yeah, there's an edge, but i think the focus will be between the lines tonight. >> you can hear dave johnson500 a.m. at 8:00 p.m. they call it the radio party. you can catch dave also mornings on wtop. thanks so much. >>> if you thought the caps match against toronto, prepare yourself. their rival, the pittsburgh penguins on thursday. this is marcus johansson getting that game-winning overtime goal, and game one against pittsburgh thursday at the verizon center, 7:30. game two right here on nbc4 on >> it was. that was stressful. >> an exciting finish. it happened so fast in hockey. thank you, sherree. >> "nightly news" is coming up next. we hope to see you for news4 at 11:00. have a good evening. >>> tonight, showdown over the wall. president trump demands money to pay for it and not from mexico. democrats say no chance. an escalating fight days to avert a government shut down. >>> breaking his silence, former president obama, what he signalled today about leading the charge against trump. >>> new uproar on a plane, an american airlines flight attendant allegedly grabbed a stroller from a mo

johnson from vietnam? i can't remember paul, do was at dave broder who made the description of lyndon johnson as president -- as the salami slicer? i think it was. this is a powerful insight. johnson's skill was in the senate of the united states, slicing salami. we have just seen last week president trump, paul ryan and others, fail at the process of slicing salami. what is is referring to? it's the deal making, how you get things done in a pluralistic democracy in congress. chuck, you have a slice of salami. you get a thicker slice. he did and, i slice it, everybody gets everything but you have to vote with me. as you see, johnson, dealing with this problem of vietnam, which it is clear and key inherited -- this is not something he started. he was a believer in the fianna maze and nationalism and freedom. he was, that's why he stayed at it. he inherited it. two basicht between vectors. he has a vector of the military, his secretary of defense who is close to bobby kennedy, a potential threats, and the joint chiefs. a lot of americans who believe that military power will solve our problems. go out and ki

dave: i mean, yeah. first it's an understanding that unions i would argue , are part of the labor movement. which is kind of a difficult argument sometimes, because you have some athletes like michael jordan, magic johnson, who are part owners of teams. and i don't care how good your union is if you're a steel worker, you're not going to own a string of steel mills at the end of the day. so it's distorted. but the whole reason that the players make their supersalaries is because of the fact that there was a union movement in sports, particularly in the 1960's. and the pivot for that was really two events. and i talk about it extensively in the book, a whole chapter on it. one was the hiring of marvin miller, a steel worker's union organizer. and i got to interview him for the book. and he brought a different kind of approach to organizing baseball players. who at the time baseball players, what they made in a year average salary in the mid 1960's for a baseball player was like low $20,000 at that point. every player, unless you were like mickey mantle basically, you worked in the off-season. i interviewed older players, they worked in quarries in the off-season. crushing rocks. it's hard to imagine alex

johnson is following counter—productive. it seems to me that borisjohnson is following tony blair in that respect. i enjoyed by the snp‘s foreign affairs presenter daveh in syria and iraq, not for any other military and action. the course is clear, they should lay a motion before the house and get that military action. if they are not prepared to do so, they have no entitlement whatsoever to ta ke have no entitlement whatsoever to take military action without the consent of parliament, and certainly no right or entitlement or even sense to speculate on it, as the foreign secretary was doing this morning. if president assad launched another chemical attack and president trump felt there had to be a swift response, they would not be the time to consult parliament. but then what they need to do if that is what they are going to do, if they are going to play mini me for trump, then what you do is you get the authority from parliament to say, thatis authority from parliament to say, that is what we would do under these circumstances, not just we will do it anyway. there has to be a debate... the debate is now where there is any independent foreign policy.