ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to mr. mick mulvaney. [applause] >> thank you very much. people always ask me about the dogs named guinness and harper and ask me what i do for fun. i want to thank mr. hage for the introduction. i want to thank you for inviting me. thank you to all the religious leaders and excellence that are here. thank you for inviting me and giving me this opportunity to speak this evening. i will begin by saying this. i really wasn't supposed to be here today. we had been asked by the heads of protocol at the white house not to do any official events today given the solemnity having to do with the funeral. we were supposed to cancel all our official events. i talked to the white house and i said, look, i'm speaking to this group on wednesday evening. they said, please cancel. i said, well, it's in defense of christians and i think it would be something that george bush would probably want me to do. [applause] >> and the white house absolutely agreed and insisted that i come. so i want to thank the folks who make thos

the new chair woman of the house financial services committee has a warning for mick mulvaney. >> i've written to mr. mulvaney to inform him that while his time running the consumer bureau may be over, the time for accountability for his actions is about to begin. i'm going to be working diligently to undo the damage that mulvaney has done. lauren: she outlined her agenda during a speech in washington. she said mulvaney sought to dismantle the consumer protection bureau while serving at the interim head. she said they will look at his firing of outside experts, stripping the office of fair lending of enforcement. mulvaney always tried to justify the cost of all that oversight. cheryl: theresa may looking for a compromise on a brexit deal after riding out and surviving a no confidence vote in parliament. lauren: now what. we get the answers from ashley webster in london. >> reporter: good morning to you. theresa may vowing to push ahead with brexit after surviving a vote of no confidence in parliament. she won by a margin of 19 votes, 325-306. in a statement following that vote, the pri

we're getting trushd mr. trump told his chief of staff mick mulvaney according to this shutdown. why can't we get a deal? well, because you've got to opt government. >> look in the mir juror. >> mirror. >> i can get my lighter to light my hair on fire? >> if there was not enough wow, this is a story from the "wall street journal" that posted about 15 minutes ago from michael roth feld, rob berry and joe. let me just reeled the lead paragraph. in early 2015 a man who runs a small company showed up at trump tower to collect $50,000 for having helped michael cohen then donald trump's personal lawyer try to rig online polls in his boss's favor before the presidential election. there's a lot more words that follow this, but let me summarize what we just heard there, a bag of cash, michael cohen. >> i can read a little bit more about the bag of cash. >> rigged online polls. >> had in his trump tower office he surprised the man by giving him a blue walmart bag containing between $12,013,000 in cash. >> yeah. >> and it gets worse. it is really extraordinary not only the best people detai

mick mulvaney saying he will shut it down again. anna: the president could shut down the government again by refusing to sign what the conference committee comes out with. the conference committee will meet for the first time on wednesday, it is a group of appropriators and those from both parties, it will be in charge of figuring out a policy for border security. it could include the wall, it could be as much as $5.7 billion for fodder elements of border scanners,such as drug more immigration judges, more technology that even the democrats say they support. while they come up with their compromised bill, there will be a parallel track where negotiations go on with the white house to see if the republicans can convince the president to come on board with whatever the congressional committee comes up with. david: i wonder if we should read anything into the composition of the committee. the republicans seem to be moderate centrist people, i do not see anybody i associate with the trump base. anna: no flamethrowers on this committee,

trump told his acting chief of staff mick mulvaney after watching some coverage of the shutdown according to one person familiar with the conversation. why can't we get a deal?" and the "washington post" is board about trump versus pelosi. privately one adviser has said trump has complained about the quotes he reads from pelosi about him in newspapers but has said he's impressed by her political savvy." are things getting a little ragged tonight? >> seems like it. the president is often deluded and sometimes confused and often not really a great judge of the dynamics of things. we are getting crushed is what they call a moment of clarity i believe in the language of recovery. maybe it will lead to something. maybe it was just a momentary outburst. but we are getting crushed is exactly what's happening. and the way that nancy pelosi right now is -- she's like torturing the president today. she is using her power. she is not just flexing muscles for the sake of it but -- i mean, this is a move of exceptional cleverness and sadism in a way. there's a little bit of playing peekaboo with a bab

trump told his acting chief of staff mick mulvaney after watching some recent coverage of the shutdown. according to one person familiar with the conversation, "why can't we get a deal?" you want to answer that for the president? >> well, it's pretty simple, you know, he should have takeny for an answer. his administration asked to 1.6 billion. we gave them 1.6 billion. that's all they asked for. >> when you say we, this was done before the shutdown, before christmas, way back when claire mccaskill was still a senator. >> still a senator, exactly. so, you know, this is what's nuts about this and, you know, good nancy pelosi, what a badass. i mean, her realizing that she could make -- remove the invitation for the state of the union, i think it was a brilliant political play. it made sense. it was reasonable. i think most people think it's reasonable. and it, once again, she has outmaneuvered him in terms of leveraging the situation. he is not going to get $5 billion for his sea to shining sea wall. and the sooner he realizes that and figures another way out of this, and mitch mcconnell

