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Absolutely. >> the president likes to fight. and he likes his base to see him fighting. he knows this issue is a winner for him. he knows to eugenes point he did have some erosion on that base that was shown in 2018. i think he wants to show the ann coulters and rush limbaughs and the right wing radio types, hey, im still the guy we fell in love three years ago, nothing has changed, nothing is different. he does not actually care about this issue because if he did, remember, he had an opportunit...

Vitali, eugene scott, and melissa murray, nyu law professor. we begin with president trumps fight for a border wall. negotiations hit a stand still yesterday clearing out the capitol house and senate leaders, sending leaders home with no deal. a at the white house, president trump had lunch behind closed doors with a group of republicans. conservative members urged him to hold out on this, the third shutdown of the trump presidency and there seems to be no sense of urgency here. congress has no ...

Lederman reports on -- an nbc news reporter that essentially he was guaranteed the -- the president was guaranteed that turkey would take over fighting isis and yet turkey has been attacking the kurds. what do you make of that? >> not only has turkey been attacking the kurds but one of the biggest roadblocks that mcgurk and the coalition dealt with was turkey. turkey did not want us to be backing the kurds because they consider the kurds to be an existential threat since a wing of this movement ...

Going to make a much -- much more difficult for him to actually win re-election. but no one should be surprised that democrats arent caving on this. they dont want a wall, period. their base doesnt want a wall. and they certainly dont want americans to pay for it. so the fact that some conservatives are looking at the left saying this is your fault, theyre saying we didnt make this campaign promise. we campaigned against it. so theyre behaving the way that their base wants them to. >> joel, lets...

Fed. take a listen. >> i have to ask the question -- why does he not believe in governments? does not care about the american people? doesnt he know that the economy is uncertain? hasnt he followed the stock market that he likes to brag about sometimes? theres something wrong with this picture. >> eugene, what do you make of her comments that the economy is unstable. thats what nancy pelosi is saying. >> well, the economy has never been as stable as the president communicated. when he talks abou...

Could have again put the pressure on the president and made him make a decision. three, the 2020 hopefuls on the democratic side which is everybodys favorite game im curious to see how theyre reacting. people like beto orourke, elizabeth warren. some are talking about how stupid the wall is and the border crisis. its interesting to see how they use this. >> i love this point that you raise because i think this is critical and it helps us to kind of think about the dynamics moving forward as we h...

This shutdown is something hell own not just now but going into the 2019 and 2020 season thats a big deal because on the campaign trail, the main promise was were going to build a wall. mexico going to pay for it. what that wall looks like has changed significantly. >> i want to pause you there. you were on the campaign trail with donald trump. you heard him say that over and over again. is what he is saying now, does it bear any resemblance to why you heard him say in the campaign? >> we stay i...

Pampers the #1 choice of hospitals, nurses & parents were learning more today about a court filing asking the supreme court to get involved in special counsel muellers investigation. a company wants to take the dispute with mueller to the highest court and theyre facing a subpoena and doesnt want to turn over its records to a grand jury. joel, ali and eugene and melissa are back with me. so melissa, let me just open this up to you. do you expect the supreme court to take this up?