phil wisen berg, former deck director of whitewater, byron york for the political analysis, from the washington examiner, and fox news contributor. some one who's done more reporting than most people on the fafgts plan oat the russian investigation, saul. now, you read the indictment, tonight, what you just heard from one of roger stone's lawyers tells you what? >> well, he's acting like any good defense lawyer would act. i look at the indictment and obviously, if he really did, the strongest parts of the indictment are the allegations of lying directly to congress. the weakest part has to do with the so-called intimidation of one of the others who was testifying. i look at the indictment, all of these indictments that are for lying, it's not that lying isn't a serious crime, like you say, but in the grand scheme of things p you're looking at what is really being supposedly ultimately investigated, criminal conspiracy, there's a term of art in criminal defense world for these kinds of charges. it's two words, the first word is chicken and the last word ends in "it." that's what most

we'll bring in our panel to deal with the news of this day, byron york chief political correspondent of the "washington examiner," josh crush, and matthew continetti editor in chief of "the washington free beacon." your thoughts, it doesn't seem like this is any different from what was on the table a while ago. >> this shutdown was over a border barrier. the president demanded congress had to give him money for the barrier or else he would keep the government shut. now he has agreed to reopen the government without getting any money for the border barrier. the short version is hello see won and trump lost. the white house and its defense says they believe there are a number of democrats on capitol hill that would approve money for a border barrier and that's right, there really are such democrats but the leadership -- nancy pelosi has not changed, absolutely nothing for the wall position. she has not changed her position that walls are "immoral," and by not giving an inch, she has just won. it's not clear why the white house things after winning she would start making concessions. >>

former deputy independent counsel and byron york for the political analysis chief political respondent for the washington examiner and fox contributor and someone who's done more reporting that most people on the face of the plane on the face of this russian investigation. you read tonight the indictment and what you just heard from on of roger stones lawyers tells you what? >> well, he's acting like any good defense lawyer would act. a look at the indictment and obviously, if he really did the strongest parts of the indictment are the allegations of lying directly to congress the weakest part has to do with the so-called intimidation of one of the others who was testifying. i look at the indictment, all o these indictments for lying. it's not that lying is no serious crime, but in the grand scheme of things, if you're looking at what is really being supposedly, ultimately investigated, criminal conspiracy, there is the remark criminal defense for these types of charges. the first word is chicken and the last word ends with it. it's not a gestapo raid, it's not an alien gonzÁlez rate g

that's how it's always been >>> joining me now to answer the question of who is actually winning, byron york, joel ruben, and jeffrey lord. jeff, pelosi and trump, they're playing the same exact game, each has different powers. who right now has the upper the hand? >>> the president has. memo to nancy pelosi and the media. this is the best line i've heard all day from someone else. never troll the king of trolls! and they went out there thinking that they could get away with this stunt. and it was a stunt. he called them on it. now they look like, you know, fools, to be perfectly honest. i mean they've got red faces. this is childish behavior. they got caught at what they're doing. they went and part i did in puerto rico, she went to hawaii for christmas. they're making one misstep after another and this is serious business. they ought to stay there and get the job done. >> laura: byron i have actually a thought on this. the more i've been thinking about the shut down, it's really tough for people that don't get a paycheck, hard for people trying to deal with all that uncertain uncertain unc

it does appear somebody last night was talking about it to "the new york times." >> shannon: byron, adon't put a lot of stock in the "new york times" these days. that's how they feel about it. >> this whole situation, you have to remember the reason that democrats felt the confidence to leave now is that they feel confident in their poll numbers. significantly more americans blame president trump for the shutdown than blame pelosi and the democrats. a number of observers thought if the democrats continue to be intransigent, perhaps the numbers would even up. democrats, i don't think they would be acting this way unless they had the polls showing them that so far, they are winning this standoff. >> shannon: just before our 11:00 show last night, we had headlines about buzz feed saying, president trump directed michael cohen to lie to congress with the moscow tower project. today, we have folks saying, listen, we believe our sources but, no, we haven't seen this for ourselves. rudy giuliani said, any suggestion from any source that the president counseled michael cohen to lie is categor

