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Senator Ted Cruz used the occasion of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's conviction in federal court on Tuesday to once again call for using the drug kingpin's seized assets to fund the construction of President Trump's promised wall along the Mexican border

The Republican from Texas tweeted on Tuesday: 'America's justice system prevailed today in convicting Joaquín Guzmán Loera, aka El Chapo, on all 10 counts

'U.S.prosecutors are seeking $14 billion in drug profits & other assets from El Chapo which should go towards funding our wall

'Let's pass the EL CHAPO Act and make El Chapo pay to secure our border.' Cruz first proposed the idea in April 2017, while El Chapo was awaiting trial in New York

The bill's title, in addition to being the nickname of the infamous and recently extradited Joaquin Guzman, stands for Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Order

He reintroduced the bill last month.It has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee

'By leveraging any criminally forfeited assets of El Chapo and other murderous drug lords, we can offset the cost of securing our border and make meaningful progress toward delivering on the promises made to the American people,' Cruz said in a statement last month

Cruz's proposal calls for the U.S.government to seek $14billion from Guzman specifically, while also trying to get its hands on funds from other drug lords to cover the cost of building the wall and securing the border

The $14billion is more than twice the amount - $5.7billion - that Trump wanted from Congress for wall funding

Lawmakers tentatively agreed Monday night to a deal that would provide nearly $1.4billion for 55 miles of border barriers, according to congressional aides

The huge funding measure, which combines seven spending bills into one, would run through the fiscal year, which ends on September 30

Details might not be released until Wednesday, but the pact came in time to alleviate any threat of a second partial government shutdown this weekend

In 2017, Guzman was arrested and extradited to the United States to face charges related to running a massive drug trafficking operation that laundered billions of dollars and oversaw murders and kidnappings

U.S.has not found 'one dollar' of El Chapo's estimated $14Billion Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman is shown after his extradition to the United States on January 19, 2017 - one day before President Trump was inaugurated Convicted drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman has continued to successfully conceal his assets, according to the Mexican government

Guzman is believed to have amassed large sums of money throughout years of leadership over the Sinaloa Cartel prior to his extradition to the United States in January 2017, but none of it has been tracked down

'As of today, US authorities have not found not even one dollar of El Chapo's assets,' then-Mexican Attorney General Raul Cervantes said in an interview with Televisa in May 2017

It's estimated Guzman took in more than $14 billion while reigning over his drug cartel, based on his U

S.indictment.The federal charges seek the forfeiture of those drug proceeds and illicit profits allegedly derived from the Sinaloa cartel's activities

But first federal authorities have to trace and locate it, if it even actually exists in such a sum

At least one expert on Mexico's drug cartels told Forbes that the figure of $14 billion is 'too high' and does does not take into account operating and protection expenses that Guzman incurred over his 30-year criminal career

'The drug business may earn Mexican drug lords up to $20 billion or so a year,' the University of Miami's Bruce M

Bagley said.'El Chapo probably makes well below a billion per year.' Operating expenses may included things like bribes to public officials and profit sharing with the cartel, itself, Bagley said

'…Expenses are running high, his lieutenants are increasingly greedy and disloyal

His children now control his wealth and split it among themselves.Nonetheless, I have no doubt that he is still a billionaire as of 2016,' Bagley said

Regardless, whether Guzman actually has $14billion at present time is more of a theoretical question

Most seem to agree that he has a fortune, but no one can seem to find it.'His money hasn't been found because he didn't use the financial system,' Cervantes said

Mexico has only found minor assets belonging to Guzman, Cervantes said.Jurors in a Brooklyn federal court convicted him on all 10 counts that are likely to put him behind bars for the rest of his life

He is set to be sentenced on June 25.The 61-year-old Guzman broke out of Mexican prisons twice before he was finally recaptured and extradited to the U

S.in 2017.Federal prosecutors put on more than 50 witnesses over three months detailing how Guzman's Sinaloa cartel amassed billions of dollars importing tons of cocaine, heroin, meth and marijuana into the U

S.Guzman stared at the jury straight-faced as the judge read the guilty verdict.Guzman leaned back in his chair Tuesday to catch the eye of his wife, who gave him a subtle thumbs-up, when the jury was discharged from a federal courthouse in Brooklyn

