was right about is this benefits the gop. i'm not a fan of the gop. i don't think they have to be great, they just have to be better than the other side and i think they are better than the other side. they got the tax cut passed looks like they get infrastructure passed you have a lot of people in blue states a lot of democrats on the council for the infrastructure bill. looks like they will get that passed while people vote with their pocket book and that favor s the gop. dagen: hadley, you already have more than a hundred companies stepping up to give this money from this tax cut to the workers whether it's at&t, verizon, you name it we're talking about hundreds of thousands of people who will get bonuses or feel this in some other way. >> that's right. they're sharing the success and anybody who said during the month-long debate over tax reform that this bill was only going to help the 1% it was only going to help corporations they've been proven wrong and should lose a lot of credibility for that. i don't think that will happen because in politic

the gop holds a slight margin in the house after the random drawing named david winner of district 94. in maryland, lawmakers outlined a proposal to create an individual health care mandate at the state level since federal lawmakers got rid of it in the gop tax bill. also on the agenda, the democrats pushed to override larry hogan's veto of a bill on paid sick leave. and a vote on expanding the number of licenses to grow medical marijuana. news 4 is working for you with team coverage tomorrow. julie carey will be in richmond. chris gordon from annapolis. that's starting tomorrow on news 4 at 4:00. >>> she lost her son to an especially addictive and deadly form of heroin. >> what addiction of an entire generation. >> next at 11:00, the news 4 i-team talks to this mother about the opioid crisis.

the gop themselves. what is the vote count looking like for today? kevin: i was speaking with this aide who said this is on a member to member level. that all these conversations are being held as folks are walking to the floor of the senate. it's anybody's guess in terms of the handicapped to talk about the chances of this actually passing. the markets have not blinked on this. i made the point about talking to several sources about the political capital president trump is using to reopen the government. about a week away from his second state of the union address where he will lay out his vision for the new year. i would note that the president cost davos plans are in jeopardy. i can tell you anecdotally speaking that the federal government is a top employer in the dmc area. while people are not being paid and will not be paid until the government reopens as a problem, particularly in a swing state like virginia, northern virginia being where many of these people live. i asked to someone in the elevato

the gop announced they will release this memo to the house. members of the committee say don't worry, this isn't going tobecome public, we are not that reckless but they had suggested to the sean hannity's of the world that this is the mostincriminating things and watered it. by the time they put this outthere, they can no longer constrain the forces that havegrown as a result. so the same members said we don't think it would be to make this public suddenly change their position.now the chairman says we're going to make this public. the fbi director, the fbi and department of justice are not allowed to read this. the fbi director is finally allowed to comment on sunday, the day before they put this out. he raises concern about. on monday he and the deputy attorney general go to the white house and say don't do this. they've already said it would be reckless. the president says 100 percent, i'm doing it. we had even made it but i can tell you 100 percent i'm going to do it.this doesn't surprise anyone about this president. no one had any doubt

a gop aide just texted cnn jeremy diamond.n carrying members of congress to the gop to west virginia was in an accident. apparently the train hit the truck. small injuries reported. that's the text. small injuries reported. this train was en route to the greenbrier. fill us in. what do we know? >> reporter: brianna, that's essentially what we know right now is that this was a train carrying a group of republican congressmen to this retreat in west virginia. they left union station this morning. they were taking a train to greenbrier west virginia where this retreat is taking place. unclear exactly where the accident happened as of yet but what is clear is that according to this republican aide whose congressman is actually on this train and was speaking with him on the phone, the train reportedly hit a truck at some point on its journey between washington and greenbrier, west virginia. some injuries were reported. the aide told me some doctors were tending to some of the injured members on that train. it's unclear as of now ho

how concerned are you that this will impact the gop brand? what we campaigned on and what i know is good public policy -- let's past that. the senate can do what you are going to do. i hope they are not going to shut down the government will but he wants a government shutdown. the policies that election was about, we want those policies enacted. that is what i am focused on doing. i want to fund our troops. even democrats agree with that. a bunch of democrats voted for the national defense authorization act. everyone agreed with that. let's hold the line with everything else. i want to thank you for joining us. i see why you are a champion college wrestler, division i. i could see why you want so many matches. thanks so much for joining us. president's favorite punching bag on the campaign trail -- trade deals. how does the president agenda line with promises. we'll take a look at that next. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> i am going to renegotiate nafta, and if i can't make a great deal, we are going to terminate nafta, and we are going to make new