acting chief of staff and budget director mick mulvaney said the president's main goal is border security. aiming to change conditions along the mexican border, even if it means moving away from a wall. >> if he has to give up a concrete wall and replace it with a steel fence in order to do that, so that democrats can say, "see, he's not building a wall any more." that should help us. >> reporter: but the partial government shutdown moving into a third week, democratic senator dick durbin said, affected government employees, like t.s.a. agents, will feel the financial pinch soon. >> as of this friday, they will miss a payday. that may mean some problems for mortgage payments, problems of balancing the budget of their own families and households. this is totally unnecessary. >> reporter: now, house speaker nancy pelosi also says house democrats plan to introduce stand-alone bills this week, which would reopen agencies like the treasury, but it is unclear if senate republican would approve that legislation. elaine? >> quijano: and errol, the president also confirmed the death of a wanted te

trump tweeted that yesterday's meetings made little prog kbrress but mick mulvaney the president is willing to compromise. >> if you are asked to give up a concrete wall and replace it with a steel fence so that democrats can say, see, he's not building a wall anymore. >> you want the headline to be the president no longer wants a wall, he wants a fence. >> the president is going to secure the border with a barrier. >> last night the president tweeted, the wall is coming. borrowing from the imagery from "game of thrones." that series is a fantasy venture which is how nancy pelosi guards the democrpresident's demand. she said next week house democrats will begin passing individual appropriations bills to reopen all government agencies. the senseless uncertainty and chaos of the president must end now. are there any big goals from today's meetings? any deliverables we can look forward to? >> joshua, i still think we're in the talking point phase of this. the way this was orchestrated yesterday on the part of the white house, first of all, a very asymmetrical briefing. you had the vice preside

as of last week a person close to mr. mulvaney said he's still interested in the presidency of his home state university which will become open this summer. the white house is, of course, pushing back. mick mulvaney is faithfully executing the job the president asked him to do. as such he's not interested in any other positions. are you sure about that, hogan? >> i'm the acting chief of staff. i'm retaining my formal position of office of management and budget for now. 100% of my time -- >> what does for now mean? for now, there's a chance you do vacant the position? >> it's a good question. no one asked me about that before, how the president and i talked about doing this. we just decided to try it. i think the president had some ideas about how to run the position that was different than john kelly, a little different than reince priebus. he said let's try that, give it a shot for a while. i said, that's great. if you don't like it, you've always liked omb, i can always go back to that. >> 90 day trial, 180. >> we didn'

according to axios, president trump lashed out at his acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney during a bipartisan meeting with leaders earlier this month. mulvaney suggested a middle gro and reopen the government. mr. trump didn't take too kindly to the suggestion saying, quote, you just [ bleep ]ed it all up, nick. the white house official down played the exchange, calling it an exaggerated account of what happened. >> u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo is in riyadh putting pressure on saudi leaders to hold the killers of "washington post" killer jamal khashoggi accountable. his visit is part of the tour of the middle east. our chief affairs correspondent andrea mitchell is traveling with the secretary. >> reporter: good morning, frances and phillip. the secretary of state is here in saudi arabia meeting with the young crown prince. the young leader who is being blamed by many, including u.s. intelligence, for the killing of jamal khashoggi. secretary pompeo is in saudi arabia. his first trip here since the c.i.a. concluded that the country's powerful crown prince was responsible for the brutal

director mick mulvaney sent us a budget amendment requesting more funds to stand up in this offices a. that's not a question we often get from mr. mulvaney as a request to increase spending anywhere and he did that. you know the former director himself as he served here he doesn't like to spend a penny more than needed so this is certainly a very important priority. the treasury also made a strong case that to comply with the sanctions act the department needs these funds. as we debate about the importance of the moment and where we are in time, i can see nothing as more important for us to focus on than to put two additional million dollars into this program and offset it as it has been described in the letter from the g.s.a.'s payments. i hope every member can support this commonsense amendment, we're improving on the senate bill, mr. speaker and i yield back asking for a yes vote on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rides? mr. quigley: i yield myself such time as i may consume.

john roberts in for chris wallace, he will talk with mick mulvaney about what comes now that the government is back open. maybe mr. mulvaney will have some names of some democrats who will perhaps come over to fund the border wall. check your local listings for time and channel. howard kurtz and his guests talking about the media's reaction, 11 a.m. eastern on "media buzz." kristin: the president is continuing his push for border wall funding. will congress come up with a border secure deal in just three weeks? we'll take a closer look. the protein you need with less of the sugar you don't. (straining) i'll take that. (cheers) 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. ensure max protein. in two great flavors. if your moderate to severeor crohn's symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn't worked well enough it may be time for a change. ask your doctor about entyvio®, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn's. entyvio® works at the site of inflammation in the gi tract, and is clinically proven to help many patients achieve both symptom relief and

