 hours now until the government runs out of money. seven hours or so until the house votes on a stopgap measure crafted by paul ryan for funding

for a popular children's program. chip, the president tweeted this morning, should be part of a long-term solution, not part of a 30-day or short-term extension. >> i am sure where he stands. he fully supports passing this legislation. i talked to him an hour and a half ago after my csi speech. i didn't see what he wrote, but i've spoken with the president. he fully supports passing what we're bringing to the floor today. >> compare the speaker's diplomacy to this. speaker john cornyn's reaction when he was asked about the tweet. >> i'm not sure what the president means. >> a lot of that going around today. let's go straight to cnn's phil mattingly on capitol hill. phil, you were in the room with the speaker. you asked him about how effective president trump has been as a partner. what did he tell you? >> i think you nailed it on the head, the speaker is very

diplomatic about this. right now i think it was more confusion than anything else when it came to the tweet this morning. i had several republican aides tweet me and say, have you heard anything from the white house to explain what he actually meant about this tweet? they weren't sure if it was the d duration of the chip program or the funding. this is a regular thing. this happened last week on the fisa vote, you mentioned. the speaker gets on the phone with the president shortly after the tweet. they have a short discussion and afterwards the speaker comes out and says, everything is good, he's completely supportive of our position. this is a very close vote in the house. republicans are going to have to carry the weight on this. they need the votes on their own and they have members uneasy about the process. if the president weighing in on this issue isn't helpful, you look at the fact this was a deliberate strategy by republicans to draw democrats in or make it a painful vote if they vote no, the president

calling that into question. will it sink the process entirely? no. but it certainly throws a rench in things on a very difficult day. >> if the cr passes, it changes everything. but they have to make preparations in case we get to the point of a shutdown. wha what's the plan? >> i have aides telling me that they're simply planning if the house passes and it gets to the senate and the democrats don't provide the votes they actually need, the majority leader plans to keep the senate in session throughout the weekend. as he does that, he's going to plan a series of incredibly difficult political votes mostly targeting those 10 democrats that come from states that president trump won, in many cases very handily, that are up for reelection in 2018. basically it serves dual purposes here. it's a threat to democrats who right now, john, you know this as well as i do, are very much heading in that direction of keeping the majority leader from the vote he needs to get 60

sochlt itso it's a threat but it kind of underscores the pieces here. the fact this is coming to this at this time is very frustrating to republican leaders, so that's where we are. it's a standoff, it's people digging into their own sides and right now there is no clear resolution forward which is 35 hours left, johphil. thanks for that reporting. joining us cnn's abby phillips, bloomberg times. one year in, we're about to get to one year of the trump presidency, but this morning, hours after this critical vote when the speaker is not sure he has enough votes to keep the government open, and anyone out there who is a republican and thinks the democrats will get all the blame, that's just crazy. you have a republican president, republican senate, republican house. republicans will get some of the blame, if not most of the blame if the government shuts down. the president tweeted out it's a

bad deal, essentially. why? >> it's tweet first, ask questions later, apparently, at this white house. i'm telling you, that tweet surprised everyone, and it doesn't really -- frankly, it doesn't make any sense, because the chip funding that's in the deal that they put forward isn't a short-term funding. it's a relatively long period of time, six years, and so it's just a misinformed tweet and it's unhelpful because the president is not driving the process forward, he's kind of holding it back. everything is spinning out of control and that hurts republicans rather than helps them. >> to that point i want to bring this in. this is the president's deputy secretary now. the president of the united states tweet ted this morning, this is a bad idea. now the secretary has to say congress has to do its job to provide funding -i'mot going to read the rest of it >> they did not mention chip. >> this is t cleanup they have to do when the president does this. then they try to change the subject and say this is going to

