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TRUMP: "At the request of Democrats it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall."

What Democrat has requested a border wall made of steel?
TRUMP: "The border wall would very quickly pay for itself."

Absolutely no evidence of this. Trump cites the cost of illegal drugs, most of which come through official ports of entry.
TRUMP: "The wall will also be paid for indirectly by the great new trade deal we have made with Mexico."

This is not true. And the deal hasn't even been approved by Congress.
Networks turned over their airwaves for a stream of lies.
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Judd Legum
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1. Some perspective on the BuzzFeed controversy

The central claim in BuzzFeed's story that Mueller disputes is this: Cohen "told the special counsel that after the election, the president personally instructed him to lie"

Mueller says Buzzfeed's "description" is "not accurate"
2. We know Cohen talked to Mueller's office and we know they discussed Cohen's decision to lie to Congress about when the pursuit of Trump's Moscow ended.

But what did Cohen say?

This isn't a mystery. There is a transcript. Sometime soon, the transcript should be released.
3. There is clearly some ambiguity about what Cohen told Congress. His lawyer wrote at one point that Cohen lied about the Moscow project "in accordance with Client-1’s directives" (Client-1 is Trump)

But in his allocation to the court, Cohen did not say he was directed by Trump
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Judd Legum
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While 800,000 federal workers aren't getting paid, Mnuchin is jetting off to Davos
He's still got it.
UPDATE: They canceled the trip to Davos cnn.com/2019/01/17/pol…
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Judd Legum
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1. It's likely that the current shutdown is illegal.

There is a fundamental misunderstanding of the law in these situations.

Most of the reporting gets it wrong.

Let's review.

popular.info/p/is-the-shutd…
2. The standard line is that the Antideficiency Act (ADA) allows the government to force essential employees to work without pay.

THIS IS NOT TRUE.

In general the ADA prohibits the government from spending money not appropriated by Congress.

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3. The ADA also prohibits the government, in most cases, from accepting volunteer services from government workers.

The exception to this rule is "emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property."

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TRUMP: "Every day CBP agents encounter 1000s of illegal immigrants trying to enter our country. We are out of space to hold them... Among those hardest hit are African-Americans & Hispanic Americans... Over the years 1000s of Americans have been brutally killed by [immigrants]."
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TRUMP: "Law enforcement professionals have requested $5.7b for a physical barrier. At the request of Democrats, it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall... The federal government remains shut down [because] Democrats will not fund border security."
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We're out of space?
"crisis of the heart and crisis of the soul"
Democrats want a steel barrier instead of a concrete wall?
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So #Trump is holding a news conference in about five minutes. I’ll be watching (and probably tweeting). Follow/mute at will!
Okay, #Trump has started speaking. He's already slurring. He's already made a joke about "a lot of......MEDIA.".

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It's not just China, pal.
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