byron york tweets much analysis of the trump letter to nancy pelosi is childish, playground, no argument here, just yesterday nancy pelosi is equally childless gesture was characterized as playing hardball. a double standard? >> just a little bit but in this case the gauntlet was thrown by donald trump in his previous meeting with house speaker nancy pelosi when he is the one who shut down the government. he said i'm going to shut down the government, i will own it. he started the ball rolling with the democrats because he didn't get his campaign promise done in two years with republicans in control. nancy pelosi set up two years negotiating with the president, that is what is going on. >> this is pettiness in both directions. and no denying that. it was childish the way he did it. nancy pelosi did her own thing, effectively disinvited the president from giving the state of the union address, and based on security concerns that were totally bogus. she was told the secret service and dhs contradicted her, she said i don't care what they say which is not a good look for her. nancy pelosi w

the national security adviser john bolton and washington examiner's chief political correspondent byron york, welcome to you both. let's start with the issue the president is trying to hide something when it comes to meetings with vladimir putin. stephen collins says if trump doesn't have anything to hide why does he hide vladimir putin interactions of his own staff? goes on to say of as the white house is trump has no compromised relationship with russia why does he go out of his way to hide his interactions with vladimir putin? does he not trust his own team not to be details of their meeting? is he hiding details from senior officials? >> the story has spun out of control and is former executive secretary the president's senior staff new everything in the meeting in germany between vladimir putin and the president, everything in helsinki between the president and vladimir putin. the real issue is the president took extraordinary measures to stop leaks and officials in this government, the deep state who want to leak this information, they are the people talking to the washington post and

byron york in washington my latte was outstanding this morning. no indication of how i vote or when i vote but my latte was good. >> sandra: things changed over the weekend and that field of democrats is growing. >> bill: yes, it is. if we can keep track. >> sandra: breaking news on the talks underway now between afghanistan officials and the taliban. what it could mean for american troops overseas. plus this. >> now it's time for every other nation to pick a side. no more delays or games. either you stand with the forces or freedom or in league with maduro. >> bill: the trump team doubling down on support for the opposition leader. if danger comes to any american in that country. we'll have more on that. >> sandra: a wild case of road rage caught on cell phone camera. the details straight ahead. >> i thought he was going to run over me and i don't -- i don't think he stopped. he tried to get me to slide off. i wasn't getting off the car. alright, i brought in ensure max protein... to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you don't.

joining me now to answer the question of who was actually winning, byron york, chief political correspondent from the "washington examiner," joel rubin former debbie deputy secf state. pelosi and trump are playing the exact same game, each has different powers but who right now has the upper hand? >> in a memo nancy pelosi to the media, this is the best line i've heard all day from someone else -- "never trolled the king of trolls." they went out there thinking they could get away with this stunt and he called them on it and they look like fools to be perfectly honest. they have red faces, this is childish behavior, they got caught at what they're doing, they partied in puerto rico, she went off to hawaii for christmas -- they are making one misstep after one other -- this is serious business they are to stay there and get the job done. >> laura: i have a thought on this, it's really tough for people who don't get a paycheck, hard for people to deal with all of that uncertainty but as a political matter, i think this plays out a lot like obamacare in the end. the longer this debate goes on,

let's bring in byron york, chief political correspondent of the "washington examiner."l post. and national security analyst morgan ortagus. >> the president has been talking about those military option for a while now. it is totally unclear how much money out of the military budget might be able to use. i don't think anyone thinks it's a big amount, not $35 million. it could end up being tested. i think another interesting thing to think about it, this is unusual and new situation for nancy pelosi, too. cheeseman speaker of the house before but she was speaker of the house for four years between 2,007 on '11 have the majority in the senate, for the last two years when they had a g majority in the senate. in 2011 when republicans took over the house, the new house g.o.p. passed a lot of stuff that went nowhere and the democratic senator with a democratic white house. i think we could be in for quite a long standoff. >> bret: karen? >> i do think the emergency powers that he is talking about do need to be defined a little more clearly. the constitution certainly does get

california and new york and so on and it works for them but these are competitive races, they were talking about things that matter to their constituents, like n health care. >> jason: byron were also out there talking about -- cuomo pardoned 20 plus people so that they could get out of having to be deported. is that a winning message outside of maybe the liberal new york or california? >> this speech was delivered at ellis island to send an immigration message. here again, it's all about trump. put aside the question of whether all of these pardons or commutations were justified. some of them involve people who were convicted of murder. put aside that question, here again, you have states of trying to make their own immigration laws. we saw this again before donald trump appeared, the whole sanctuary city thing did. they are trying to make the own immigration laws, in particular because they dislike this president. >> jason: do you think that will hurt the governor if you decide to do anything else out there, pardoning these people? >> do i think that pardoning joe arpaio for contempt of court, pardoning people who basically misused -- lied to the cia, what donald trump