the acting chief of staff, which is what we're supposed to call him, mick mulvaney, told abc news, quote, zach's a good man. we'll find something for him to do productive. oh, good. our top concern was definitely that mr. fuentes might not be productive while he hides in the woodwork for six months. but the other thing that's happened now is of course, as of this week democrats are in charge of congress. so the committee that he tried to get to reinstate the early retirement program for himself, that committee is no longer run by republicans. it's now run, as of today, by oregon democratic congressman peter defazio. we contacted congressman defazio's office today if he expects to investigate the issue of the serving deputy white house chief of staff possibly using a federal agency to pressure his committee into getting himself an extra special good retirement deal. the congressman told us, quote, buzz of republican neglect, there is a backlog of deferred oversight under the jurisdiction of this committee. this most certainly is on that list. so this straight forward simple textbook gover

director mick mulvaney sent us a budget amendment requesting more funds to stand up in this offices a. that's not a question we often get from mr. mulvaney as a request to increase spending anywhere and he did that. you know the former director himself as he served here he doesn't like to spend a penny more than needed so this is certainly a very important priority. the treasury also made a strong case that to comply with the sanctions act the department needs these funds. as we debate about the importance of the moment and where we are in time, i can see nothing as more important for us to focus on than to put two additional million dollars into this program and offset it as it has been described in the letter from the g.s.a.'s payments. i hope every member can support this commonsense amendment, we're improving on the senate bill, mr. speaker and i yield back asking for a yes vote on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rides? mr. quigley: i yield myself such time as i may consume.

. >> so, you just heard me talk with acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, and one of the things that mulvaney and i were talking about was the deliberations about the president potentially fund the border wall. what do you make of that? what do you think? >> i make of that really threatening talk from the president that he doesn't have the power to execute. look, if harry truman couldn't nationalize the steel industry during wartime, this president doesn't have the power to declare an emergency and build a multibillion dollar wall on the border, so that's a nonstarter. and i think that what the president needs to do more than anything else, he's painted himself into a corner on this thing, is figure out how he unpaints himself from that corner. we need to reopen the government. we need to put people back to work. and i think senator jones was making a very important point, which is really something that i'm very focused on as well, and that is, we can't allow this continual process that was really modernized by the tea party, that if i don't get what i want, if i don't get what i don

. >> look, as of now the president's chief of staff -- acting chief of staff mick mulvaney is indicating that the president is willing to let the government shutdown again, a threat that's got to leave a lot of government workers incredibly uneasy given what they've already gone through, steven. but if this does happen again, is there any chance the president would get a different outcome? because as of right now the math is not there, the votes are not there. >> i think he knows that, too. someone who wants to find mental difficulty in doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. and so i think the white house knows this. my guess is rather than shut the government down, which turned out to be very, very unpopular, trump might go the national emergency route. and even if that's delayed in the courts, he can always argue to his base he did everything possible and it's all the fault of those democrats. >> mulvaney also indicating the president is prepared to declare a state of emergency to build this wall that he calls a crisis on the u.s. border with mexico

mick mulvaney and i traveled. we presented a good-faith offer to resolve this issue, to achieve a compromise, only to find out that days after christmas, the democrats had stopped negotiations altogether. they are coming here today at your invitation. our sincere hope is that, confronted with these facts, that democrats on capitol hill will join republicans in your call to achieve real border security. we are ready to deal. we have an offer on the table. it would reopen the government and achieve border security. i know other senators are talking about fresh ideas, some of which reflected on today. i know will get due consideration. we owe the american people nothing less than our best efforts. not just to reopen the government, but to reopen the government once we have the resources to build a wall and make measurable progress on achieving real border security. pres. trump: thank you very much. it's true. i want to thank mick mulvaney, he's been a real activist. he's got great energy. doing a great job. we apprec

we met several times before christmas and mick mulvaney and i traveled and we met with leadership. there we presented a good-faith offer to resolve the issue. to achieve a principled compromise. only to find out days after christmas that the democrats estopped negotiations altogether.they are coming here today your invitation. i sincerely hope that confronted with the facts and information that we will review again today, is that democrats on capitol hill will join republicans and will join in your call to achieve real border security. and as you said yesterday, we are ready to deal. we have an offer on the table. that would reopen the government and achieve border security. i know other senators are talking about fresh ideas. some of which you reflected on today. and i know we will get consideration to those issues but we owe the american people nothing less than our best efforts but not just to reopen the government but as you have made clear, reopen the government once we have the resources to build awall , a physical barrier and make measurable progress in achieving real border

. >> sir, mr. president, i will start by highlighting the fact that you stayed in washington, d.c. over the holidays giving up christmas with your family, new year's with your family, trying to bring an end to this shutdown and security to our southern border. you have demonstrated your dedication to delivering on this critical issue. for our country and for the american people. >> wow. >> it's unbelievable. i want to show a couple other clips from there and then get a response from our panel, especially david ignatius can on some of these foreign policy issues. during the cabinet meeting, donald trump seemed to become the first president of the united states to ever endorse the 1979 invasion of afghanistan. >> we are talking to the taliban. we are talking to a lot of different people. but here is the thing. you mentioned india. india is there. russia is there. russia used to be the soviet union. afghanistan made it russia. because it seems to me went bruptd fighting in russia. the reason russia wa