shery: you are headed to the gop retreat.re seeing a discrepancy between what the house seems to want and what the senate and the white house seems to want. appetite forat at the --l fare reform rep. mcmorris rodgers: i get to help organize this retreat. it has been a pleasure to work thune, bringing the house and senate republicans together. it's important that we do come together to talk about 2018 and our priorities. part of the success of the tax cut and jobs bill is that we agreed on an outline. the house and senate and white house agreed on an outline to address tax reform. that is the goal of the retreat, to get us on the same page. all of it is building upon the success of the tax bill. it's important that we get on the same page. david: talk about bringing people together, how difficult will it be to bring together enough people on capitol hill so we don't shut down the government come midnight tomorrow? we are not sure who is where, seems everyone is disagreeing with everyone. kevin: i'm confident we will have the v

for gop senators and congressmen. the questions are for those republican leaders about why they continue to stand by the president. have they seen any signs of the illness that wolff is describing? have they had any concerns, the way wolff has seen? or do they believe wolff is making it up? there's enough quotes in this book from on the record sources that we know some people like steve bannon are concerned about his health. >> figuring prominently behind the president, as well as kevin mccarthy. all right, thank you very much. good to see you all. happy new year, by the way. i don't think i said that earlier. all right, we'll be right back. you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brain-health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember. ♪ ♪ there are two types of people in the world. those who fear the future... and those who embrace it. the future is fo

we haven't heard much from the gop tonight. we've seen a little bit of mia love's comments you read on the air earlier. we haven't from mcconnell, we haven't heard from paul ryan. there is an appetite from gop leaders who were at camp david with the president this weekend to try to help him build the base a little bit more for 2018. they're facing a difficult year. you have a president whose approval numbers have hovered in the 30s. sometimes in the lower 40s, but often in 30s. it's kind of a drag on the party. and you have gop leaders who have a lot of battle ground competitive states that they really need to compete in. and the president is not helping that. i think they, you know, would love to see the president strike more of an inclusive tone. but i don't know, brian, that we're going to see the president do that. i mean, he's 71 years old. i don't think he's changed much since he came in the oval office. he sees this as the biggest validation of his life. and if you talk to his advisors privately, they say, you know, he w

we heard from adam schiff who spoke to reporters following the vote to release the gop memo. he was joined by other committee democrats at this 15 minute briefing. mr. schiff: good evening. i want to give a quick briefing on the events of the committee evening. i think we have crossed a deeply regrettable line in this committee where the first time in the 10 years i've been on the committee there was a vote to politicize the declassification and intentionally compromised sources and methods. i made a couple of motions this evening. first, we scheduled a hearing today, a business meeting so that the minority memoranda can be made available to the members of the house that had been misled by the majority's memoranda. we expected that vote to be noncontroversial and it was. the house members will now have access to the minority memoranda. i made a secondary motion that prior to the public release of either memoranda that the fbi and department of justice have the opportunity to come and brief the entire house in a classified session on both memoranda on the underlying facts and

the gop announced they will release this memo to the house.op members of the committee say don't worry, this isn't going to become public, we are not that reckless but they had suggested to the sean hannity's of the world that this is the most incriminating things and -- incriminating thing since watergate. by the time they put this out there, they can no longer constrain the forces that have grown as a result. so the same members said we don't think it would be to make this public suddenly change their position. so now the chairman says we're going to make this public. the fbi director, the fbi and department of justice are not allowed to read this. the fbi director is finally allowed to comment on sunday, -- come in on sunday, the day before they put this out. he raises concern about. on monday he and the deputy attorney general go to the white house and say don't do this. they've already said it would be reckless. the president says, 100% i am doing it. i have not even read it at 100% i am going to do it. this doesn't surprise anyone about

