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i was just watching chuck e. cheese on tv, where he's talking about all these things are going on a in new shares no blame for anything. he is just holier than thou. me. amazing to i think that schumer and his democrats have totally lost reality and lies are and he thinks the american people are going to take it. enough of this daca stuff. i'm a cuban i came here with a valid visa and i had to wait my turn. i never took any government benefits. i worked hard and i'm paying for all this stuff when american children of my own kids are having to be cut back because we are providing services for people that don't belong here. it is the law, it is our law. if the democrats don't like it, and they had all these years under obama. this is the obama disaster that we've had to continuously clean up on. it's absolutely sickening. but this is not trumped disaster. the president is doing with the president ran on, and what we do is just what he was elected to do. enough of it. we have a country, we don't have the world. we a

after chuck e. cheese, i worked at a daycare with a lot of undocumented women there for almost a decade, sometimes, working without documents like me. at the same time, i already graduated from arizona state university. so i was pretty much stuck at a job getting paid less the minimum wage in arizona. and also with a diploma that i couldn't use. that really is one of the very first experiences that got me very, very angry at why i could not use my degree. working at a day care, i loved those babies, but it was really hard. it was not what i wanted to do. i am grateful that happened, because it pushed me to figure out how to make it better for me and for other women. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. it is an incredible honor to be here among women. dishest job was washing at the mall. i moved out of my house when i was six and and was going to c -- ior old time -- to s moved out of my house when i was and was going to school full-time. i was a punk rocker, had bright orange hair, and a shaved he

theydown nearly 21%, and own -- is basically a chuck e. cheese for adults.hey put up a same-store called for fourth quarter to date that is down. you can see this is waiting on the entire restaurant space. david: it is a pretty ugly board you have got up there, abigail. thanks so much. shery: coming up, lawmakers are inching closer to another spending deadline. will they be forced to punt again on the bill? representative scott taylor will join us next. this is bloomberg. ♪ s is bloomberg. ♪ shery: this is "bloomberg markets: balance of power," i am shery ahn. and i am david westin. one of the biggest obstacles is how to handle so-called dreamers, people who were brought to this country when it were still children. representative scott taylor sits appropriations committee. good to have you with us. rep. taylor: good to be with you. i am a national security guy. it is good to have security for our borders. i agree with the president, quite frankly, when we are talking about having more money for security on the wall, if you will come whether that is technolog

my first job without papers was at a chuck e. cheese restaurant. ishink for me, this question -- it really informs a lot of my frustration that i developed as an undocumented woman. cheese, i worked at a daycare with a lot of undocumented women who were there for over a decade sometimes working without , documents like me. at the same time, i already graduated from arizona state university. so i was pretty much stuck at a job getting paid less than andmum wage in arizona, also with a diploma that i couldn't use. so that really is one of the first experiences that got me i couldn't usehy my degree, working in a daycare. i loved those babies, but it was really hard, it was not what i wanted to do. but i am grateful that it happened because it pushed me to figure out how to make that better, not just for me but for other women. [applause] >> good morning everyone, it is an incredible honor to be here and be among this group of women. job was in olympia, washington, washington should at the mall. i moved out of my house when i was 16, and i was working

abigail: chuck e. cheese for adults. joe: except without the animatronics, mechanical animals.bigail: in any case, they missed in terms of revenues. they're bringing down the guidance. they alluded to this on the third quarter call saying november and december were getting off to a weak start and this happens. they will be speaking at the icr conference tomorrow. scarlet: what was the likely problem here for dave and buster's?abigail the holiday is season because everyone is talking about the fact that this is the best holiday in a decade, so consumers may be shopping on gifts as opposed to experiences. interestingly, analysts are positive. if we happen to the bloomberg. jump into the gd function to see the overall landscape of what is happening, first of all, here is the plunge down 22%. truly underperforming. the volume is above the 20 day volume. this is what i really want to point out. there are not a lot of analysts out there, but perhaps they are getting a bit of the past with the idea that the holiday season, and set of consumers spending on dave and buster's -- joe: eve

