united states has honored the promise that the government has made. we made these kids a promise. we should keep it. >> congressman of california, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, wolf for having me. >> thanks. that's it for me. thanks for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." erin burnett out frofront start now. out front next breaking news show down the house seconds away from voting as the president is blaming everyone but himself for the failure. can the damage be undone? plus pomp shell testimony released between the trump dossier talking about a possible crime between the trump team and russians. details ahead. let's go out front. and good evening i'm erin

burnett. out front tonight the breaking news keep the united states open for business and that vote is just moments away. this is it a live picture from the floor of the house of representatives. and this is going to be happening here as i said any seconds. it's a vote on cr, continuing resolution to keep the u.s. government open. the deadline to shut down the entire government is about 24 hours away. if a shutdown happens, make no mistake, president trump is laying the blame squarely on democrats. >> we'll see what happens. no, if there is a shutdown, again, i really believe the democrats want a shutdown to get on the subject of tax cuts because they worked so well. they've been so good i think the democrats would like a shutdown in order to get off the subject. >> the problem is republicans control all three elected levers of power in washington and there has never been a government

someo down that did that. . he fired off a tweet, quote, chip should be part of a long term solution, not a 30 day or short term extension. chip of course is the children's health insurance program. 9 million american kids are covered by it. and trump's slam of chip is a big problem. because republicans added chip to the government funding resolution. and they did it in an effort to sweeten the deal to also get democrats on board. trump's tweets forcing the number 2 in the senate explain the facts saying the current house continuing resolution package has 6 year extension of chip, not 30 day. and when senator rubio heard about the president's tweet from cnn, this was his reaction. >> i mean, i would have to go back to the drawing board if that's his view of it. >> back to the drawing board. confusion forced the white house to issue a statement saying the president does indeed support

the republican resolution to fund chip and keep the government open. so did the president really not understand his own party's resolution? or is he for some reason trying to sabotage members of his own party? is he rooting for shutdown will end up being if good for him? after all, only last may when trump tweeted our country needs a good shutdown. >> and phil mattingly is on capitol hill. what are the chances it passes? >> erin, confusing morning, furious lobbying inside the house republican conference, top republican leaders trying to swear their members to come on board. erin, i can tell you right now from top sources they believe they have the votes. here's the problem. itsd only one chamber. there are two chambers here. and in the united states senate where this bill will go next, when the house republicans end up passing it in a short bit, they do not have the votes.

erin, you know the trehresholds quite well. 50 republican seats. that means they'll need at least 10 democrats, probably more. they don't have them. what does that mean going forward? i talked to one aide saying they don't have an end game right now. they don't know how it will end up. what they do know when this government spending bill gets over to the united states senate there is no clear path forward. no plan for what happens next. and that means they are going to head into just 24 hours before the government shuts down with no real idea what the end game is. erin. >> which is obviously not a good place to be. phil, thank you very much. phil is right there on the scene. we'll be going back to him as the votes start. because we anticipate we'll get this out of the house starting seconds from now and have the final result watching it come in this hour. in the meantime i want to bring in our panel we'll have as we cover this breaking news, editor of the national review, april

ryan white house correspondent, and our senior political and list mark preston. mark, let me start with you, obviously the path forward let's say shrouded in darkness. but at this moment how crucial is this vote? >> it's very crucial. i mean, the fact is republicans have to show some forward motion ahead on this. and as phil was saying right now, if they are able to get it out of the house of representatives and out of the senate perhaps they can shift some of the blame to democrat party if democrats do not support this when it gets over to that chamber. so that in itself is extremely important. you also if are you a republican in the house of reap tifpresent, if you are paul ryan, you want to say we are trying to keep the government open and democrats are trying to close it. >> to this blame, we never had a shutdown when one party controls the house and white house. how bad would the shutdown be