look at some of the other headlines, from today on the front page of the "new york times," it says gop senators are pursuing the author of a file on trump more than a year after republican leaders promised to investigate russian interference in the presidential election. two influential republicans on friday make the first known congressional criminal referral in connection with the meddling against one of the people who sought to expose it. senator charles e grassley of iowa, the chairman of the adiciary committee, and senator lindsey graham of south carolina, a senior committee member, told the justice department that they had the reason to believe that former british s[u. christopher steel -- spy, christopher steele, lied to federal authorities about his contacts with reporters regarding information in a dossier. democrats and raised stakes of the partisan battle over the investigation into mr. trump, his campaign, and russia. alan is calling in from eastlake, ohio on our independent line. good morning. what is on your mind today? tuned in, andjust the conversation was on north kore

gop chairwoman wanda mcdaniel street in this.ator flake, turn on the news, wall-to-wall of biased coverage against the president. he has every right to push back, comparing the leader of the free world to murderous dictators. you've gone too far. cracking down on videos that the tide pod challenge. interesting retains post videos of themselves eating laundry detergent pods, which are chemicals. youtube removing any videos that show the challenge because they do cause physical harm. the parent company a-alpha bed up 36%. taking a look at off of the shares over the past year. cheryl: good for youtube for doing now. good move. president trump breaking the internet with his fake news awards last night. lauren: carlie shimkus joins us from fox news headlines 24 simon. if you're winner here you're a loser they are. a lot of speculation, a lot of mr. was a fake news awards, would it be a traditional word show. after he treated at a link to the list of winners, the gop website crash likely because of the flood of people that wanted to se

.hery: thank you still ahead, cathy mcmorris rodgers will be here to discuss what is next for the gop in 2018. this is bloomberg. ♪

christopher wray said to oppose gop memo release.theopean markets close, three minutes away from the session. this is bloomberg. ♪ mark: live from london, this is the european close. stocks finishing lower, we were high earlier. since january 2. the best month since october for the stoxx 600. headlineinflation, 1.341, well below the ecb target of inflation, just below 2%. employment figures are strong and price pressures failing to pick up to a similar extent despite unprecedented efforts by the ecb. mario draghi did say last week developments were heavily reliant on stimulus, arguing it is too soon to discuss unwinding asset purchases this year. the strong euro weighing down on inflation. that is inflation data and let's get back to the earnings. the world's biggest steel maker with its highest profit since 2011 and plans to pay its first dividend since 2015, small but shows a significant change in the fortunes of the company that was forced to go to investors for emergency funds two years ago as the industry floundered. view on the

democrats say they could block the gop short-term spending fix.lution and even shorter spending deal. are talking about a handful of days. alex is with us from washington. what are we expecting them to vote on? >> looks like the house is going to vote on a temporary spending probably for a few weeks that would extend the children's health insurance program for six years. that is on their strictly to draw democratic votes. but i don't think they're going to get many. the macau to pots this -- -- are balking. it is looking dicey in the house and dicey in the senate. i remember a past shutdown. i remember drama and tension. i get this weird feeling that nobody cares this time. am i wrong? , i think you are a little bit wrong. we are certainly excited about it here. i think both sides here are dreading this. neither side wants to shut down. neither side sees any political benefited anyway, but they are stuck in this trap. democrats are facing pressure from their left flank to do something about the daca recipients. republicans are facing pressure from

gop lawmakers on their way to a retreat at a pause right now.g out to their constituents saying they are okay right now. i have seen some reports that the truck itself was stopped on the tracks. i know oftentimes we talk about vehicle oz are people trying to beat the train. that may not have been the case in this incident. >> stalled on the tracks. >> right. >> reports that paul ryan, speaker of the house was on board. he is said to be okay. members with medical training assisting those who are injured. the republicans were headed to the green briar resort in west africa windchill. we will continue to follow this and bring you the latest developments. >>> moving on to the bay area. we're learning about the first deadly train crash. a woman was hit on the tracks near downtown santa rose a a conductor went on the intercom and announced there was an incident at the railroad crossing and asked everyone to stay calm and in their seats. the train would be delayed by 40 minutes because of the accident. buses are now along the route being provided by sm