just remember there was a government shutdown a couple days ago and they were frustr e frustrated as chuck schumer negotiated a deal with republicans and didn't really, they feel, what was the deal? what did democrats get out of that? and i think that when you take a step back from this, if there isn't some comprehensive reform on daca come february 5th, we'll see who is going to be leading the democratic party. they will be thrust into the spotlight ahead of the 2020 election. >> that is looming large. kevin cirilli, stay with us. we have much more to talk about this morning. >>> and why president trump is fighting to keep this a secret. that's up next. asked how they like their eggs, we're pretty sure no one's ever said microwaved. you deserve a breakfast made with respect. try the new bacon, egg, and cheese on brioche. panera. food as it should be. not in this house. 'cause that's no average family. that's your family. which is why you didn't grab just any cheese. you picked up kraft mozzarella with a touch of philadelphia for lasanyeah! kraft. family greatly. >>> new developments in th

. >> en nueva york algunos activistas e chapo la culpa a chuck schumer por no pelear con ellos hastaen su conciencia que cada dÍa estÁn perdiendo su estatus 122 dreamers que quedan en el limbo. >> la organizaciÓn chirla coalition for humane immigrant rights of los angeles quiero seguir negociando daca pero no a cambio del muro fropt rizzo. >> ya tenemos 20 aÑos de puro castigo para la comunidad ahora es tiempo de una propuesta limpia un "dream act" que pro temaing a la comunidad. >> tras recibir la noticia grupos no han querido perder nada, padre de tres hijos pechos acudiÓ hoy a renovar daca porque es de vida o muerte para su familia. >> descuentos aÑos. >> uno 4 el mayor y el segundo un aÑo. >> wow! >> dependen todos de ti. >> sÍ. >> son muchos aÑos de angustia. >> luiz cruz dice sentirse traicionado por los polÍticos asegura que otra vez le dieron la espalda. >> los grupos pro in mi frapts advierten que van a seguir en las calles para que sede una acciÓn diferida lima pa, en los Ángeles edgar muÑoz noticias telemundo. >> el acuerdo entre demÓcratas y republicanos pone final cierre

bill clinton agrees, i will e-mail you and the rift is redacted -- rest is redacted. breaking it down, they are saying according to chuckssley, the messages they, at fbi will take is easy on hillary clinton, remember peter strzok on that hillary clinton e-mail probe, it looks like he was talking to bill spadea too. bill clinton too. >> that is shocking but not surprising. we have seen this coming out of the doj time and again, loretta lynch met with bill spadea in a plane in a tarmac in phoenix, arizona, at the time there were reports comes out of "new york times" saying that hillary clinton of the talking about keeping lynch on if she were to win presidency, this is behavior that is typical that we saw from bureaucrats in the justice department, that is unfortunate, justice is supposed to be blind. but the apersonally are not -- apparently are not and looking ahead, and placing bets on that, instead of correcting and delivering justs they are doing it you know to please the important they think will be in power. liz: can we bring script back down, i want to go over that text-message. make sure i have it right, you can

chuck schumer understands after his humiliating e defeat if there's no wall, there's no daca.ve safety and security together with the strong military for our great people. let's bring in robert costa for the "washington post". let me get your sense here. a lot of people saying. >> knowing we may have leverage in just a couple week when is the latest spending bill expires on february 8th. he also knows the democratic base is is clambering for some kind of secure legislation for these dreamers, the thousands of undocumented immigrants. he has to navigate carefully. he knows he's in the minority. there's only so much he can get with the political dynamics. >> we heard a lot about trust over the shutdown. you lock forward. do you have a clear sense of what the white house wants. a month ago, they reported on the meeting in the oval office back in june. in which they positive had sol conflicted sympathy here. do you have a sense of what the white house wants to see as a result of all this? >> that's the core problem here. it's very difficult to negotiate with someone who does not e