for the gop? they are going to try. but it's hard to control it. >> open question. i've always been skeptical it would get to this point where it would be a shutdown but now it looks plauzable and republicans are right on all three elected branches and washington. but they don't own 60 votes in the senate. so in any circumstance they are going to need nine, ten democrats to vote for this. >> democrats. >> and looks like they are not there. plus republicans are bleeding a few votes from lindsey graham and others which make the hill higher to climb. my general take on shutdowns is they never work but they irritate the public. so we may go through ady or more, a week of this. but then i think we probably come around again to some form of clean funding bill. >> does, joan, the president end up benefiting from this? his own tweet in may, government needs a good shutdown. >> i generally believe he thinks so. his brand will transcend. i this i he's a little bit

delusional. also it cob a great respite from the ongoing russia investigation and the continuious breaking nes on that front. but i want to say there is a bill that can get 60 votes in the senate. and it is the durbin graham men menendez and flake bill. adds a little bit of movement toward merit based immigration, which i know is a big thing. >> it's not what republicans want but something in that direction. we'll see. you may still have a shutdown to get that that point as talking about where we are now. april, what is the president's goal here? >> the president's goal is to win, always. but the question is could there be a win in this? and this doesn't look like there will be. this will definitely if there is

a shutdown, this will hurt his brand. president talks about the economy and how it's been so great. well, this one the president is going to own. because there has been a great debate since he took office whose economy is this really. will this be his economy? or is it residue of barack obama? in his tweets it will effect the military yes we want to support the military. but also you have other people who will be furloughed who will lose their jobs. and this president keeps talking about i'm helping people to get raises. that is a big zero. a big goose egg if there is a situation where people are worried about their money coming in and having jobs. so the president is going to own this. and how it's go go to play out for him, we have to wait and see. >> i don't think we can see that with certainty the president is going to own this. certainly in such a debilitated

state. >> really? >> over the past week. maybe anything will stick to him. but after tonight there is going to be a bill in the senate that will avoid a government shutdown and all people have to do is vote for a spending bill to keep the government open and it will be democrats overwhelmingly opposing this. so i wouldn't assume that the blame game is necessarily there. >> i understand what you are saying. but the president, let me explain why i say this president would own it. the president has owned this economy interest day one. january 20th, 1201, he has owned this economy. and there are people from the obama administration, other kme economists who has said this president is coasting on some of the residue of what barack obama did. but the president continues to say this is my economy. so if indeed if there is a government shutdown and how long a government shutdown could last, this is definitely the president owns this almost a year out. this is the president. so i hear what you are saying.

i hear your spin. and he is the leader of the majority party in congress. so this is his. you cannot blame it on barack obama like you do with everything else. >> i want to note to everybody the votes have started. two votes before this vote and they are going on right now. so we can show you the floor. this is one of them. motion to recommit with instructions. go to the next one. then we'll go to the crucial one. i just want though to make ha point here about maybe what the president is thinking. because he's been very open, verbose about shut downs before and where he would place the blame and he placed the blame very squarely on the president. here he is. >> and the president in all fairness he's the leader. he's the one that has to get eve one in a room and get it done. i really think the pressure is on obama to make the deal because he doesn't want this in his resume. they'll be talking about president obama and what a disaster the administration was. so he does have a lot of pressure to get this problem

solved. he's got a big problem. >> this was the shutdown that happened in 2013. he then went on to tweet, obama and democrats want this shutdown they think it helps electoral prospects for 2014. is that his thinking? >> no. they don't want a shutdown, certainly don't want a shutdown. >> they may not. but this may be a window to the president's thinking. >> he'll blame obama for anything. but trump wants this to get through. he lobbied to get this through the house. again there will be a spending bill sitting in the senate and all people have to do is vote for it and people won't shout down. >> and then he can say look it's the democrats who didn't do it. >> i know he will do that, erin, but i think the other reason it's going to be on his shoulders, rich, is that he has walked around, stumbled around like the elephant in the room, complicating everything, under mining his own staff,