what does that do for the gop?do you have people like langford, grassley and core anyone wanting to see amnesty instead of sending them back to where they originated? >> i think there is a significant number of people who want amnesty. but that's not what we were elected to do. president trump and others of us ran on opposition to the extension of the daca program. but we are seeing a lot of confusion when we say daca. that's basically a deferred action program. when i talk to daca students, they don't want a daca extension, they want a clean dream act. it's the amnesty my colleagues want. that's not good for our country or for future immigration issues, nor is it good for keeping campaign promises. charles: i want to bring in our panel. capri, it feels like democrats have a lot of leverage. chuck schumer pushing this very hard. it feels like president trump has a sympathetic ear on this issue. >> i do think that president trump does have a sympathetic ear. but he sees this as an opportunity to get money for the wa

gop. keep in mind that members of congress in a particular way, they look at their congressional districts. donald trump is at 60 plus % in their districts. they are not quoted god gets that number. i don't want to be primary ina gets that number. i don't want to be primary in a primary election. they don't want to be in a situation where the president is using the hammer of his office, as we have seen hammer of his office, as we have seen him do... my seen him do... my mind is being bobbled, but you are saying that the top echelon of the republican party is happy to yoke itself to a racist as long as they believe that that is in their political self—interest. why are you sitting here, shocked by it? didn't she watched the 2016 election? you watched party leaders admit, yes, what he said was racist, but we can still work with him. so what you have two get over your shock and step back and understand the politics that is beneath the surface. it is no stranger. we have seen surface. it is no

how does the gop sell that to voters this fall? that many voters are getting tax cuts and they're getting wages raised by different companies. i think at the same time, the president is banking on the economy being able to save us republicans in the mid terms. the economy is very strong. but how did that help us republicans in november 2017? do we have a senator roy moore, a governor elect ed gillespie, no. we have three democrats, who won big races and democrats sweeping across the country. as a republican, i'm concerned. we'd already lost the messaging war on the tax reform package, because we were saying it's really going to help the middle class, but more and more americans believe it helps the uber wealthy than them. >> adrian, how much focus do democrats put on economic issues in 2018? can the democrats win without the white working class voters? >> well, first of all, we are winning with white working class voters. we've already seen a major rise in some of the districts in particular that hillary clinton did lose to donald

what's it mean for the gop and how does a deal get done on immigration? mark mackinnon, adviser to so many, including george w. bush and john mccain. his showtime show, which is terrific about politics, "the circus," returns for its third season in april. hey, mark, we are a far cry from compassionate conservatism. what the heck just went on here? >> we are, michael. good to see you. so, i was thinking this morning where we started and where we are now, at least where we started with george w. bush, he had a message of compassionate conservatism that drew millions of supporters, including democrats and independents like me to become republicans. and a lot of that message was an immigrant-friendly language, an immigrant-friendly policies, that attracted us to the policy. i think about that now, and george w. bush campaigned in 1999 on immigration reform. that was one of the big issues. some people said he shouldn't talk about it. he said i'm committed to it, i want to do this. and i think about that now. that was almost 20 years ago, so for a third of my l

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senator bob casey called on gop leaders to make children and families a top priority in 2018. the pennsylvania democrat joined two moms at 30th street station urging lawmakers to preserve funding for programs that provide health care to children and families. they include the children's health insurance program known as c.h.i.p. and medicaid. one mom said her family struggled before medicaid became available for her two sons. >> i know what it's like to go to bed hungry. i know what it's like to tell my son that he can't go to his best friend's birthday party because we can't afford a gift for the child. >> by the way, programs that we should be damn proud of, you know, that's america, taking care of people, helping families. >> senator casey went on to call out republicans for recent threats to social security, medicare and medicaid.