chuck schumer. running in your direction e is clearly for midterms. risk disturbing that when actually your caucus is, if you look at it, objectively forcing a shutdown of the government? and codifying daca is definitely very popular. shutting down the government to try to force the codification of daca, as a cnn poll showed today, is not necessarily very popular. and people are almost always irritated by shutdowns, and you know, starting tonight if nothing gets done, the blame game will begin. >> to piggyback on that comment, look, as a republican campaign operative, i don't want the government to shutdown down, but i actually like we're having a policy fight because these are policy fights that we win. we're talking about taxes, if we're talking about immigration, in fact, in these senate states, we're not talking about tweets and we're not talking about a book and those sorts of things. this is the zone. what nancy pelosi and chuck schumer will bring to congress is exactly what republicans want to talk about for the next 11 months. so democrats are

e. coyote in road runner. the idiotic move by chuck schumer to shut down the government to help illegal immigrants was a wildly unpopular, it quickly fell through. even by friday, more understood the truth that they put the interest of dr. people head of the well-being of our men and women in our arms and forces. think about this way, imagine being deployed in afghanistan. maybe you're on your multiple deployments, you're away from your family for several months, and then you find out that the fools on the hill are more worried about illegal aliens that about you and your family. that must feel really good. it's disgraceful. all it took was mcconnell promising to work on the immigration issue until februars resolved by then, to have a free and open debate on immigration, including a daca fix. >> it ends the shutdown and restores full funding for the federal government through february the eighth. if an agreement isn't reached by february the eighth, the senate will immediately proceed to consideration of legislation dealing with daca.

room where it happens and in that room jefferson and madison and hamilton cut the dual e deal and it's time to have chuckchumer, mitch mcconnell, nancy pelosi in the room where it happens and that he said that he will resolve it for the well being of the american people. that is what everyone in our country wants right now. and hopefully donald trump now realized that he is the only one that could put that room together. >> massachusetts democratic senator ed markey. thank you for your time, sir. good luck. >>> just one more thing, you heard the senator arguing there would not be a significant impact on the military. we see from senator john mccain who just tweeted, he has not been here fighting brain cancer but as a result of the congress's failure to reach a bipartisan budget agreement we are facing the possibility of a shut down or another continuing resolution, either option will have disastrous consequences for the military. hasht hashtag pass a budget from john mccain. >>> we are going to continue to follow the breaking news. including, by the way, senator bob menendez, prosecutors notifying the co

meanwhile, the former fbi director in charge of that botched e-mail investigation is accused by the senate judiciary committee chairman chuckrassley, of leaking classified documents to a columbia university professor. house intelligence committee chair devin nunes able to break through fbi stone walling gaining access to documents related to the russia investigation that he first asked for back in august of last year. congressman nunez is trying to determine whether the bureau used the discredited trump dossier to begin its investigation of the president. and speaking of the dossier, it's not been a good week for the authors of that smear effort. a federal court ruling the cofounders of fusion gps will have to hand over banks r records to congress giving lawmakers a chance to follow the money behind the document. and just hours ago senators sens grassley and graham asking the department of justice to open an investigation of christopher steele, the british spy who supplied the phony so-called intelligence that went into the dossier which was fabricated. our first guest says congress has an obligation to expose the deep stat

e*trade. the original place to invest online. lou: senator chuck schumer now facing a backlash from dems extremely unhappy with him, i guess, because he caved on daca. and today the minority leader says he's yanked the offer he made to president trump to fund the border wall. >> president trump's inability to negotiate with congress is what caused the three-day government shutdown from which we've just emerged. it's causing the fact that we're not making more progress on these issues. we're going to have to start, start on a new basis and the wall offer is off the table. lou: well, i guess what you're looking at is not only a guy who folded when trump put on the pressure, but now he's crying and taking away his football. amazing. amazing. this is the leader of the dems. no one they screw everything they touch-up. president trump today dismissed the fake reports by the way about tensions with his chief of staff, john kelly. the president tweeted this, thank you to general john kelly who's doing a fantastic job and all of the staff and others in the