But Jeffrey Lichtman added he can 'proudly say' the defense 'left it all on the battlefield

' U.S.District Judge Brian Cogan lauded the jury's meticulous attention to detail

Cogan says it made him 'very proud to be an American.' El Chapo's lavish billionaire lifestyle included private zoo, three private jets, and trips to Switzerland for anti-aging treatment Alfredo Guzmán, the son of El Chapo, posted this picture of his lion cub and his Bentley Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was so rich, he had a private zoo where big cats roamed

And so rich, he traveled to Switzerland for an anti-aging treatment.Guzman's excesses were detailed during his trial in November by former cartel crony-turned-government witness Miguel Angel Martinez, who told jurors that a 'cocaine boom' in the early 1990s fueled the lavish spending spree

'He had houses at every single beach,' said Martinez, formerly a close friend and top assistant

'He had ranches in every single state.' Martinez described how the Sinaloa cartel was smuggling tons of cocaine into the United States - through tunnels dug under the border, in tanker trucks with secret compartments, even in fake chili pepper cans

El Chapo's son, Ivan Guzman, posted this huge stash of cash to his Facebook page Ivan shared other photos showing his dad's excesses

A private plane is pictured above 'They [workers] got intoxicated because whenever you would press the kilos, it would release cocaine into the air,' Martinez told the jury in his colorful testimony

What came back in the other direction, he said, was tens of millions of dollars in cash

Much of it ended up in Tijuana, where Guzman would send his three private jets each month to pick it up, Martinez said

On average, each plane would carry up to $10 million, he said.The cartel used stash houses to hide much of the cash, Martinez said

Samsonite suitcases stuffed with U.S.currency also were taken to Mexican banks, where workers were bribed to exchange it for pesos, no questions asked, he said

Guzman also used his jets to fly around Mexico with armed bodyguards to visit all his homes, including an Acapulco beach house featuring the zoo with a 'little train' used to ride around and see lions, tigers and panthers, he said

There also was a yacht docked there called 'Chapito,' he said.Among his other expenses were 'four to five' women in Guzman's life, Martinez said with the defendant's wife listening from the gallery

'We had to pay them all,' he said.Over time, the kingpin who grew up in poverty developed a taste for world travel, he said

Ivan posted this picture of a gold-plated AK-47 in his Ferrari His entourage visited Macau to gamble and Switzerland so he could get a 'cellular youth treatment,' he said

The good times were spoiled by a bloody turf war with a rival cartel that grew so heated it sent a team of hit men to an airport in Guadalajara to try to take out Guzman, Martinez said

They instead killed a Roman Catholic cardinal, outraging the Mexican public enough to touch off a massive manhunt for Guzman, who was arrested before carrying out a plan to hide out in El Salvador, he said

He has pleaded not guilty to drug-trafficking charges, with his lawyers claiming he's being framed by shady cooperators

In opening statements, a defense attorney suggested Martinez couldn't be trusted as a witness, saying he had such a severe cocaine habit while he was working for Guzman that it damaged his nose

He admitted that 'unfortunately' he was using up to 4 grams of coke each day at the time, but hadn't touched it for 20 years

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Trump Ally Paul Manafort INTENTIONALLY Lied To Mueller's Team, Court Says - Duration: 5:26.

Yesterday, a federal judge ruled, did Robert Mueller special prosecutor had presented efficient

evidence to show that former Trump campaign manager, Paul Manafort, intentionally lied

to the special prosecutor's office and other investigators as part of their ongoing probe.

And because the judge says Paul Manafort intentionally and deliberately lied to the prosecutors,

uh, there are no longer bound by this agreement that they had the plea deal.

So Robert Muller no longer has to come in and try to argue that Paul Manafort should

receive some kind of reduced sentence for the fraud and conspiracy charges that he was

guilty of.

So now, Paul Manafort, because of this ruling yesterday, is looking at a full prison sentence

and given his advanced age, almost 70 years old, it's likely that Paul Manafort is never

leaving a prison again for the rest of his life.