and the irs will feel the pain, too, as they scramble under a new gop tax law. >> if the irs stops working, how do you actually implement your policy? >> hallie, it's why we don't want the government to shut down. it's why we don't want the irs not to have workers here. >> reporter: mike works for the epa where it's business as usual next week. but week after that, who knows? >> i feel badly for the employees at our office, some of which live paycheck to paycheck that are worried about where is my next paycheck coming from? >> reporter: president trump had been planning to spend the anniversary of his inauguration tomorrow at his mar-a-lago resort. but tonight we're told he will stay in washington until this shutdown drama gets resolved. savannah? >> hallie jackson at the white house, thank you. >>> while most of the oxygen in washington is consumed by shutdown talk, the president did

roger marshall saying we're on our way to our annual gop retreat.he train carrying members and spouses hit something. we're okay, i'm helping those that are injured. i will keep you updated as we know more. so we're seeing some things come out on twitter right now from those who are involved. this is one of the first pictures that is coming in. there is actually a train stop at the resort so this is something that had been in the works for a while and it's hard to make out that picture. >> jon: it looks like a train car. if so it is we're told there are injuries but don't know the extent. chad perg rum is joining us by phone. >> i'm hear the train accident happened near krozette, virginia west of charlottesville. they left early this morning bound for the greenbriar and white sulfur springs, west virginia, the annual retreat. the president was supposed to speak to the group tomorrow and vice president tomorrow. i'm told that the locomotive hit what appeared to be a trash truck and the locomotive has derailed. in indication that any of the other cars

to make a gop memo on the russia investigation public. the memo was drafted on the staff of committee chair, devin nunes and alleges surveillance abuses at the justice department. the hill reports that the committee voted against making public encounter memo but did vote to release it to the entire house. republican members expressed concern that the minority memo would damage sources and intelligence methods. the president has five days to review and reject or prove the -- approve the publication. we heard from adam schiff who spoke to reporters following the report. he was joined by other committee democrats at this 15 minute briefing. rep. schiff: good evening, i want to give a quick briefing on the events in the committee. i think we have crossed a deeply regrettable line in this committee where for the first time in the 10 years i've been on the committee there was a vote to politicize the declassification of intelligence and compromise sources and methods. i made a couple of motions this afternoon, or this evening, first we schedule

the gop announced they will release this memo to the house. gop members of the committee say don't worry, this isn't going to become public, we are not that reckless but they had suggested to the sean hannity's of the world that this is the most incriminating things and watered it. by the time they put this out there , they can no longer constrain the forces that have grown as a result. so the same members said we don't think it would be to make this public suddenly change their position. now the chairman says we're going to make thispublic . the fbi director, the fbi and department of justice are not allowed to read this. the fbi directoris finally allowed to comment on sunday, the day before they put this out . he raises concern about. on monday he and the deputy attorney general go to the white house and say don't do this. they've already said it would be reckless. the president says 100 percent, i'm doing it. we had even made it but i can tell you 100 percent i'm going to do it. this doesn't surprise anyone about this president. no one had

it describes the gop's report as an attack on the mueller investigation risking national security to protect the president. >> chairman nunes has acted like a state of the union address -- >> a stooge? >> a stooge of the white house at the acwhich sesence or maybe the guidance of the speaker of the house. they have crossed from dangerously and recklessly dealing with intelligence to a cover up of an investigation that they don't want the american people to cecum to fruition. >> this morning the white house says it is reviewing the gop memo and will decide whether to release it in the coming days. we get more from nbc's peter alexander. >> reporter: the mystery over a secret republican memo, the latest partisan flash point. so, what's in the memo? only a few lawmakers know for sure. >> transparency is a good thing. sunlight is a good thing. let's let the american people see. >> reporter: republicans say the memo compiled by house intelligence committee head devin nunes and his staff details alleged abuses by the fbi and justice department. that the agencies acted inappropriately when

now, we know he endorsed gop candidate ed gillespie but didn't go out on the campaign trail with him.ike gillespie wanted to keep the president at arm's length, he didn't want to be tied too closely to him, and, really, this was a contentious race down the stretch. you might still be having flashbacks to some of those negative ads that were constantly running up to election day. it ended up being ralph northam, the democrat, who came out on top, and he seed the negativity of the campaign behind him. >> the divisiveness, the hatred, the bigotry, the politics that is tearing this country apart, that's not the united states of america that people love. it's certainly not the commonwealth of virginia. >> now, northam's victory wasn't the only victory for democrats on election night. they also won the governor's race in new jersey, as well as a number of state-legislative and mayoral races. some analysts thought that the races were a sign of what's to come in the midterms, but you know what we're gonna have to do? wait and see. which is what keeps us on the air. up next on "the final 5," w