>> byron york is live on the phone right now. i want to get your reaction.his past week, i believe it was last sunday that jonathan carl, a careful reporter at abc news, said that he was hearing the mueller report was going to be anti-climactic and there wasn't necessarily going to be a bombshell. this buzz feed report comes out a few days later suggesting there is a bombshell coming from mueller. it looks like mueller's office has put that on and stopped it in its tracks, byron. >> very unusual for robert mueller's office to do that. this was really probably the most spectacular big, if true, story that we have had in in whole trump/russia affair. it is not super surprising that mueller might make an effort to correct the record. we do know some things that are going on in this cohen case through the court filings that we've seen. we have seen the charges against michael cohen. we have seen his plea. we have seen his sentencing memo, which was from last december. if you look at that, the lawyers for michael cohen came flat out and said, president trump dire

in the "washington examiner"'s chief political examiner, byron york. good evening to you both. let's start with the issues of the president is trying to hide something when it comes to meetings with putin. steven collison says this, if he doesn't have anything to hide, why does he hide interactions from his own staff? if as the white house says he has no compromised relationship with russia, why does he go out of his way to hide his interactions with putin? to see perhaps not trust his own team to leaked details of their meetings. is he hiding details from senior officials? >> this story has really spun out of control and i can say is a former executive secretary and chief of staff that the president's senior staff knew everything in the meeting in germany between putin and the president. everything in the meeting in helsinki between the president and putin. the real issue here is that the president took extraordinary measures to stop leaks and officials in this government, that is, the deep state, who wanted to leak this information, they are the people who were talking to "th

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brian: byron york pointed out the tough on border, school of thought prior to donald trump talk aboutted states got more hispanic supporters than mitt romney did. number two, seems to be surging here. people understand has nothing to do where you're from. it has to do with our security. nothing against any country or any race of people. byron york points out, the reason why nancy pelosi is not budging, the overall polls show the democrats are winning this. ainsley: in december, the latino support was 31%. yesterday, the latino support was 50%. steve: also asked, which comes closer to your point of view. 63% said that elected officials should make compromises and 31% say stick to their positions. it would be interesting if "the washington post" abc come out with another poll last week when they came out with the poll showed 82% of americans had not been impacted at all by the government shut down. is that a different number this week? don't know. ainsley: a lot of people go to the polls stick to whatever the positions are, whatever the promises are. when there is stalemate, they can't

byron york, thanks very much. we'll have much more on the situation on the ground at the border with customs and border protection coming up. >> sandra: a lot of questions what happened over the weekend and the last couple of days. looking forward to having him on. another big story we're watching this morning. illegal immigrant accused of shooting and killing a california police officer during a traffic stop makes his first court appearance today. arriaga was arrested friday trying to flee to mexico. more on the west coast newsroom on this. >> we expect prosecutors to charge that mexican national and illegal immigrant arriaga with killing police officer singh the day after christmas. he was arrested 200 miles south of where he allegedly shot officer singh after being stopped for drunk driving. motive is a mystery. under california's state law police cannot call ice for deportation on a drunk driving charge. >> law enforcement would have been prevented, prohibited from sharing any information with ice about this c