punish the military. we'll get to that in a minute. but why? >> he likes to lurch from one crisis to another. he can't help himself with that. it's like the weekly drama that we're going to have over the next, you know, the next 48 hours sort of inserting himself into the middle of it. troublemaking. he gets a kick out of that, clearly. >> he gets a kick out of forcing the speaker of the house to call him once a week and say, mr. president, you're for that, you're against that, don't you know that? >> this whole thing is happening at the worst possible moment because the house is on the cusp of having the votes pass the cr. if not, we're 35 hours from a government shutdown. the republicans need 60 votes. others who have carried this over the threshold, angus king in maine, the independent caucuses of democrats are now opposed to this bill. without their support, even if it does get through the house, it may not get through the

senate and it belo horizonlows republicans entire setup. >> no american should like the way they do this. they haven't passed a budget by the normal rules in a long time. everything rig now. r if you're a conservative and you don't want to vote, you can go to the speaker or the senate and say, why are you voting for something like this? it's an out. >> you asked why he does this. it's a pretty obvious answer. either he saw it on "fox & friends" or somebody talked to him about it. those are typically the few ways he reacts in the morning. but i think we're looking at this through a very conventional prism. he doesn't think in terms of what's the best move for the party or for keeping the government open, he wants to stay in the mix and be the focal point. winning to him is being talked about. that is success. being in the mix, being the

person who is driving the coverage. the coverage is everything, and guess what, the coverage is now about trump, and therefore, he's happy. it's that simple. >> people often ask in washington, will the real donald trump please stand up? he said last tuesday, i want immigration reform, i'm ready to pass a bill. two days later he won't have anything to do with it. he changes his mind as he pleases as if yesterday has no meaning to today. so the president goes to the pentagon, he knows republican leadership is again mad at him. he knows they're saying, why are you pulling the rug out from under us? and he says, this is not about me, this is about the horrible democrats if the government runs out of money. >> if the country shuts down, whh could vy well be, the budget should be handled differently than it's been handled over a long period of time, many years. but if for any reason it shuts down, the worst thing is what happens to our military. >> to be clear, the president has a point about the military

can't do any long-term planning because there is a big debate about it. they want to raise the spending caps and give the military more money. but after midnight, troops get paid. there isn't a big impact today on the military, but for a couple years now they can't do any long-term planning. >> this is the frequent hobby horse of whoever is in power when they're trying to avoid a government shutdown. it reminds people the military isn't going to get paid, so i think that's pretty by the book. the problem is there's this other stuff that is being negotiated, and it's also not even clear the republicans have enough votes on their side. it would be one thing if democrats were really just the ones holding it up, but they're not, really. they're still having an issue of getting all the republicans on board. when you control all three branches -- you know, both chambers and the executive branch, it's hard to make that

case. >> it is hard to make that case. here's democrat ryan shass tweeting out. last year potus says, we need a good shutdown. then daca is revoked. then chip expires. then no deal on budget. republicans set multiple fires that they cannot put out. we are willing to work with them, but it's impossible when they act this crazy. it's really hard to move controversial things forward with a closely divided government when the president of the united states changes his mind day to day, if not minute to minute. >> that sentiment from senator shass comes close, and that's why we haven't had a government shutdown since 2013. they always get it done, but i think democrats are pushed to the breaking point on this one. they're faced with a disappointment on daca and have

to explain it. it gets harder and harder every time to explainit, and the fact that the president used that kind of language last week has inflamed the debate in a way that makes it even tougher for democrats. how do they defend this now? it seems like a lot of democrats who vote are needing it. >> the party itself is driven more and more to the left. you have all these candidates positioning for 2020 as we saw with corwin harris. the gap keeps getting wider and wider on both sides and makes it impossible to do anything, which is why people hate donald trump as president. >> he said they were all stupid and he would figure out how to make this work. interesting question for me is going forward. he's the president. does it end up on him? does the outsider become "the insider" as we go through this

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and if you follow that lead, we'll never get anywhere. >> is john kelly one of the people around the president who is irrational when it comes to immigration? >> i don't think john kelly is irrational. i don't think he's ever closed a deal before politically. >> senator graham also says the president needs to be a better partner if washington has any hope of pushing past the confusion the president himself has created and actually getting a daca deal, a deal to protect the so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers. last night the senate majority mitch mcconnell says, until and if the president makes up his mind, butkus. >> i'm looking for something that president trump supports and he's not yet indicated what measure he's willing to sign. as soon as we figure out what he is for, then i would be convinced that we were not just spinning our wheels. >> the deadpan are remarkable from mcconnell. >> what is the president for?