he helped the gop rake in $13 million in 2017.praise from president trump. >> the federal election committee says wynne contributed $600,000 of his own money to republic causes in 2017. >> there are increasing causes for the gop to return wynne's donations, especially since democrats returned money to them from harvey winestein. so far republics have remained silent. >> investigators of north carolina believe they have found the body of a missing four-year-old in a pond. raoul gonzales was last seen walking down the street in his pajamas. no word tonight on a possible cause of death. >> the death of one of the richest couples is being investigated as a homicide. honey and barry sherman were found dead in their $7 million toronto mansion back in december. six weeks of investigation led them to the murder cop conclusion. >> they had ligature marks on their wrists suggesting they were tied up before they were killed. a 17-year-old has been charged with the fatal killing of a 16-year-old last night on the unit block of woodrow avenue.

it also threatens to widen the risk in the gop -- rift in the gop.sight as to why can beident's war on pot a sticking point in the 2018 return, sahill. before we get to that, headlines crossing the terminal now that senator jeff flake says the bipartisan group on immigration has reached an agreement. the next step is seeking white house approval. what do you make of this? >> it is important to remember this is a tentative thing. they have been working on immigration deal that they believe could be agreeable to the white house. they have not gotten president trump where the white house to sign off yet so there is a lot to be done before this can start moving through congress. i can tell you the four contours they have been negotiating around is a daca codification bill, which protects the status of the 800,000 people who are at risk if daca his wound down, some border security measures. they want to deal with family-based immigration categories, which the president migration, and they want to deal with the diversity visa lottery, which brings in peopl

is the gop congressional control in jeopardy?illian, we know mid-terms are typically tough for the incumbent party. but it seems like there is a red flag with the quality of names. the people actually quitting, specifically some of these folks who are committee chairs. >> one of the interesting dynamics politically is before you knew he would catch a ton of heat from the opposing party, now, you don't know that you won't catch it from your own party. but what i think this does for the republican party is removes the incumbent advantage. it's not gowdy's seat in particular. but it will make it harder for republicans to hold on to the seat. charles: i'm an advocate of term limits. the rules gingrich put in for how long you can be a committee chair is acting like a deterrent. tammy: i think this is a good chance. i like to see a turnover as well. we see people staying there for decades and we end up having problems and a disconnect with the people. these kinds of races are local races. i think it's not a guarantee because of some na

i have not heard that word come out of a gop mouth, certainly not from the president, chris. he ended this. he created a date certain. he said he wanted to help them. he said bill of love and then turned around and put out an ad and say they're altherr rifts. >> sarah huckabee sanders refused to say when asked repeatedly. >> there you go. >> there's a commitment? not the case. the other part of this is donald trump's unpredictability. >> exactly. >> he's saying let's do comprehensive. we'll get daca done easily. then we have the thursday meeting, the tweets, tweets this morning where he says let's get to the negotiating. >> they can't say because they don't know. >> it's all over the place. you need a president to if not engage in the nitty-gritty, you need a president to say we're pushing in this broad direction and not change that direction 180 degrees two days later. >> do you? we'll talk about that in a moment. john, chris, stick around. please stay with us. we'll look at the winners and losers of the government shutdown next. >>> plus the bombshell report on christopher

cheryl: gop could propose maybe a five or six-day continuing resolution.re not meeting until 11:00 a.m. today and that's just a procedural vote so the clock is almost running out. lauren: they have until march to deal with what to do with daca. you don't necessarily have to do it now. meanwhile you have president trump slamming democrats over potential government shutdown. >> i really believe the democrats want to shut down to get off the subject of the tax cues because they worked so well. nobody thought including the democrats it could work this well. they've been so good that i think democrats would like to see a shutdown in order to get off the subject. lauren: the president was speaking at pennsylvania factory yesterday and talked about accomplishments including the tax cuts, record high stock market and a very low unemployment rate. cheryl: all good things for the markets, obviously, well, president trump is praising white house chief of staff john kelly one day after kelly angered him when he told fox news that trump's policemen was not fully inform