undermining lindsey graham, his new friend, undermining john kelly his chief of staff about the comments about border wall and how his views have evolved when we know they have. so he looks kind of out of control. and it's a bad look for a president on the brink of a crisis. >> mark? >> well, a couple things. one is i think we have to clarify the blame game right now. what we'll see is we'll see the real hard right and the real hard left go into their corners and place the blame on each other. that is absolutely going to happen. president trump is going to be blamed for this because he is the president. bull for him it's really could be a short term injury. because people are going to forget this assuming he runs in 2020. who it's really going to hurt is hurt congressional republicans who are going to go back right now that are already under water when you look at the congressional ballot and where they stand, that is really who is going to face a lot of eiir

this. but really president trump doesn't have a long term problem with this. it's really a problem for house and senate republicans. >> which of course if he looked long-term would be a problem for him. although who knows, maybe more democrat house and senate then he does with the republican given track record. all of you stay with me, because as i said seconds away getting to the vote. and we'll be on this. momenting away you can see the capital. that is warehouse members will be casting those votes. and the white house has been calling around trying to get government agencies ready in case a shutdown happens. as republican senators pointing fingers at trump's own team tonight. >> there is people in his ear in the white house who are outliers. >> outliers. plus democrats accused f wanting a shutdown. one of them saying if it shuts down people will die.

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from capitol hill in the mid of votes. open. third vote is crucial one on government shutdown. as you can see we are in process. telling cnn now white house is already calling agencies to make sure plans are in place in case of a shutdown. jeff sezeleny out front in the white house. what are you learning? >> reporter: we are learning of course the main normal course of business are really taking place what would lead to a government shutdown. we do know the president and white house in the last several days, including today, have been calling agencies to put them through their paces, if you will. sadly washington has been through this drill so many times, erin, it's never come to pass at least since 2013. there is a sense this is more real. so we do know the agencies and white house is asking for little disruption as possible to the public. obviously very sensitive to any type of blow back here in terms of national parks and other things.

i'm also learning tonight the president is in the residence of the white house, you can see that behind me here, he is watching this vote. they are watching this very carefully. they do believe they have the votes in the house of representatives. the president was on the phone earlier today with some of his freedom caucus supporters. they are going to be with him, we are told. the senate is a bigger unknown. we do not know if that vote will happen tonight. final vote or tomorrow. the white house all hands on deck here, erin, watching this carefully tonight so see if this vote happens. reality is the president has talked about a shutdown would be good for politics, they know it would be bad for his politics. so they are going to try to avoid that. we'll see if that happens. this is pretty high stakes game of chicken. >> thank you. phil standing by. this panel is here with me. a lot to talk about. first, april, they are making the calls. they are getting ready. that's a responsible thing to do if you are 24 hours away

essentially and really there is no end game even if it passes the house. >> you know, this is what presidential means. and he has to do this. and here's the problem though as he's making and watching what's happening on the hill, and his leadership is making these calls to make sure it's ready, this is something the president doesn't want to do. i'm sure he doesn't. because this again goes back to this president could not get his own party to pull this off even as they added sweetners to chip. there are a lot of things still out there hovering to include budget caps. so many things out there. and the piece about chip but also offering health centers. so this president is doing what he has to do.

and even if he says sometimes a shutdown could be a good thing it is never a good thing. because the people who voted for him, forgotten man and any other person who works for the federal government, or has some kind of relation to the federal government where they are paid, there is a problem here. and politics is personal. and that's as personal as it gets. >> right. and even if you get back pay you pretty much always do in this case. the point is you are sending a mess hague it was fine for you not to get the money for people living paycheck to paycheck. you are sending a message what you think about people. mark, senator diane feinstein made a very big claim today. she said, quote, shutting down the government is a very serious thing. people die. accidents happen. you don't know. necessary functions can cease. first of all, a fact check, mark, people die? >> i don't know necessary functions can cease.