released by senate judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley and suggests that senior fbi officials were concerned that being too tough on hillary clinton for her eail use could come back to hurt them if she were elected president. u now some of those fierce advocates are saying that the texts are renewing implications that the top officials never intended to pursue the charges. peter truck and lisa paige were thought to be lost but the doj inspector general says they were able to recover them. some republicans believe special counsel robert mueller's investigation into possible russian collusion during the presidential election is biased because both strzok and page worked briefly on the russia probe and many of their texts suggests on anti-trump sentiment. >> -- investigation of what went on at the doj and fbi. >> and the strzok/page texts show in march of 2016 some officials were proposing to name patrick fitzgerald as a possible prosecutor of a clinton e-mail probe. however he was never appointed despite the republicans calling for it. senator grassley says the timing of the text release is disconcerting as this is the attorney general defend

chuck schumer because he's changed his position. i want you to listen to what he said back in the team name e. >> it should not simply be family relationshipsdetermine who comes here. this bill says that if you have a skill that american need, we are going to expect to you. >> , senator schumer -- a much younger senator schumer in 1890 talking about chain migration come in the visa lottery system, completely different stance on those issues and now he's doubling down on daca and taking the democratic party in the wrong direction because of it. >> absolutely. he's leading the tea leaves for where the party is in trying to get ahead of it. democrats recognize immigrants can be a very strong part of their base going into the midterm elections as well as 2020. they want a sharper base by providing protections for legal immigrants. i think just the headlines of the progressive outlets yesterday suggest a lot of activists think senator schumer caved. i am really pleased certainly that the chip program is funded for the next six years is fantastic. a lot of these folks are looking for a decision on daca, not just shape. the new headline stories gr

jared kushner, who got an e-mail saying the same thing, and went to a meeting. contrast that with lindsey graham and chuck grassley, who see christopher steele tried to blow the whistle, and refer him for criminal charges, try to have him prosecuted and sent to jail. it really is i would say a shameful moment for those two members of the 93. >> well said. matt miller, frank piglusi, thank you both. >>> for more on russian efforts to block the dossier testimony from being released, msnbc contributor jennifer rubin, conservative columnist for "the washington post." and evan mcmullin, independent presidential candidate in 2016, who also happens to be a former cia officer. i'm going to start with you, evan. what do you make of this? you just heard lindsey graham again demonizing christopher steele, who made it his business, he's not even an american citizen, to try to inform the fbi that he thought there could be blackmail happening against an american presidential candidate. then finding out there was an insider in the trump campaign that was saying the same thing. what do you make of the idea that republica

a young age deportation -- from deportation. ,e were talking midafternoon there had not yet been discussions between paul ryan, mitch mcconnell, and chuckchumer. i think they are letting the dust settled, and they are trying to see how their members are reacting to the shutdown. that is one of the reasons why these leadership talks have not begun in earnest yet, because i think leaders on both sides of the aisle wants to know what their leaders are willing to do. as we discussed a while ago, some democrats are saying, we don't need a deal on daca. if we get disaster relief, the children health insurance program extension, that may be enough. the problem is, that is something that divides the caucus. i spoke to durban, he says -- i spoke to durbin. he says any deal that leaves the dreamers out would be inaccurate. he is trying to figure out what his caucus cap except, and they are divided. host: we are talking with alex bolton of "the hill" newspaper. the headline, the fight turns ugly. nationalratic committee has launched a digital effort against five republicans shut down theotes government. of course, both senators cruise -- they'rear

e republican party. i think we have about three republican senators right now, saying they are not going to support the bill, chuck that democrats have enough votes to block the bill. now this not that controversial of a vote, it probably will not include daca protection. it is not going to benefit democrat to vote against the budget, over kind of an unrelated issue, this is a deadline they have until march to fulfill, right there there are democrats that could be in a tough position if they block this bill. charles: december 7 vote had a huge amount of democrats who voted for it. december 22 was slimmer margin. to emily's point, if there is a shut down, map the maybe they wn the blame game. it is irrelevant. they move further from key promises to their constituent. >> for example they have explain to their constituent why theyn 't wan want to pass a child tax credited, their answer would be, it also helps wealthy people. they are prepared to do battle, saying they will take away health insurance from 9 million children and use that as a political football to help the illegal immigrants. and even more with the tro