president trump and the gop. here is what happened today. senate majority mitch mcconnell struck a deal. mainly a battle over immigration reform. deciding the fate of daca. democrats want to stop any deportation efforts of the so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers. mcconnell said he would be open on a later date. they agreed to re-open the gr t government based on the promise. as for democrats, senator schumer is facing criticism. he went as far as calling today's deal a good solution. >> now, there is a real pathway to get a bill on the floor and through the senate. it is a good solution. and i will vote for it. president trump's unwillingness to compromise caused trump shutdown and brought us to this moment. the facts are well-known. >> meanwhile, plenty of questions around the extent of the president's participation in the negotiations. the white house is taking a victory lap. >> what the president did clearly worked. 81-18. those numbers are much more in the president's favor. >> politics as usual. all sides blaming the other a claiming victory. lates

no word on the other gop lawmakers who have received donations from wynn. >>> president trump is takingt for a decline in the african-american unemployment rate again. this time by taking aim at rapper and music mogul jay-z. in an interview with cnn, jay-z was asked how he feels about president trump's alleged vulgar comments about african countries. jay-z responded by saying trump's words were disappointing and hurtful. >> it really is hurtful, more so, like everyone feels anger, but after the anger is really hurtful because like you are looking down at a whole population of people and you're so misinformed because these places have beautiful people and have beautiful everything. and it's just -- like this is the leader of the free world speaking like this. >> president trump fired back on twitter crediting his policies for helping to lower black unemployment rates and seeming to anticipate this response, van jones tweeted another portion of his interview where they discussed if trump lowering unemployment excuses his comments. >> that's not missing the whole point. you treat people li

pressure is already building on gop. cotton and other s that are sort of build a wall at any cost a and. >> representative adam schiff it's a busy day for you. thanks for carving out time for us here on msnbc. thank you, sir. >> you bet, alex. >>> a bit earlier i spoke with reverend franklin graham, one of the president's staunchest evangelical supporters. when i asked about the report of trump's attorney paying a porn star to keep quiet about an alleged affair. here is what the reverend said. >> i can promise you, he is not president perfect. we certainly don't hold him up as the pastor of this country and he's not. president trump, i don't think, has admitted to having an affair with this person. so this is just a news story and i don't know if it's accurate. i don't think it's hip critical because he's a flawed man for me to support him and help him and pray for him. >> morris reed, democratic strategist. evan, to you first, here. your reaction to the reverend graham there. are you aware of any previous occurrence of

you said, hey, gop and democrats, instead of pointing fingers every time one of your donors turn out to be a filth bag, how about passing some meaningful bipartisan campaign finance reform. get the corrupting influence of money out of politics now. when there are stories like this coming out about people, weinstein, wynn, who have had up to this point so many influence in both parties. >> well, i think unfortunately this is a distracting race to the bottom when people start hypocritically demanding that the other side give back money from a bad donor. the reality is that we have a campaign finance system that allows incredibly huge infusions of dark money into the process. neither side really knows who is making any donations to them or at least they're not talking. and so we can't analyze whether there are other filth bags making donations. the republicans put the themselves in a tough spot by telling the democrats to give back money from harvey weinstein and that's never a smart thing to do. because you might have your own skeletons in the chosette. but it doesn't help things for d

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but it's the gop war on justice that's generating the most upheaval and drama this hour. speaker paul ryan in remarks today about last night's party-line vote to release a memo crafted by house intel committee chairman devin nunes and his staff, a move that the trump-run justice department deemed, quote, extraordinarily reckless, said this. >> there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individuals. so it is our job in conducting transparent oversight of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. sunshine is the best disinfectant. what we want is all of this information to come out so that transparency can reign supreme and accountability can occur. >> paul ryan's platitudes about disclosing the republican memo written by nunes who according to democrats on the committee has not even read the underlying intel, comes on the heels of paul ryan rebuffing fbi director chris wray and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who fought to protect the country's most sensitive secrets. the "washington post" reporting that earlier this month, fbi director chris wra