All because he chose this is according to prosecutors in this case, he chose to mislead

everyone about his connections to people in Russia who had connections to intelligence

agencies in Russia.

So the big question is, who gives a shit about Paul Manafort?

What does this mean for Donald Trump?

Right?

I know that's what everybody's wanting to know here.

Well, the answer is not a whole lot.

See, most of the things that Paul Manafort was convicted of where things that actually

happened long before he ever joined the Donald Trump campaign.

So this is not necessarily the end of the line for Donald Trump, but Manafort was cooperating

with Muller's office in order to get this reduced sentence.

So if Manafort is feeling a little, oh crap, they don't have to abide by this plea agreement

anymore, maybe I'll go ahead and shovel out every piece of information.

I know.

Stop lying to everybody and tell them everything that happened during this campaign.

Who reached out to whom were the other people were from?

What governments were they working on behalf of?

Was it Saudi Arabia was a UAE, was it Russia?

Paul Manafort might be the kind of guy who would know those kinds of things and sensing

the fact that he could be facing the rest of his life in prison.

He may be willing, if he has that info, to turn it all over to Robert Mueller in an attempt

to get them to still honor that plea deal.

However, none of this is certain at this point.

We don't know what Manafort knows.

We don't know how much he understands things.

We don't know his involvement in any of that.

So I guess basically this story gives us a much bigger question mark than we had even

before the story came out.

But we do know one thing, and this is one thing for certain, for a guy who claims that

he didn't do anything wrong, Donald Trump, he sure surrounded himself with a lot of people

who have routinely proven to be liars, thieves, and con men.

It is incredibly unlikely that Trump himself is not cut from the same cloth.

You don't surround yourself for your entire life with nothing but criminals.

If you yourself are not

also a criminal.

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BIG WHITE HOUSE RESIGNATION JUST ANNOUNCED, SHOCKED TRUMP HAS ISSUED IMMEDIATE STATEMENT ON IT - Duration: 6:29.

BIG WHITE HOUSE RESIGNATION JUST ANNOUNCED, SHOCKED TRUMP HAS ISSUED IMMEDIATE STATEMENT

ON IT

WHITE HOUSE DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF JOE HAGIN , 62 , SUDDENLY RESIGNED HIS POST THESE DAYS

. I WAS AMAZED BY THE PRESS RELEASE . HE DIRECTED THE ADVANCE GROUP FOR THE SPEAKS WITH NORTH

KOREA'S KIM JONG-UN IN SINGAPORE THIS CALENDAR MONTH ON BEHALF OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND PRESIDENT

DONALD TRUMP . HAGIN IS AN SKILLED CONSULTANT WHO HAS SERVED UNDER THREE OTHER REPUBLICAN

PRESIDENTS . HE WILL LEAVE HIS POST NEXT MONTH ACCORDING TO THE WHITE HOUSE .

HAGIN SERVED IN THE ADMINISTRATIONS OF RONALD REAGAN , GEORGE H .W . BUSH AND GEORGE W . BUSH

. HE STATES HE IS COMING BACK TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND HIS OFFICIAL . "JOE HAGIN HAS

BEEN A MASSIVE ASSET TO MY ADMINISTRATION ," PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP STATED IN A DECLARATION

THAT WAS LAUNCHED INSTANTLY . "HE PLANNED AND EXECUTED THE LONGEST AND ONE OF THE MOST

HISTORIC FOREIGN TRIPS EVER MADE BY A PRESIDENT , AND HE DID IT ALL PROPERLY . WE WILL MISS

HIM IN THE OFFICE AND EVEN MORE ON THE ROAD . I AM GRATEFUL FOR HIS AMAZING SERVICES TO

OUR WONDERFUL COUNTRY ."