senate minority leader chuck shumer slamming the plan, calling it a tool to tear apart our legal immigration system. chief congressional correspondent mike e manuel is live on capitol hill. mike, what is the response from president trump on this? >> reporter: well, dana, president trump took a swipe at the senate democratic leader on twitter saying daca has been increasingly difficult, made increasingly difficult by the fact that crying chuck shumer took such a beating over the shutdown that he is unable to act on immigration. the president spoke more seriously about the immigration issue during his address to the world economic forum. >> we will defend our citizens and our borders. we are also securing our immigration system as a matter of both national and economic security. america is a cutting edge economy. but our immigration system is stuck in the past. >> reporter: you saw the outline of the plan last night. this is just the start of the president and his team making his pitch for these immigration principles. dana? >> dana: the president is talking about what chuck shumer said, but what are other democrats saying? there are some th

come out on one of of the bills, then that bill e - will go to the house -- i have no idea what the house will do and it will go present. what senator chuck schumer wanted and i don't blame you for trying. he wanted us to drop everything and do a bill only on daca and guarantee it would pass the senate and guarantee it would pass the house and guarantee that the president will sign and it does not work that way. >> right, which is why a lot of progressive parties which will agree with your friends in louisiana saying they did get their butts kicked. they do believe that. >> let me defend senator schumer and i cannot believe i am doing this. >> go ahead. >> schumer is very smart and shrewd tactician. he believed tactically of what he's doing. you can believe that two plus two equals five but it does not make it correct. this was the wrong approach. he final i want to thank him for doing what was best for the american people. >> for the other democrats and other senators, should they trust your republican leader, should they trust mitch mcconnell of his words, uses his intention to take up the immigration. >> yes, yes. >> okay. . categorica

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e horwitz. he is writing to senior senate republicans so senator ron johnson who chairs government and homeland security as well as chuck grassley. it horwitz is not household name but he is really an essential player to both the email casey n the russia case. about a year ago he was tasked with doing an investigation of the fbi's handling and the justice department's handling of the email case and it was through that investigation that he uncovered these anti-trump texts between demoted agent peter strzok and the fbi lawyer lisa page. according to the two page letter that has gone to the hill, they've been able to recover some of the texts during this critical time period of decembe7 went special counsel robert mueller was appointed. what he confirms in the letter is they took physical custody of the phones and were able to obtain the text messages. the office of the inspector general has been investigating this matter and in this week succeeded in using forensic tools to uncover text messages from fbi devices including text messages that were sent and received between december 2016 and may of 2017 2017. our efforts to

e*trade. the original place to invest online. shortfallback. we had a lot of news this week. but i want to thank chuckadison for playing along. we will be right back on the beat". >>> let me tell you one more thing on the topic of russian meddling. this sunday kara swisher and i have a town hall with the ceos of google of youtube about the future of tech and protecting our elections. >> when we look at elections and stuff, democracy depends on these things working well. all of us are obviously very upset that the somebody cod have influenced the elections and any part we have played we want to understand it, fix it, we have more elections coming. we're all working hard at it. >> that exclusive conversations airs this sunday 9:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. "hardball" starts right now. >> you're fired! let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. when in doubt, donald trump does what he does best. >> you're fired. >> nbc news has confirmed the bombshell "new york times" reporting that president trump ordered the firing last june of robert s. mueller but ultimately backed down after

different sides because of course you have chuck schumer's office saying the opposite, saying there was a deal on the table and that it was the president who sort of e reneged on that deal. you were asked about this during the briefing and we just heard mulvaney say that schumer offered the president $1.6 billion to fund the border wall. the president said that's not nearly enough, that's not what i asked for. this is what max house, schumer's spokesperson had to say. absolutely not, that's now how it went down. the president put the number on the table and that's what was discussed. so why these differing accounts? who's right here? >> kristen, let's step back because i imagine this is frustrating for a lot of americans, frustrating for us too. white house puts forth a budget in february, which we did, congress supposed to complete appropriations process to fund september, we're now in january ready to submit for fiscal '19 and haven't solved fiscal year '18 funding. but to your account to what transpired yesterday, if in fact senator schumer is willing to put on the table full funding of the wall that will require basically what the custom border