one of those gop senators floated the idea of a three-week funding alternative to provide more time for negotiations. >> i'm a definite no for 30 days. i think that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard to keep this madness going for 30 days to go home and everybody in the country start getting beat up for trying to solve a problem. 30 more days is killing the military, if you believe general mattis, this is the biggest thing we want to impose. this's no reason to wait 30 days. >> a number of senators seemed puzzled how we got to the point of nearly a government shutdown. the democrat blame game is the gop is in charge. >> you know, americans can count at least up to three. if you take the senate, and the house independent republican control and the white house, there has never been a shutdown with the republicans in charge of all of those bodies. >> there was hope the afternoon when senate democratic leader chuck schumer was invited to the white house to meet with president trump. the senate majority leader's argument, there's nothing in the funding bill for democrats to oppose. >> this

. ♪ scarlet: the passage of the gop tax bill had markets rally last year.zynga first actively managed policy exchange funds. companies benefiting from tax reform as well as gop, which focuses on companies that benefit from republican policies. thatfocus on companies benefit from democratic policies. -- phillips, we should start companies that benefit from tax reform. of the form, not that it is over, how do you move forward and push this etf ahead? >> i think that is what people are investing in. you saw a rally with trump investing in -- and i think when it went through, we saw more of a rally, so we have seen that fun performing very well. is whenrtant thing earnings rolled through and wall street starts embracing these companies that had one time step up. ,hat is going to roll through and you can put a multiple on that and see vstoxx get another leg up. c stocks get another leg up. are goingink people to stop talking about tax reform. it is going to be a renewed focus and people will talk about the corporate tax site as well. i think it is going to play

adding that schumer sought to push back the vote to give his caucus a chance to chew on the gop proposal. but a top democratic leadership aide disputes this claim, telling cnn they expect monday's vote will fall short of the 60 votes needed to reopen the government. >> there's enough blame to be around. i hope we can move from that and find a way to open the government up. >> reporter: both flake and graham announced they wll now vote in favor of the three-week proposal, meaning seven more senators are needed to get on board. one gop aide said republican leaders think they have a shot of pigging off enough democrats to move forward. five red state democrats voted against shutting down the government friday joined with a bipartisan group of moderate lawmakers who worked furiously over the weekend negotiating the compromised deal. >> we recognize that ultimately it is the decision of mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer as to how to proceed. and we're not trying to preempt that but we are trying to be helpful in showing them that there is a path forward >> reporter: senator graham pointing fi

could you add any other critiques of the gop plan, and additionally kind of also how the gop leaders handled this situation in terms of listening to their constituents, but then also kind of putting party over common good? mr. steele: sure, let's start with that. that is the first fundamental law -- flaw in the process. it was not public, it is not something that engaged the american people, as we saw eight years ago with obamacare, same thing. whenngton does not work the republican tribe and the democratic tribe decide to play in their own camps. we have too many examples of that. and we also have examples of the opposite, when you stop and look at the 1986 tax bill with ronald reagan and tip o'neill at the respective helms. that was an 18 month process that ended with a bipartisan support and votes. and everybody, everybody got a little wind, everybody got a little pain. -- win, everybody got a little pain. i was doing some work in finance area, and they wiped out, completely wiped out what i did. ok, fine, something else to do. everybody had a little pain, everybody had a little g

you won't see any real movement against donald trump inside the gop until his numbers change inside theers of congress, in a particular way, they look at their congressional districts. donald trump is at 60—plus per cent in their congressional districts. they're not going to go against that number, alright. they don't want to be primaried in a primary election. they don't want to be in a situation where the president is using the hammer of his office, as we've seen him do... forgive me if i sound as though as though my mind is being boggled here, but you're saying that top echelon of the republican party is happy to yoke itself to a racist as long as they believe that that is in their political self—interest. why are you sitting here, shocked by this? didn't you watch the 2016 election? you saw 15 other people stand on the stage and couldn't put a glove on the man. you watched party leaders admit, "yes, what he just said was racist, but we can still work with him." so you have to get over your shock and step back and understand the politics that's beneath the surface. it's no stranger h