HAGIN WAS ALSO THE ONE WHO CREATE DONALD TRUMP'S FIRST OVERSEAS TRIP TO SAUDI ARABIA , ISRAEL

, BELGIUM AND ITALY A YEAR AGO , AND HIS TOUR OF ASIA LAST NOVEMBER . HE WAS A EXTREMELY

VITAL FORCE IN THE ADMINISTRATION AND HIS SHOES WILL BE VERY HARD TO FILL . "JOE HAGIN

INTRODUCED A LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE AND INSTITUTIONAL UNDERSTANDING THAT IS UNRIVALED ," WHITE

HOUSE SPOKESWOMAN SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS SAID . "HE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED BY ALL OF US

." ALTHOUGH NUMEROUS WERE STUNNED BY THE STATEMENT

, EVIDENTLY HAGIN DESIRED TO LEAVE SEVERAL MONTHS AGO . BUT WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF

JOHN KELLY COVINCED HIM INTO STAYING ON . HAGIN KEPT THE TITLE OF DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF FOR

OPERATIONS , THE IDENTICAL POSITION HE HELD UNDER PRESIDENT GEORGE W . BUSH . HE'S ONE

OF THE STRENGTH PLAYERS YOU NEVER HEAR OF , BUT ONE THAT GETS THINGS COMPLETED . HE

HAS 3 PARTNERS AND FOUNDED COMMAND CONSULTING GROUP , A CLUSTER OF FIRMS THAT OFFER SECURITY

AND INTELLIGENCE ASSISTANCE TO GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES , COMPANIES AND RICH PEOPLE . I

BELIEVE THAT IS THE COMPANY HE WILL RETURN TO ONCE HE DEPARTS THE WHITE HOUSE . HOWEVER

, OTHER PEOPLE SAY HE IS NOT COMING BACK TO THAT COMPANY , BUT IS RATHER LOOKING AT OTHER

POSSIBILITIES WITH A NUMBER OF COMPANIES .

"JOE HAGIN'S SELFLESS DEDICATION TO THIS COUNTRY AND THE INSTITUTION OF THE PRESIDENCY

IS UNEQUALED . I AM FORTUNATE TO HAVE SERVED ALONGSIDE THIS GREAT AMERICAN , AND I AM EVEN

MORE BLESSED TO CALL HIM MY BUDDY ," WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF JOHN KELLY SAID IN A

DECLARATION . "JOE WILL BE MISSED AT THE WHITE HOUSE , AND I DESIRE HIM GREAT GOOD

RESULTS AND HAPPINESS IN THE FOLLOWING CHAPTER OF HIS LIFE ."" KELLY SAID IN A DECLARATION

HAGIN WAS REALLY REGARDED FOR THE NO . 2 POSTS AT THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY OR THE

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY , BUT HE DETERMINED TO LEAVE GOVERNMENT SERVICE . HIS PORTFOLIO

INCLUDES OVERSIGHT OF THE SCHEDULING AND ADVANCE STAFFS , AS WELL AS THE MILITARY OFFICE — INCLUDING

THE REPLACEMENT PROJECTS FOR AIR FORCE ONE AND MARINE ONE .

HAGIN'S LEAVING WILL LEAVE CHIEF OF STAFF JOHN KELLY WITH JUST ONE DEPUTY : FORMER MICROSOFT

AND GENERAL MOTORS EXECUTIVE CHRIS LIDDELL , WHO IS ACCOUNTABLE FOR COORDINATING POLICY

. HAGIN HAS RUN WHITE HOUSE FUNCTIONS FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR 17 MONTHS , SUPERVISING

THE DAILY MANAGEMENT OF THE PRESIDENCY DESPITE CONFUSION AND UPHEAVAL . NOT TO POINT OUT

CONSTANT MASS MEDIA STRIKES . HE IS PART OF THE OLD GUARD REPUBLICANS . HAGIN OVERSAW

THE WHITE HOUSE PERSONNEL SECURITY OFFICE , WHICH DEALS WITH SECURITY CLEARANCES . THEY'VE

HAD THEIR SHARE OF PROBLEMS THIS YEAR .

