daniel litman. we will talk to you in a bit. thank you. former city michael plume berg attacks elizabeth warren's plan on attacking wealth instead of the income, comparing the plan to socialism. >> we need a healthy commitment we shouldn't be embarrassed about our system. if you want to look at a system that's no non-examistic. just make the a look at what was perhaps the wealthiest country in the world and today the people are starving to death. it's called venezuela. >> former starbucks ceo howard schultz weighed in on warren's wealth tax, calling it unrealistic. >> when i see elizabeth warren come out with you know a ridiculous plan of taxing wealthy people, a surtax of 2% because it makes a good headline or sends out a tweet when she knows that, for, in a fact, that is not something that's ever going to be passed. this is what's wrong. you can't attack these things in a punitive way by punishing people. >> of course, warren responded to these criticisms, tweeting this. what is ridiculous is bill

democrats get set to take control of the house later on thursday >>> let's discuss all of this with daniel litmannk you for joining us let's talk about this particular move here. how much of this at least meeting or possible negotiation this afternoon can lead into some kind of meaningful development on ending the partial u.s. government shutdown >> it's a critical step for them to actually get back in the room remember, trump was criticizing nancy pelosi for being in hawaii during the government shutdown and the holiday. there's been no progress in the last 12 days that this shutdown has been happening there's real world consequences that americans are facing in terms of the epa, the faa, they are getting hit. the irs, they can't train their workers to be able to adapt to the new tax law. so trump is viewing this as an opportunity to end the shutdown which he himself in that last meeting with pelosi and schumer said he would be happy for them to call it the trump shutdown. he's been trying to shift the blame to the schumer shutdown, but most republicans have not been joining him in that effort.

. >> let's talk with harry litman, a former deputy assistant attorney general as well as daniel litman, a reporter for politico harry, starting with you here. it is important to point out the statement from the special counsel did not say there is nothing to this story but rather takes a very specific response in describing it. let's talk about the statement that we have from them that goes on the say buzzfeed's description of specific statements to the special counsel's office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohen's testimony are fought accurate so you see the way mueller responded here. do you get a sense that they're not entirely denying the greater story that's been alleged here? >> i think that's exactly right. i mean, it's cryptic. but it's much less than a full denial indeed. it seems the core of the story, not only are they denying, it holds up with the chronology and having cohen plead to this in the first place. you then ask, so why are they doing this cryptic and partial statement? it's so out of character for the mue

. >> daniel litman for us, thanks, good seeing you. >> thank you. >>> two and a half weeks ago presidentn syria has been quote defeated, a claim which isn't true and which he backtracked from in the following days while ordering the immediate withdrawal of all u.s. troops in the country which the administration also walked back soon afterwards. now it turns out it may not be happening in the foreseeable future at all. speaking from israel, national security adviser, john bolton told reporters that trump's pullout is conditional and u.s. troops will remain in syria until all of isis is defeated and until the u.s. gets a guarantee from turkey they will not attack the u.s. backed kurdish forces. turkey considers them as terrorists, in addition, bolton says that the u.s. isn't actually withdrawing all troops from syria, just from the northeastern part adding quote this is a cause and effect mission. timetables for the timing of the withdrawal won't actually be established until all the conditions are met. here's how the president described it on sunday compared to some of his other recent re

. >> let's talk more about this with harry litman, a district deputy. daniel, a reporter for politico. thank you for taking time to speak about this. it is important to point out the statement did not say there's nothing to the story, but rather takes a very specific response in describing it. let's talk about the statement. buzz feed's description of specific statements to the special counsel's office and characterization of testimony obtained are not accurate. so, when you see the way mueller responded here, do you get a sense they are not entirely denying the greater story that's being alleged here? >> that's exactly right. it's cryptic, but much less than a whole denial, indeed. it seems like the core of the story, not only not denying, but holds up with the chronology and having had cohen plead to this in the first place. you then ask, why are they doing this cryptic and partial statement? it's so out of character for the mueller gang and my best guess is there's some way which -- i don't think they are trying to show themselves, they follow the rules, ev