>> military doesn't. >> right. in the military, you know, continues on. can a death be tangent tally related to the government shutdown? i'm sure you can make that connection if this were to happen. but really i think when you look at a comment like this from senator feinstein and you compare it as well as what we hear from republicans saying, and president was vague about this, basically trying to tell the american people that the military is just going to shut the doors, put the padlock on, and not going to work anymore. that is all wrong. it is very harsh rhetoric. and all they are trying to do right now on both sides is to try to push the other one into the corner. >> right. the military is going to shut down, people are going to die. rhetoric like that is what distorts the entire reality and has people get rid of the swamp. but when we talk about the crucial votes in the senate, rich, okay, it isn't just democrats. you have to get to 60 votes and you don't have the democrats. but you don't have all the republicans. republican senator lindsey

graham he wants the immigration dealt with as well and he is saying members of trump's own administration are to blame for this whole situation. here's senator graham today. >> there is people in his ear in the white house outliers. they are people on his staff who have been working in the senate that are well-known to be completely. >> who are you talking about. >> steven miller? name names. >> there are people around the president. >> am i right? >> who have irrational view of immigration. they always have. and if you follow that lead we'll never get any where. >> well, i think lindsey is very disappointed because he spent months trying to woo the president on this issue. president game him the bawl with tick burr ddick durbin and deal. but it wasn't a deal he can support or would rationally support. the amnesty is much larger than the daca population. nothing meaningful in chain migration. visa lottery is repurchase

posed. and no funding for the wall. so talking about the whole gang of six that lindsey and durbin are a part of. it's bipartisan but they all have the same view on immigration and have a disstays and dis regard for people who disagree with them which lindsey was expressing in that clip. >> okay. so but the ol bottom line here is you don't have the votes? it's not just democrats, but as i'm pointing out it isn't only democrats, obviously the majority is democrats. >> they won't get to 60. >> right. because you don't have all the republicans. >> right. >> and i think senator graham is right. and i think dana was right to say are you talking about steven miller? because he is talking about steven miller. i think we know that graham felt really sandbagged when he went in there thinking he had a deal suddenly all these anti-immigration hardliners there. i think steven miller has been shown, has always been a real immigration sell sell lot.

i don't think supporting daca is hard left position. i think the country overwhelmingly supports daca. there are lots of other things we can do with immigrtion reform but it would be really easy to get a clean daca bill at least through the senate, i'm not sure about the house. >> you know, joan, just to clarify, i wasn't saying the support of daca was having the hard left go into the corner. what i was saying was the blame game for the government shutdown is what i was expressing right there. >> people diane donald trump gives you the two dramatic and incorrect takes, and diane feinstein. >> the problem the feinstein comment is going to have for her is she is for the government shutdown. >> right. >> when you get division ns the party they are used against you and no one likes the shutdown and the pressure builds.

>> right. in this interview with senator graham i want to bring in something else he said. so being incredibly critical of the president. been very flip flopping. but asked about whether the president was racist given the whole s hole controversy. he said he's not a racist. >> why don't you ask me is he a racist? >> that was my next question. >> absolutely not. you could be drk as chocolate, lilly white, it doesn't matter. it's not the color of your skin that matters or content of your character it's whether or not you show him respect and like him. >> i mean, let's be clear, april, that's hardly a ringing defense, right? >> no. >> not the contempt of your character that matters. whether you show him respect. >> yeah. >> however, very clearly saying he's not a racist. >> yeah, he was trying to inartfully use dr. martin luther king words from i have a dream

speech. he wanted four little children to be judged by the content of their character but not the color of their skin. now, when it comes to issue of racist, is president trump racist? you know, that's a lot to unpack. this whole year a the lo of things have happened, things have been said. we have dealt with issues of confederacy of charlottesville and pocahontas. and nigeria and haitians and s hole comment and a lot of other things that have happened. even, just a lot of things have happened. there is a whole -- i mean, everyone to include cnn has done a great job of giving the list visually and the audio. but here's the thing, of course you are going to have republicans stand by this president. but in 2018, when you are still