chuck was suffering from ptsd. ahead in our next landfall hour how he recovered what he and his wife are now doing to raise awareness and help other veterans. ewife are now doing to raise awareness and help other veterans. recovered. what he and his wife are now doing to raise awareness and help other veterans. >>> $39 million, that's how much the sexual harassment scandal in hollywood is costing netflix. a new earning report from the streaming company revealed netflix spent $39 million on content it never released. netflix didn't name kevin spacey or lewis c. kaye but did confirm that the right down was due to harassment allegations. both men were in major productions for netflix that were canceled when the men were both accused of sexual misconduct. >>> no sour grapes in new jersey, at least not when it comes to the wine industry. a new study finds the wine industry has had a $323 million impact on the state's economy. wine production increased by 73% from 2011 to 2016. jobs are growing along with the grapes also. almost 2,000 people are now employed by wineries and vineyards. >>> tough times for toy giant toys are rustus. ahead which local

senate ju didiciary committee e told me he is open to moving legislation that would protect the special counsel from interference from the white house. he says that chuck grassley told me earlier today, that he would be open to moving it if two separate competing bills can be reck fionciled to get rid of th slight differences and how each of these measures could deal with firing and possibly firing of a special counsel. now one of the members who's pushing this legislation is cory book booker, a new jersey democrat. he's been trying, he said in the wake of these reports of the athe tempted firing of robert mueller, he's been on the phone, trying to get new momentum behind this push and he believes perhaps some minds can be change in the light of these new reports. now when i spoke to him today, he raised serious concerns of what he sees as quote authoritarian tactics and raised a specter of impeachment. >> i think there was a very pragmatic reason to put forward legislation to try to check the president's power and authoritarian tendencies to order the removal of the special counsel. but what went from a pragmatic idea now i believe is a moral imperati

>> hope springs e eternal, but we're in a different place than we were friday night when the government shutdown in the first place. yesterday majority leader mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer didn't speak during the course of the day. d neither did they talk to the president. the big players here who will have to strike this deal never came to an agreement on their own. beneath them, there was a separate to manage up by a bipartisan group of senators. >> garrett, i'm so sorry. >> to pass a bill that would have kept the federal government own provided six years of certainty for the state children's health insurance program, which at least seven governors have written they are in dire straits. allowed ongoing talks to continue on a variety of other important issues that we have been discussing here for a couple months. together democrats and republicans had enough votes to pass it. five democrats crossed over and voted against shutting down the government. to keep the government open. while we do our work. the house had already passed it. the president was ready to sign it. we were poised to send him this compromised solution and erase the threat of a shutdown. but u

e have reached that threshold having a vote in the senate. some democratic senators are criticizing at least subtly what they feel is not a strong negotiation on behalf of chuck schumer. harris, a 2020 presidential candidate out telling reporters, i don't believe he made any commitment whatsoever, regarding mitch mcconnell. and i think it would be full hearty to believe that he made a commitment. the skepticism amongst democrats to leader mcconnell starting to boil over and that will be a key issue for democrats as they start to make comments about this. this will have implications for some time. a swim we look at the trump administration and the evolution when it comes to the administration, it is not only about funding the border wall but about ending chain migration and visa lottery's. is this a pathway toward reducing legal immigration in the united states? >> i think the administration has pretty much said so. there is a mindset that immigration is not as the way it has been implemented, been beneficial to the u.s. say thats and others immigration has been actually beneficial to the united states in creating jobs, entrepreneurial entities that hire peopl

