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This trade challenge with mexico, the biggest question for the administration is going to be what exactly do they demand from the mexican government before lifting these tariffs that get put in place. do they -- the president hasnt to my knowledge put down sort of a clear red line, a clear standard for what the mexican government has to do. the mexican president hinted that he would be open to making changes, to trying to persuade the u.s. they had done enough but it would be on the table they w...

Case and thats what the electoral college forces them to do. >> what do you thin when they see a candidate get 3 or 4 million more votes than the winner. >> its massively frustrating. >> trump might have rejected the results. >> which is why its so popular. its a base play to frustrated democrats who have seen this happen twice in 20 years. i get it. >> okay. 55% of americans would vote to amend so the person with the most votes wins. why do some people want to keep the electoral vote? >> we did...

>> i think it was surprising. i dont think a lot of people thought he was going to say -- talk about socialism. i do think it is a total base play. i think this is something that the democrats are having to wrestle with a little bit as the energy on the left is really among the alexanderdry ocasio-cortez and bernie sanders wing of the party. he clearly jabbed right into the fire of where democrats are having soul searching. is the majority of the party socialist? of course, not. this is somethin...

A moment ago, beyond the back and forth on where hi wae wantee wall, whether itd be in california, and what i heard from the white house press secretary this morning, communications director, press secretary sarah sanders, was fear mongering. sarah sanders saying 4,000 terrorists are apprehended at the border every day. thats not true. jacob soboroff will fact check that for us in a moment. the president is talking about smugglers, talking about all the crime that pours over the border. is this ...

Conclusions they came to was that the government was completely unprepared to deal with all of the sort of consequential issues that followed from bringing children across the border. and they didnt specifically at the time look at medical care for the children, but it should come as no surprise given the extent to which all different parts of the government, from hhs to the border patrol to dhs, they just werent ready for it. and this is what you get when you make consequential policy decisions...

Just in the last two hours hes done four tweets where hes threatening to close the southern border and cut off aid to guatemala and el salvador and honduras where he says another caravan is going. two things could happen or more at the same time. congress could maybe carve out something, some fund or something is needed, thats an easy vote. people could show out were starting out bipartisan, if theres emergency funding to help on the border, to show that theyre not leaving children in terrible m...

That, he thinks thats is going just agreed. let me tell you something. if that worked, then i would suggest tonight would be an even bigger shock that 2016. >> the last two years have been about donald trump and his personality, the ability to control the conversation, and hes using that power over the last few months to talk about himself and his accomplishments. and you think think the chief among those would be the economy. we have that jobs report on friday. the friday before election day. b...

On that last week. they tried to get the economy in the last week but its really about a base play for them at this point. >> by the way, president obama, one of the better surrogates trumped only by -- no pun intended -- trumped only in georgia by the oprah appearance. president obama is in the fairfax county district where you see barbara comstock challenged by jennifer wexton and tim kaine. barack obama has been a big weapon here. what the president decided to do, jim, and is to violate his o...

In that case it remains to be seen how much of a difference this will make. and tying it back to the rhetoric weve heard from him about the immigration and such, part of it is -- it is a base play. no attempt to grow his area of support. and that plays into the two houses of congress where, yes, this is undoubtedly costing him votes. it may cost him control but it may in some ways, help with the senate map which is more of his concern. these are red states largely. hes trying to keep control of ...

Comparing the ad itself to george h.w. bushs willy horton ad in the late 80s. what is that designed to do? >> clearly the president is trying to rile people up to kind of put the vitriol higher than it already has been. he continues to stoke those flames, really make a base play for voters that are upset or afraid that this is what is going to happen if immigration reform is not changed if his policies arent enacted. >> i want to play something else, play something from this jonathan carl interv...