dealing with some issues that were dealt with 50 years in words and comments and phrases and sayings is a problem. and when you have the nation's oldest civil rights organization not make thg a political issue but issue of the heart and reality, definition is when racial prejudice empower me, that's the definition, and if you look at both and some of the issues that have happened, you would say it begs the question are you a racist. and i don't think lindsey graham is in the position to say he's a racist or not. >> and of course the president came on this show and said it wasn't just what he said was racist, or racist sentiment, it was racist, period. thanks very much to all of you. next, just moments away from the crucial vote in the house. if the house votes to avert a shutdown, it comes down to the senate. and as we said no clear path forward in the senate. so are we looking at a shutdown government in about 24 hours? top democrat is next. and highly anticipated testimony from top trump aide hope hicks

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breaking news, the vote has started. you are looking right now live at the house floor. and as i said, the vote to avoid a government shutdown has gbegu. we'll be watching crucial number. 215 votes. anything can change but that's what we'll be watching here. and keep this up on our screen. house republicans scrambling to gather enough votes to pass this. sunlen is out front. and sunlen, as this vote begins, what's happening? >> reporter: yeah, erin certainly huge vote for the house. taking place you see certainly members there sitting in their seats waiting for this big vote. we believe that house republican

leadership does indeed have the votes that they need to get this passed through tonight in the house at least the first step of a two-step process. i saw speaker of the house paul ryan walk from his office to the floor smiling. certainly a lot of drama at least on his side. out and really ironed out in the last hour after he ws able to secure the house freedom caucus on board this bill. they had certainly been withholding their votes for most of the day. we will be watching this vote along with you. the magic number 215 votes that the republicans need to get this passed. an accounting for certain vacancies and steve scalise out recovering from surgery. when it gets passed through tonight and believe it's a win, big problem still over in the senate, we believe the senate will be pushing towards having a procedure vote tonight. a lot here erin, a lot to be determined.

but we do know ha according to senate democrat aides that they believe that they have enough votes in the senate to block this bill once it comes over to the house. which means that it might be going no where fast. and there is certainly a lot less to iron out between house leadership and senate leadership if they do indeed want to avoid a shutdown before tomorrow night at midnight. >> sunlen, thanks very much. we'll keep this up. magic number we are looking for is 215 yea votes. out front now democrat senator ed mark ie. senator, thank you for being with me. we are close to that magic number. then come over to the senate. will you vote to fund the government and children's health care as laid out in this resolution? >> well, you know, the republicans in the house put their bill together that they are voting on right now without having any democrats in the room. so they know they are engaging

in a feudal activity. so they are sending it over to the senate with expectation that the democrats in the senate are going to vote for a bill that they are never included in the negotiation. so of course we are not going to vote for it. that's not the way the constitution intends on congress to vote. so we are going to vote no and say to the president, say to the leadership of the house and senate, republicans all, let's sit down in a room, work on daca, work on child health, work on opioid funding, work on all these issues still unresolved, so that we can present a package on a bipartisan basis to the american people. but we are going to need them to finally get it out of their mind that they can do this without cooperating with democrats. >> i just want to say i believe we have crossed the threshold here. people can change their votes. but as of right now it appears the resolution has passed the house. senator. i just want to be clear what you

are saying, though, is you are willing to have a government shutdown, because you won't get all the things you laid out in the last 24 hours. i want to make it clear of the you are willing to shut down the government for this? >> we are unwilling to allow for the republicans to just sit alone, draft legislation, that governs entire country without any democrats in the room at all. we don't want to shut down the government. the republicans are shutting down the government. they are refusing to discharge their responsibility to ensure that they are working on bipartisan basis. the president is sitting on the sidelines pretending obama is president, and pass a budget that funds our country. so unless and until they do this, then we are going to say stop right now. let's find a room. let's put the leadership of both