>> the senate majority leader is clearly confounded, making no attempt to feign his shock about where he finds himself in 2018. >> two days away from one year in office, and the leader of the republicans and the senate says, you know, it's hard to govern when you have no idea what the president stands for. that's what he's saying. >> he's right. >> it was a moment of candor from leader mcconnell. he has said multiple times that if a group of senators can come up with a deal that the president can support, he will put it on the floor. the key there is something the president can support. where is he on this? does ehe want a daca deal, does he not? he is not in the same place on tuesday as he was the rest of the week. within that, we need specific proposals. nobody really knows where he is right now and nobody believes

he's going to be in the same place tomorrow as he is today. that credibility problem is enormously problematic on an issue as explosive that these republicans need to feel like they're going to be protected. >> is the president racist or why does he default to prejudicial language? the republicans, forget the democrats for a minute, that's not disrespectfully, the republicans are trying to get a deal here. the question is where is the president? where does he stand? let's listen to lindsey graham on the question of that outburst. is he a racist? >> do you think he's a racist? >> absolutely not. you could be as dark as charcoal and lily white, it doesn't matter, as long as you're nice to him. you could be the pope and criticism him, it doesn't matter, he'll go after the pope. you could be putin and say nice things and he'll like you. it's not the color of your skin,

it's not the content of your character, it's whether or not you show him respect and like him. >> he's trying to calm a street fighter there, but that is a very -- i don't know what to call it, but that's not a good portrait of a president. it doesn't matter -- you can be vladimir putin, you can be evil. as long as you say nice things about him, he's okay with you. >> it also doesn't explain why the president characterized, why he made this dichotomy between the norways of the world and the continentf africa and haiti and tps countries. it doesn't explain that at all. but i will say it is fascinating to watch this graham/trump relationship evolve over time. people were asking a couple weeks ago, what is it about lindsey graham that he's gone from trump's biggest critic to his best friend on the golf course all the time? but here we are again, and it's about this -- >> he challenged the president. >> he just explained the rati

rationa rationale, which is if you are nice to trump, he will do things for you. he tried to be nice to trump, but in the meeting in that oval office last thursday, trump did not follow through on that. >> as we try to follow the controversy which has taken trump to the quicksand, which is immigration, a lot of people want to protect the so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers, president trump goes and has a meeting with hispanics, trying to break the ice. he has a meeting which says some things, including the president may have been uninformed during the campaign a little bit, he has morphed on his positions a little bit. that's in the meeting. >> he's very definitely changed his attitude toward the daca issue and even the wall. he has evolved in the way he's looked at things. campaign to governing are two different things, and this president is very, very flexible in terms of what is within the realm of the impossible. >> again, that is the

president's chief of staff, a retired general brought over from homeland security. that's what he said right there, right? that's john kelly. this morning the president gets up and who does he pick a fight with? john kelly. tweeting out, the wall is the wall. it's never changed from the first day i conceived of it. it was never intended to be built in areas of natural protection, goes on and on. but this morning he sees john kelly on television saying somehow he's waffley and flexible and he picks a fight with his chief of staff. >> it just shows, as we've seen over and over again, that he has absolutely no discipline. why do you want to take on that fight right now? >> during the campaign he said he would deport the d.r.e.a.m.ers, now he says he wants to let them stay. earlier in the campaign he said big, beautiful wall, led us to believe it would be coast to coast. >> the wall is whatever it ends up looking like the a.

all he wants i deal. the wall could end upeing see-through in some parts. they ask him questions, how high, what is it made of, and he says, he doesn't care, he just wants a deal and he wants a wall. so whatever that wall end up looking like is what the wall will be. >> pastels. >> it's hard to govern when you're fighting constantly. >> again, two things drive in. perceptions of him and whether or not he is perceived as somebody who is tough and can be taken seriously or be laughed and mocked at. and i think he saw kelly on tv and saw stories today in the papers, so he responded to that. and, again, the coverage and the perception. nothing else matters. the fact that kelly is his chief of staff and the fact he's embarrassing his chief of staff and the fact this is a dicey moment is beside the point. he cares about number one and he does not want to be embarrassed. he will lash out.