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byron georging. york. susan page and holly hemmingway.e needs to do? >> he has really only one real job which is to try to convince americans there really is a crisis at the border. democrats say no there is not. the number of people who are crossing illegally into the u.s. is smaller than years ago. that is true. but the white house will argue that the nature of those crossing the border has changed. in the past it was single men mostly who could be caught and returned to mexio. now two-thirds of that flow are women, children and families. they can't returned. in other words, once they cross into the united states, the chances of sending them back to mexico or their home country are very, very low. that changed everything the white house is arguing. can the president convince americans that constitutes a crisis? that's his big job. >> bret: we will see. in 8 minutes. susan, the senate majority leader saying what changed? a lot of democrats voted for border security. listen to this. >> maybe the democratic party was for secure borders bef

here is byron york. fox news contributor. how are you? here is the tweet from the president. it is becoming more and more obvious that the radical democrats are a party of open borders and crime. they want nothing to do with major humanitarian crisis on our southern border, #2020. both sides are still in their respective corners, byron? >> they are. we have seen some democrats have painted themselves into a corner. the president tried to do an end run around the democratic house leadership this week and invited a number of members of the house over to the white house for lunch. they unanimously refused, would not come, which makes them appear somewhat intransigent. that may have to do with members of the problem-solvers caucus, a group of centrists and bipartisan house members aren't going to the white house to meet with the president today. the problem is, they don't have any power. the republicans are in the minority. the democrats are not the democratic leadership. we'll see if anything results. >> bill: it doesn't seem like the problem solvers have had a very good track r

byron york is looking at that. what do you think about it? >> aoc is 29 years old. member of congress for 27 days and helping set much of the democratic party agenda, i think, because she gets so much media coverage. she has brought a lot of attention to ideas like abolishing ice, like medicare for all, like a green new deal. these are all hot topics among democrats and she is part of the reason why that happened. >> bill: michael bloomburg was in new hampshire. he had a good turnout. we watched the numbers as they dip their toes in the water. he said the following about her ideas. >> i'm a little bit tired of listening to things that are pie in the sky that we never are going to pass or afford. i think it's just disingenuous to promote those things. you have to do something that's practical. >> bill: he got my attention by pie in the sky. he is mr. climate change. he has led that charge here in new york and around the world. >> and mr. gun control as well. that sort of realistic message that medicare for all is pie in the sky or green new deal is pie in the sky, th

byron york, good day to you. couldn't do steel. a whole lot of meetings. how much movement. >> nothing. it appears that absolutely nothing is going on. there is movement on one side, which is the white house side, which the president has given up completely on the idea of a concrete wall, which truth be told is something that the security expert thought was a bad idea from the get-go. and the president is also saying well, we'll put in money for other stuff. wealth -- we will put in money for other things at the border. the democratic leadership are basically stuck in a no go position. and the question will be is there going to be some split among those democrats between nancy pelosi, who says that a wall is not only bad policy but that it is immoral, and other democrats who maybe don't go that far. >> bill: there has been a lot of meetings. some went out to camp david. i don't know why you had to go to camp david. perhaps there was progress there. what you're suggesting and what we're hearing we aren't moving forward on this. if you're in day 19 right now

byron wien of blackstone. the selloff getting more and more negative as we speak. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: live from new yorkm vonnie quinn. guy: in london, i'm guy johnson. this is "bloomberg markets." vonnie: we are seeing this real selloff today. in the s&p 500, bristol-myers squibb the worst performer, down 14% after announcing a merger with celgene. celgene performing well, but off its highs. we have to see if bristol-myers squibb shareholders move for the merger. guy: they are voting with their feet right now. maybe the market doesn't believe this deal ultimately ends up going through. slammed, itsg supply chain is being slammed. the market is trading decent volume today. we are trading above our normal averages. to the downside is being backed by volume. more on the markets, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: live from new york, i'm vonnie quinn. guy: from london, i'm guy johnson. this is "bloomberg markets." nancy: on capitol hill, pelosi is preparing to once again become speaker of the house. she tells nbc news that president trump cannot persuade her to help fund his wall on the mexican border. pel

byron has been watching it all new york. let's get some information on the russian report. judge jeanine asked the president about it on saturday night. here is how part of that went. >> i am going to ask you. are you now or have you ever worked for russia, mr. president? >> i think it is the most insulting thing i have ever been asked. i think it is the most insulting article i have ever had written. if you read the article, you would see they found absolutely nothing. >> bill: what democrats are saying is that he did not say no to the question. you can interpret his response as forcefully as it was. byron, what is your read on that? >> well, i would not be surprised if he does say no at some point in the future. it would have been a very simple answer to say, no. the important thing about this "new york times" article is that it does say that no evidence has publicly emerged to show that president trump was in touch with russian officials secretly or was somehow being directed by them or anything like that. >> bill: i have the quite right here. no evidence was emerged tha