parties in that room. let's put the president in the room. we can resolve all of these issues by the end of this weekend with no harm done to anyone. but please, mr. president, get off the campaign trail. stop running around the country campaigning for congressional candidates. come back and be the leader. and we will negotiate with you. >> so you are saying it can be done quickly, very short shut down over the weekend but it can be done chblt i want to ask you this question. your democrat colleague, but senator feinstein said when the government shut downs, and i quote her people die accidents happen. is she wrong? are you willing to vote for a shout done and take that risk that people will die? >> if the government is shut down beginning tomorrow night, friday night, over saturday and sunday if everyone goes to the room we can have this whole deal finished on monday morning. >> let me interrupt you. officially passed the gavel is down. so trying to head it over in your direction. i'm sorry. finish your shout.

>> we can resolve this. it's been four and a half months that we've been working on a continuing resolution. c.r. it's called. c.r. under republican control and house presidency really means can't resolve. so we all understand all the issues after four and a half months. we know we have to do on opioids on daca and child health. >> they are funding the government and funding child health care for six years. which is important to you, i would assume. right. you are not getting everything but you don't have deadline to do immigration but over the next few months. so why not take the bird in hand? >> because then next month we come back again. this is the budget for the united states of america. we are in the fifth month of 12 months. they refused to sit down. we can figure out child health. and we can figure out helping the people in puerto rico. and we can figure out community health systems and figure out daca. we all understand the issues

completely. but we can't do this month after month. you can't run a business that way. you can't run a family that way. you can't run the government that way. we all understand the issues. the president, the house, and the senate are under republican control. here's the problem, erin. republican paradox is they don't believe in government. but they have to run for office in order to make sure the government doesn't work. and now we are seeing what the results are, that the republicans should sit down with themselves, the freedom caucus pulls them far to the right, no compromise with democrats, no compromise with moderates and what you end up is governmental p paralysis that threatens to shut down the government. we want to avoid this. but we want to go to the table. in the broadway musical hamilton, the key song is the room where it happens. the room where this will happen will be the president finally

inviting chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, paul ryan and mitch mcconnell into the room, they all sit down, and we can resolve all these issues in two or three days. but until the president decides he wants to be president, and not just some tweeter on the outside criticizing the process, then it's just going to go on and on with no resolution. >> the thing about this is it just keeps happening again and again. right back in 2013 pointing out when the president was blaming barack obama and saying they need add shut down. the shoe was on the other side. democrat in the white house, president obama democrats controlled the house. and threat of a shutdown over obama by republicans and it happened. senator chuck schumer said something really important to hear now. this is what he said then. >> basically, it's sort of like this, someone goes into your house, takes your wife and children hostage, and then says let's negotiate over the price of your house. you know, we can do the same thing on immigration.

we believe strongly in immigration reform. we could say we are shutting down the government. we are not going to raise the debt ceiling until you past immigration reform. it would be governmental chaos. >> okay. here we are senator democrats are about to let the government shutdown because they aren't getting immigration reform. it count be more perfect here. is this hypocrisy at its height? >> the president and the republican leadership in the house and senate are holding 700,000 young d.r.e.a.m.ers hostage to the political paralysis which the republicans have created. it is morally wrong to take these 700,000 kids, almost all of them in high school and college graduates, in the military right now, and tear ici terrorizing them and their families. so the republicans just have to accept that they now run all branches of government.

and they have a responsibility to be the leaders. and the president so far has abdicated this responsibility. stop holding these kids hostage. 90% people in the polls they conducted this morning they want these d.r.e.a.m.ers to be protected. why are you doing this mr. president? go to the room. invite in the democrat leadership. we can resolve these issues. dick durbin and lindsey graham have already created a framework. already half a dozen more republicans in the house. i mean in the senate who have shined on. that bill can pass but we need the president to give leadership and not be a kritdic critic on outside. >> thank you i appreciate your time. next punish the president for s hole comments. the man behind this is out front and breaking news about the president. and russia did the trump