it could be the pope of rome, it could be a staffer. it doesn't matter. >> he doesn't like it when his staff gets all the attention and lead to negative perceptions of him in any way. >> it was also a blunt assessment to say that the president was uninformed and that he basically tut ored him. that wasn't exactly a compliment. >> if i could justadd, if there is a government shutdown tomorrow, it will be t f time in about half a century in the modern budgeting era that a party that controls the house, the senate and the white house has a shutdown. >> when is the last time? >> there isn't a last time because prior to the '70s, they didn't lead the house. >> unprecedented. up next, president trump dives into the next big special election, a house race in a deep red part of pennsylvania. democrats think they might be able to turn it blue. the republican candidate says,

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wasn't even opposed. there is a special vote now to replace him, so let's go back to the presidential map. this should be trump country. look at this. 64%. west merlin county. 60%, washington county. southern allegheny county, hillary clinton carried that county, a lot of democrats there. but look at the district demographics, trump country. only 2% african-american, 2% asian. 2% other. this is where president trump turned them out and turned them out big time. he goes there to say i can help the republican candidate in the special election here. what he's trying to say is if things go the republican way, as we go into the primaries and november, i can be there for you. >> they want me to be involved. i want to be very involved, in fact, not only with the senate but also with the house. i will be working for incumbents and anybody else who has my kind

of thinking. i think it's going to happen and we'll make a lot of trips. >> the president wants to be very involved. he has to be invited to be very involved. let's talk specifically. jonathan, you just wrote about this race. this should be a republican win, but republicans look at the other day in a legislative race in wisconsin, last month at the big senate race in alabama. we can look at virginia, we can look at new jersey, we can look at a whole bunch of legislative seats that flipped this year, and republicans are losing in places they should be winning. what will happen there? >> they would create a map problem. they have a 24-seat majority and there are at least that many seats up for grabs. they can't afford to lose any seats. but more than that, it will be a symbolic setback. as you pointed out, john, this is the picture of trump country. for those viewers who saw "deer hunter" back in the '70s, this is "deer hunter" country.

cold and steel, western p.a., very pro trump, largely trump country, numero uno. that's why he's going there because they know a lot of the seeds he can't go to this year. this is somewhere he can be quite an asset. if i had to guess, i would say he'll be back there before march for more of a campaign rally because he is nice over there. the candidate gop is not raise ag lot of money. they're having to prop him up. and the democrat is a pretty solid candidate. 33 years old, former prosecutor, former marine, very prominent local family and is someone who is a capable candidate. that will go a long ways in making this a close race. >> if it's a close race, donald trump won this district by 20 points.

40% of the residents, 41% making $50,000 a year. the president said, i try to keep my promises, i'll give you a big tax cut. it's not just the president that's going to be watching this, speaker ryan will be watching this, mitch mcconnell will be watching this, because if the president loses this district, what's the next big word if it's beyond panic? >> you've got all these members of congress who are in the 23 districts who were won by hillary clinton who are trying to figure out how much to distance themselves from the president, how to run their campaigns. i mean, as we were talking about in the last block, there is no republican message right now. it's all over the place about what they're doing. and so it's going to be really fascinating to see whether or not he can actually pull out a win in this district so that they can also calibrate exactly how close to run to him.