THE MASS MEDIA IS RATCHETING UP THE RUMOR MILL OVER HAGIN . THEY QUOTE 'SOURCES'

LIKE THEY ALWAYS DO AND DON'T GIVE PARTICULAR NAMES . THEY ARE SMEARING HAGIN FOR ALL THEY

ARE WORTH , WHICH ISN'T MUCH AND I DON'T ASSUME ANY OF IT . HAGIN IS PART OF THE TURNOVER

THIS YEAR FOR THE DONALD TRUMP CURRENT ADMINISTRATION . HE WAS A GENUINE ASSET TO THE PRESIDENT

TRUMP , BUT HE HAS SERVED A LONG TIME UNDER NUMEROUS PRESIDENTS . I'M SURE THAT THE

PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL DISCOVER SOMEBODY VERY COMPETENT TO TAKE HIS PLACE…

IT WAS JUST BAD TIMING AS FAR AS I CAN SEE . BUT THERE IS NEVER A GOOD TIME FOR ANYTHING

LIKE THIS .

A WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL CLAIMED THAT FOLLOWING LEAVING SINGAPORE LAST WEEK , TRUMP MADE A

RARE PRESENCE IN THE STAFF CABIN OF AIR FORCE ONE TO PRAISE HAGIN FOR ARRANGING THE KIM

SUMMIT AND THEN LED WHITE HOUSE STAFF IN A ROUND OF COMPLIMENTS FOR THE AIDE . IT WAS

WELL-EARNED . HAGIN WAS CHOSEN TO THE DONALD TRUMP WHITE HOUSE BY PREVIOUS CHIEF OF STAFF

REINCE PRIEBUS TO BRING A SEASONED HAND TO A WEST WING THAT HAD FEW SKILLED VETERANS

. HE HAD PREPARED ON REMAINING ONLY SIX MONTHS TO A YEAR AND CONSIDERED DEPARTING IN THE

SPRING , BUT POSTPONED DUE TO PLANNING FOR THE SINGAPORE SUMMIT . THAT IS NOW DONE AND

HE WILL LEAVE AS HE EVIDENTLY PLANNED . I CAN TELL YOU THIS , HE WILL BE MISSED .

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Why Trump seeks to overthrow Maduro himself? (Valeriy Pyakin 2019.02.04) - Duration: 7:12.

Presenter: Next question is from K Arthur (61 other people also voted for it).

Why did Trump of all others personally take on the task to overthrow Maduro?

I mean both of them work for the interests of the Global Predictor?

Am I correct thinking that this is the scenario, according to which Trump purposefully discredits the USA in front of the whole world

by overthrowing the legitimate government openly, so that even the blind could see it?

While Venezuela is to hold its ground and demonstrate to the whole world that the USA's dominance is over.

Besides, initially it was the US country "elite" who were trying to overthrow Maduro. Obviously they pursued different goals.

Did Trump intervene and reformat everything to match his interests?

Valeriy Pyakin: Trump is doing that to match not his interests but the worldwide ones, because

it's in the interests of the whole population of planet Earth to avoid nuclear world war. And to reformat the USA in a more or less peaceful and bloodless way.

The US country "elite", on the other hand, do not understand that with their foreign policy they interfere with the global politics.

And overall they do not understand interrelationships of governance processes.

However odd that might seem, this is the reality.

General educational level of the US country "elite" and the US establishment has already become clear to everyone.

It all started with Psaki. When I was defending her, I was saying: "Guys, she is the same as the rest of the Americans.

She is not the dumbest one out of the US State Department representatives. She was appointed to this position because

based on the level of her knowledge and intelligence she is no different from all the other public officers that come there".

Now it's becoming obvious to everyone.

And it's exactly due to the fact that they have this level of education, and don't understand the global magnitude of their actions,

they need the world war that would reset all of the US debts to zero, while the US would sit it out across the ocean.

After which they would turn up and once again dictate their will to the whole world the way it was after the WWI and WWII,

both of which in fact represent two rounds of the same world war that was going on in the 20th century.

Anyways, the US country "elite" did a lot to reformat Latin America to fit their interests

by fighting against BRICS and other processes that dissociate the US from the world governance.

They succeeded in changing leadership in many countries of Latin America,

and bringing these countries of Latin America to a common standard under the US order,

which manifested itself in the actions of the Organization of the American States against Venezuela - and against the leader of Venezuela, President Maduro.

The goal of the US country "elite" is not to get involved with a war in Venezuela. They simply don't have resources for that.

Everything they had was wasted all over the world.

At this point they don't have enough military forces to ensure their presence everywhere.