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tonight several house democrats are moving to formerly censore president trump after his comments referring to several mostly nonwhite countries as s hole. out front now is congressman of new york leading the charge. thank you for joining me. you introduced this resolution to sensor the president. just so everyone understands censore is official statement of disapproval. not a punishment for removal from office. just a statement. what is the point you are trying to accomplish? >> well, what we are trying to

accomplish is to express on behalf of the congress and united states that the president's racism is his personal racism, not the racism of the united states. now we have long known that donald trump was racist from the time he was denying apartments to african-american people in brooklyn apartments in the 1970ss to his taking out a full page ad saying to be executed. to finding behind neo-nazi many fine people. what is new is he is now the president of the united states and as such his views are dangerous. and we have to repudiate them so the world knows his racist views is not the united states. and it's inkun bacumbent for usy that. >> that's another point of

conversation. actually not what the point of our conversation tonight. my point is simply what the goal is of this. andrew jackson. >> i'm sorry, i can't hear you right no you. >> can you hear me now, congressman? >> a little. go ahead. >> okay. andrew jackson is the only president to be censored by the senate. that was back in 1834. can you hear me now? >> yes. so obviously you need bipartisan to censore the president. anyone going to vote for this? >> we hope, we'll be talking to the republican leadership of the house, they control access to the floor. and we are hoping they will understand that it is incumbent on them to show that republicans and democrats do not go along with the racism of this president. that as united country we repudiate that racism and we hope they will do that and not carry o carry on what they've been doing with other respects enabling this president terrible behavior.

>> so obviously this isn't the first time you tried this i don't know if our viewers are aware of that. but back in august you tried after trump's remarks about charlottsville. and i wanted to remind everyone what the president said at that time that sparked your emotion to censore. here he is. >> but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides, you had people in that group -- excuse me, excuse me, i saw the same pictures as you did. you had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down, to them, of a very, very important statue. and renaming of a park from robert e. lee to another name. >> you did have cosponsors on that censure ship resolution related to that statement, 125 people. but again no chance of it actually passing. i guess what you are saying you don't care whether it passes you want to be on record? >> well, i hope that if this were put on the floor, it would pass. i hope that enough of my republican colleagues as well as

democrat colleagues would have the decency to vote for resolution repudiating racism. but it's in couple bept on the republican leadership to give us opportunity to vote on that and to show that the president's racism does not represent the american people or the american government. >> and before we go, i know you just voted no on the continuing resolution to keep to keep the government open and fund the child care program, are you okay with the government closing if that doesn't get through the senate? >> i'm not sure if i heard you. you are asking if i'm okay with the bill gettin through the senate, he doni don't know. >> are you okay with the government closing? >> am i okay with the government closing? no, i'm not okay with the government closing. >> but you just voted that it could. >> i did not vote for it to close.

i voted against the four continuing resolutions that haven't changed. you know, the republicans control the house, the senate and the presidency, and it's incumbent on them to pass legislation that we need. now they are refusing, they put before us a continuing resolution that doesn't deal with the priorities of the american people. the american people, by 85% to 95% want the children who are brought here, not deported, they want the children's health insurance program to be workable. which means we need funding. we didn't have any funding for community health centers or disproportionately served hospitals, which means there will be no service for these kids. it didn't deal with the health care for veterans. so i'm not going to vote for a bill that doesn't deal with what the american people want and what the american people need. and if the republicans want, want to pass the bill, let them do it with their votes. let them put in decent things

that other people can vote for. and remember, they are reputing the american people by putting out a bill that doesn't include what the american people want. >> just to be clear, there is not an immediate deadline on d.r.e.a.m.ers, if they want, they have until march. new information about the russia probe. a top democrat saying there's serious allegation about money laundering. what are they? is there anything to it? ♪ ♪ there are two types of people in the world. those who fear the future... and those who embrace it. the future is for the unafraid. ♪ all because of you