chuck, let me ask you to speak to whether or not from a prosecutor standpoint, if you have a witness like jeff sessions who's been engage e eda pretty hostile public feud with the president, the president taking to twitter and taking to the rose garden. i think i have some of it. president in the rose garden talking about being disapointed in the attorney general. let's watch that. >> well, i don't think i am doing that, but i am disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recused himself almost immediately after he took office, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me prior to taking office and i would have quite simply picked somebody else. i'm very disappointed with the attorney general, but we will see what happens. time will tell. time will tell. >> chuck, is it even legal to say "if he was going to recuse hil himself, he should have told me prior to taking office and i would have picked somebody else." did the president admit to obstructing justice unwittingly? >> i'm not sure the one statement gets you there, nicolle, but it's interesting because when mr. sessions recused himself,

chuck todd this morning on "meet the press." >> yeah, but he believes that collusion is a hoax. all i can say is it is not a hoax. the russians stole the els. they did interfere in our elections. we now know that trump junior met with the russians in trump tower and that bob mueller is doing a great job. he's the right guy at the right time. he needs to be allowed to do his job. and whether or not there is collusion, bob mueller will tell us. i've seen no evidence of collusion. mr. mueller had to be appointed as special counsel, but we need a second special counsel to look at the way the department of justice conducted themselves. >> so, this is interesting, hoffman, and i'm going to start with you first. graham simultaneously saying that the president is wrong on russian interference while also calling for a second special counsel to investigate the doj/fbi over accusations of partisan intent. what do you think about that? >> well, first thing i think about, just the view from the kremlin. i mean, it's as if vladimir putin injected a virus into our political system and he's just reaping the rewards every day. it's causing, you know, som

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e*trade. the original place to invest online. >>> we're standing by. there is an urgent meeting under way right now. we're following the breaking news of the meeting of the president and chuck schumer. will they be able to come up with some sort of deal to avert a government shutdown at midnight tonight? as soon as that meeting breaks up, we expect to get reaction, get to some sort of readout from senator schumer and the president. this is an urgent meeting. and interestingly, the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was not invited to this meeting between the president and the democratic leader in the senate. we're staying on top of this. so much is at stake. millions of americans will be impacted if there is a government shutdown tonight. so stand by for that. >>> there is other news we're following. we're learning more right now about the lengths that president trump's longtime private, personal attorney went to in order to keep a porn star silent in the weeks leading up to last year's presidential election back in 2016. i should say according to the "wall street journal," the president's lawyer used a private company in pseudonyms to pay hush money to the porn star st

chuck schumer. they say it has now hit rock-bottom. the senate leaders started out with high hopes for improving how the chamber operates, and settin and instead it has been eear of slights and one-upsmanship. the two were off to a rocky start when schumer voted against mcconnell's wife for a cabinet post, a move that stunned senators in both parties. mcconnell blocked a supreme court nominee, part of an effort to control the makeup of high court. schumer has slowed many of the nominations the president has sent to the senate and blocked the spending priority. usingell countered by every parliamentary rule he can pushing through a tax cut. but it is schumer's vote against elaine chao that is seen as a pivotal moment by some senators. "you do not have any transportation projects up in new york?" mcconnell told schumer moments after he cast his vote. "that was totally uncalled for," he said about schumer's vote. "i still don't understand that one. i mean, i have heard him explain it to me, but i still do not ."derstand your cod john? host: the house is coming in at 9:00. the senate is in at noon. craig caplan with a quick factoid on the saturday senate sessio

e this morning you hear from them about their priorities amid this spending debate, also showed you senate majority leader mitch mcconnell with his thoughts yesterday. his senate minority leader chuckloor of the senate yesterday talking about negotiations.udget guest: mr. president, we have two weeks until funding for the government runs out. alongside talks about extending government funding, also been bipartisan erious negotiations on a number of issues that should coincide with deadline. e have to lift spending caps, pass disaster aid, healthcare package. reach agreement for daca alongside border security and of course there is as well. of 702, those negotiations, though proceeding ave been quite well, four congressional leaders met with representatives from the white house last inside and had encouraging meeting. following that meeting, the white house issued a series of unreasonable demands entirely oubdz the scope of ongoing negotiations about daca border security. it is part of pattern of of this on the part white house during sensitive bipartisan negotiations. year, the white house has much more frequently rather isruptive force than unifying force. to throw down a lift fro

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