The goal of the US country "elite" is to direct the events in Venezuela similar to the events in Yemen,

when it was the coalition led by Saudi Arabia that was fighting against Yemen.

This is the goal that the US country "elite" is pursuing in Venezuela - to make all the countries of Latin America get stuck deep in war against Venezuela.

Then it would be easy to control this region, collect energy resources for free,

make themselves at home - the way they got used to in Latin America since the mid 20th century.

Trump's goal is to not let that happen because this scenario might result in a worldwide catastrophe.

The US country "elite" don't understand that the moment they knock this domino tile out, a chain reaction will start that would cover

all the countries, nations, continents and it would be extremely difficult to keep peace on planet Earth.

Note, after the coup d'etat in Russia it will be IMPOSSIBLE to keep the world from the catastrophe

(therefore, no compromises here are acceptable whatsoever - we must prevent the take-over in Russia from happening.

The life of this whole civilisation on planet Earth is at stake here).

However, after this process starts in Latin America, it will still be possible to keep the world from the catastrophe, though extremely difficult.

VERY DIFFICULT.

And Trump's purpose here is to be, so to say, a safety valve

for the excessive pressure that the US country "elites" created in Latin America to come out from into a whistle.

This is what Trump is doing.

Doing in such a way, mind you, as to show to US country "elites":

"Guys, think yourself, can this really be done? No it cannot. What about this? No."

In other words he just shows them:

"Guys, you got yourself into solving the task that you cannot handle, but that will result in the US being the first one to crash down".

That's why he took the lead in this process.

Besides, he is the leader of the country. He couldn't not take the lead in it.

To neglect this process of the global level significance would mean to completely let the governance inside the country slip.

That's it. That's why he couldn't help but get involved.

For more infomation >> Why Trump seeks to overthrow Maduro himself? (Valeriy Pyakin 2019.02.04) - Duration: 7:12.

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Trump wont commit to signing border security deal ahead of shutdown - Duration: 4:16.

Trump wont commit to signing border security deal ahead of shutdown

Another week in Washington comes with another chaotic scramble to prevent a government shutdown.

With a little more than two days to spare before funding lapses for the second time since December, confusion reigned Wednesday. Congress hurried to hash out text for spending legislation, as a few remaining snags reportedly delayed the release of a final plan.

News outlets say President Donald Trump is expected to sign what lawmakers pass — even as Trump and his administration stress that he wants to see legislation before backing it. On Tuesday, the president said he was "not happy" with the agreement but did not expect another shutdown.

Still, a confusing rush to keep the government running looks likely in the coming days. About a quarter of the government shuts down if lawmakers fail to beat a midnight Friday deadline. At stake are the paychecks of about 800,000 government workers already battered from the last funding lapse, along with crucial government services such as food inspections and air traffic control.

While Trump is likely to sign the spending measure, which puts about dollar 1.4 billion toward physical barriers on the U.S. Mexico barrier, NBC News and other outlets reported, the president has changed his mind in the past. He did so before the start of a record 35 day shutdown during December and January.

As part of this weeks tentative deal, lawmakers allocated only a fraction of the dollar 5.7 billion Trump demanded for his proposed border barriers.

On Wednesday morning, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders would not commit to the president signing the legislation.

"Look, well see what the final package looks like, but like you said and like the president himself said yesterday, hes not happy about it, but hes going get the job done no matter what. Hes got alternative options [to build the wall] and hes going keep those on the table," she told Fox News.

Still, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi showed optimism on Wednesday about avoiding a shutdown. Entering a Democratic caucus meeting, the California Democrat said, "I think were in a pretty good place."

House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D N.Y., expects a House vote on the spending deal as early as Thursday, he told reporters Wednesday. He believes an "overwhelming majority" of House Democrats will back the legislation, despite opposition from some members. Some Democrats have pushed for cuts in the cap on Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention beds for interior enforcement — which were not included in the agreement.

Trump showed signs of accepting the deal on Tuesday night after Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Shelby, R Ala., briefed him on the proposal. The president downplayed the lack of funding he sought for his proposed border wall. He claimed he would allocate money from other parts of the government for the project.