>> republicans are beginning to see what happened during the obama years, essentially the mirim aj ror image. republicans picked up a thousand seats. that's the bench for next year and yeert beyond and the year beyond. democrats think maybe we're going to start this out. since donald trump became president of the united states, 34 legislative seats have flipped to the democrats, only four to the republicans. democrats are starting to think, we had this happen to us for the last eight years, maybe we're getting the beginning of this. >> now the shoe is on the other foot, and i think in some ways the energy is perhaps even more intense now than it was then, because i think the right was deeply uncomfortable with president obama, but in some ways this is a different scenario for a lot of reasons, but all of us are very familiar

with it. the challenge for republicans is going to this fall, there are not going to be a lot of seats in the house where democrats are trying to go in office. they're not entirely enthusiastic about this seat because it is a trump district. there are a lot of places that are non-white, upscale suburban districtshy were democrats are going to feast, becse they'll run in those districts against trump entirely. i talked to it a democrat who wouldn't go there at all. he doesn't want to go after trump because, again, this is one of the places it is not helpful for a democrat to go against trump. guess what, in these places it is. >> he's hoping he doesn't have to. republican suburbanites don't like trump. house gave him a gag order.hite

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welcome back. two big stories on our political radar today. president trump now accusing russia of helping north korea get around international sanctions. the president telling reuters, quote, russia is not helping us at all with north korea. that's a possible reference to reporting that russia has been passing oil, fuel to north korea by a cargo ship. a no-no under united states sanctions. russian officials dispute the accusation. the confidence in the united states as a world leader now at a new low.

a gallup poll says only a third of them have a favorable review of our leadership. germany came out on top in that poll. the house democratic leader nancy pelosi is holding a news conference this hour, right now, less than 36 hours away from a possible government shutdown. listen to some colorful language when it comes to the negotiations. >> this is like giving you a bowl of doggie do, put a cherry on top and call it a chocolate sundae. this is nothing. the chip -- this chip should have been done in september, first of all. second of all, we wanted ten years. by the way, saves $6 billion.ch, republicans rejected that even just on the terms of chip. they rejected the 10-year saving

$6 billion. doing it for six years saves $1 billion. doing it for ten years saving $6 billion is better. in fact, it's best. >> a little math from the democratic leader there after a doggie do reference. your government at work. steve bannon has to go back for more house intelligence testimony, but it won't be today. the chief strategist now gets until the end of the month to sort out what he's willing to say to the intelligence committee behind closed doors. bannon refused to answer questions on tuesday, certain questions about his time at the white house. the chief of staff says no one he knows is telling bannon what to say or not to say. >> did the white house tell him to invoke privilege? >> no. steve is at very little contact with the white house since he left. >> it's interesting what the white house tried to do yesterday through secretary kelly, and that is, well, we

never asked him to invoke a privilege. technically that's correct, but they did tell him, keep your mouth closed. >> it's an interesting debate as these congressional committees try to kee going. it's technically correct he didn't have direction not to invoke privilege, but bannon's lawyer was in touch with somebody and the white house is saying don't answer these questions. i don't think they'll be able to get away with that very long, will they? >> i don't think so. it matters less if bannon has been in contact with the white house about this than it does that he is purely a treasure trove of information whether congress or the team want to get their hands on. he was one of three people who ran president trump's transition team as chief strategist in the white house for about seven months. he knows a lot. >> what makes it worse for them is that another official, a current white house official, testified and was apparently

incredibly forthcoming. he didn't refuse to answer questions, and so lawmakers are probably rightfully asking, why is it that a current white house official can answer questions about his entire tenure and a former white house official can't answer questions about anything at all. >> they're also asking, why did you give all those quotes on the record to a book? i don't want to dwell on steve bannon's assessment, but this tells you everything you want to do about the mood. peter king, a member of the house committee, said he might impart a contempt citation as he said, quote, i have contempt for bannon, anyway. this is not a beloved figure, even among a lot of the republicans involved. >> the white house should be very concerned about what he's going to say. he made it clear with the wolff book that, you know, he's made his bed and he's not afraid to say anything at this point. and so the idea that there isn't communication back and forth, that's not credible.