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breaking flnews in the russ investigation. glen simpson, that's the firm behind the dossier on trump, the intelligence committee releasing the transcripts tonight. and the top democrat on the committee say they reveal serious allegations that the trump organization may have engaged in money laundering with russian nationals. what else can you tell us about the testimony itself? >> well, glen simpson's testimony goes into detail about how it decided to go about hiring and bringing on christopher steele, that former british agent who did put together that russian dossier and how the firm fusion gps went about investigating what they thought was suspicious activity between people in the trump world and russia. they went into a number of areas in which there were russian

oligarchs and ties to people in trump's inner circle as well as questionable real estate transactions that occurred that, in the eyes of both simpson and democrats on the committee could lead to suggestions that there may have been money laundering via russian nationals via trump real estate deals. these are allegation laid out in this lengthy transcript after the committee agreed to release it. earlier today republicans are saying these are just allegation. there's no evidence of wrongdoing, but there's enough here that democrats say it should fuel the investigation going forward to look into any possible money ties between trump and the russians. >> the house intelligence committee was supposed to meet with hope hicks. that was abruptly postponed. do you know why? >> the reason why, there were concerns within the committee

that perhaps you could pull a steve bannon. bannion ban bannon refused to answer questions saying that the white house had not authorized him to speak about those times in order to preserve its use of executive privilege. the committee was uncertain whether hope hicks would do the same thing. tomorrow erin, that testimony was abruptly canceled and they are saying it's another effort to derail this investigation. >> i want to go to richard painter, richard, if the trump organization did engage in money laundering with russian nationals as is suggested here, if, how much trouble could president trump be in? and i guess if there's no quid pro quo for helping the campaign, it just happened that there was money laundering at some point, what does that mean for the president?

>> money laundering is a criminal offense. this isn't the first time we've heard this brought up as steve bannon referred to the russian investigation focussing on money laundering in his interviews in the michael wolff book. and we see that president trump is very upset anytime robert mueller wanting to get near his money, and i think we know why. and i think we know why robert mueller wants to do exactly that. now who gets in trouble depends on who engaged in the money laundering, who authorized it if there was money laundering, whether it occurred, whether the statute of limitations has passed or not, but money laundering is a very serious criminal offense when it does occur. so we'll find out who, if anybody engaged in money lon derring a -- laundering and what the consequences are. >> if it doesn't lead to

collusion itself, what does that mean for the president? >> you don't need a quid pro quo for money laundering, it's violation of federal statutes. >> so a sitting president could be prosecuted for that, separate from collusion? >> oh, absolutely. money laundering takes place with regularity. it has nothing to do with collusion on federal elections, but it could be related. it could involve money laundering, that's what robert mueller's going to find out, certainly within the proper scheme of his investigation. but we'll find out what money laundering did occur if it did occur. but there need not be any quid pro quo. it need not have anything to do with an election to be a criminal offense. >> thank you very much. that makes a lot of questions people would have had here clear. thank you. and the breaking news, the

continuing resolution to keep the government open passing the house. now to a completely uncertain what's going to happen here in the senate. the government of course could close in 24 hours. don't forget, you can watch the show anytime on cnn go. anderson picks up our coverage now. this is cnn breaking news. >> good evening, thanks for joining us. we're picking up on the breaking news, the house voting minutes ago to pass a short-term funding bill. it comes after no shortage of gop infighting and confusion over what the president really wants. democrats say they have the votes to block it in the senate, and if they do or if republicans can't agree among themselves and a shutdown happens, that would make history, the first time ever when the party controls the white house. we continue our coverage from the capitol.