"Regardless of Wall money, it is being built as we speak!" Trump tweeted.

Trumps desire to wait until Congress releases a bill poses its own problems. Appropriators drawing up final legislative text ran into several issues on Tuesday night, . Among the sticking points is the language allocating dollar 1.375 billion for barriers, a potential provision to guarantee back pay to federal contractors affected by the last shutdown and the extension of the Violence Against Women Act.

The news outlet wrote that "these problems might very well be solved." Shelbys office stressed that negotiators are hashing out final details, which is typical for sprawling legislation.

A Democratic aide said the issues outlined by Politico were not resolved as of Wednesday morning. However, the person does not believe the roadblocks pose any serious risk to the legislation getting through Congress.

The spending legislation would cover nine federal departments, so it leaves room for many disagreements — and potential provisions for Trump to dislike.

With wounds from the last closure still fresh, congressional leaders have pushed Trump to keep the government open. Top Republicans and Democrats have backed the still developing deal.

On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R Ky., pushed lawmakers to pass the agreement, saying, "Its time to get this done." If it reflects the deal announced by appropriators Monday, "it wont be a perfect deal, but it will be a good deal." The comments mark a notable shift in tone from McConnell, who in December said he would not pass any spending bill without knowing the president would sign it.

Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D N.Y., have supported the agreement, as well.

Before the last shutdown, opposition from Trumps conservative allies in Congress and the media in part led him to threaten to veto any legislation that did not include dollar 5.7 billion for the border wall. While some conservatives have criticized this weeks deal — Trump confidant and Fox News host Sean Hannity called it a "garbage compromise" — appetite for a shutdown on Capitol Hill has all but disappeared.

Trump ally Rep. Mark Meadows, R N.C., expects the president to keep the government running this time.

"To veto it would cause a shutdown, and I dont see him doing that," he told CNBC on Tuesday.

— CNBCs Ylan Mui, Karen Sloan and Kevin Breuninger contributed to this report.

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Trump crows about Senate Intel Committee finding 'NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION' after senator's remark - Duration: 4:26.

President Donald Trump crowed Wednesday about statements by the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee that the panel's two-year probe has not found evidence of collusion between his campaign and Russia

The president trumpeted a fresh comment by panel chair Sen.Richard Burr, who has gone on record twice about what his panel has not found following a two-year investigation

'The Senate Intelligence Committee: THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIA!' Trump tweeted Wednesday morning, using all capital letters to reiterate something he has himself proclaimed throughout his presidency

Burr told reporters Tuesday: 'There is no factual evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia

' And NBC News confirmed the panel had found no 'direct evidence' of a conspiracy between the campaign and Russians, even as the Mueller probe has achieved convictions of top Trump campaign advisors and associates for lying about their Russia contacts during the campaign

Burr, a Republican senator from North Carolina, gave a lengthy interview to CBS News last week where he said his committee staff has worked for two years, interviewed more than 200 witnesses from multiple countries and reviewed over 300,000 pages

'Based on the evidence to date,' Burr said his panel could not definitively say there was collusion between Trump and the Russians

'If we write a report based upon the facts that we have, then we don't have anything that would suggest there was collusion by the Trump campaign and Russia,' Burr told the network

However, panel Democrats are disputing Burr's statement.'I'm not going to get into any conclusions I have,' said top Democrat Sen

Mark Warner of Virginia, adding: 'there's never been a campaign in American history

that people affiliated with the campaign had as many ties with Russia as the Trump campaign did

' Warner told Mother Jones the probe is far from completed.'We've still got many of the most major figures to either come or come back,' he said

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe is also continuing, despite repeated claims by President Trump's legal team that it is wrapping up

Weeks ago federal prosecutors indicted longtime Trump lawyer Roger Stone with witness tampering and obstruction, and obtained electronic communications through an FBI raid on his Florida home

Prosecutors have revealed in court filings that Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort passed campaign polling to former Ukrainian partner Konstantin Kilimnik, who has ties to Russian intelligence

'The notion that the president's campaign manager was sharing internal campaign documents with the Russians in advance of the release of information that came from Russia and that interfered massively with the campaign is mind-boggling,' Warner told Mother Jones

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