>> and back to the "where is the president" question. we started with the president on the short-term spending plan, we moved on to where is the president on immigration. where is the president when it comes to sitting down with special counsel robert mueller? remember sometime earlier in the year he said, absolutely, 100% i'm willing to answer his questions. after seeing the president of norway, he said, i don't think there's a need, they haven't proven anything. cbs news talking with the president and it appears things have changed again. >> the president is very willing to sit down and explain whatever is responsive to the questions. do you have any fear of a perjury trial? >> no, but i think it would be foolish to not proceed without consering that possibility. >> the last part is good legal advice. it would be foolish to proceed without considering that possibility, especially when you have a history of saying things that are all over the map and inconsistent with each other and

often inconsistent with the truth. to the first part, the president is very eager to sit down. that's the president's lawyer. the president at that press conference with the norwegian prime minister did not seem very eager. >> this is the dichotomy that's been in the white house for a while. he says we're going to give mueller what he needs, but as cooperative as he may be, they're not going to find anything. the president is in a different place. he wants to believe there's nothing there, but deep down inside, it's very clear based on his own public statements he doesn't trust the direction mueller is going, he thinks it's a witch hunt and he's more reluctant to be in that position than his lawyers are. >> if there's anything about donald trump, you can't trust what his lawyers say. all that matters is what he says is his view on things. props to major garrett, but the fact that the president's lawyers is talking candidly

about strategy to special counsel -- >> god bless his optimism. he says he believes the mueller investigation will wrap up in four to six weeks. anybody want to a a ststab at t? >> they said that six weeks ago. >> it was supposed to be thanksgiving, then the end of the year. >> we'll have four to six weeks from some date on the calendar. >> there is success in keeping him thinking it's going to end soon, and it's not going to end soon. as we go to break, we'll sh president at the base in st. andrews. the president on twitter saying he's happy to go to pennsylvania and campaign for the republican in a special election. up next, not exactly pen pals. why trump and the former president, president obama, have not spoken since inauguration

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herpecin l. you've seen pictures here just a moment ago at st. andrews just outside washington. he's on his way to pittsburgh. wants to talk about his tax plan, the 2018 agenda and also put in a plug of a republican candidate in the strength and weakness of the 2018 midterm year. you see theresident boarding he got the keys to air force i 360 days ago. let me show you the images 360 days ago almost to the minute. this is coverage on inauguration day 2016. the former president leaving the capitol just after president trump swearing in. maybe it was just a good show, but it ended right there.

the current and former president have not spoken since that moment. by many things all washington, that's a dramatic break from tradition dating back to the 1970s. the trump cold chill also a break from what we were told to expect. >> i very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel. we get along. i don't know if he'll admit this, but he likes me. >> how do you know he likes you? >> i like him, because i can feel it. that's what i do in life. it's called "i understand." >> what happened? >> it deteriorated pretty quick. the transition was an incredibly tense period for the two administrations. i've spoken to former obama administration officials who talk about when they came in, they felt like the bush administration had given them such a good handover and had continued to be available to them into the administration. this has not been the case with the trump folks. i think a lot of it has to do with the lack of trust that was

established over several real policy issues. i remember the u.n. vote over israel that really caused a lot of tensions, the allegations of spying. it was pretty bad. >> tapping the wires, suggesting that the last president had tapped him was probably -- had a chilling effect, i would say. >> the flip side of that is president obama very rarely uses president trump's name, but after charlottesville, there was a lot of horror, bipartisan horror with what the president said. the president saying, nobody is born hating people because of the color of their skin or religion. that was a shock to president trump. >> these are two men who have no love for each other, and obama is so different in every way, personality, world views on policy, things like that. i remember him subtly giving advice to the incoming president

saying, think through your decisions, think through a, b, c and d, and reallyiize everythin you say and do is going to have an impact. >> do you think he's followed that advice? thank you for joining "inside politics." wolf blitzer takes over after a quick break. have a great day. it's backed by an unlimited mileage warranty, or it isn't. for those who never settle, it's either mercedes-benz certified pre-owned, or it isn't. the mercedes-benz certified pre-owned sales event. now through february 28th. only at your authorized mercedes-benz dealer.

hello, i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. in washington. wherever you're watching from around the world, thank you so much for joining us. shutdown showdown. n negotiations hitting the wall as the white house gets closer and closer to running out of money and now a glitch in his own proposal. president trump said to be furious at his white house chief of staff after john kelly said his views have evolved on immigration and the border wall. his attorney says president trump is now eager -- eager -- to talk to robert mueller, the special