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The president didnt really move opinion in his presidential address from the oval office. im sure hed like another shot at that in an attempt to try to paint democrats in a corner here, which always the potential. i think we have to realize there are a lot of americans that are not paying the kind of attention to this as we, not keeping can score, are not aware of the past statements about trump saying ill own the shutdown and theyre just looking up at washington as the epicenter of dysfunction ...

Announcing to his press secretary hes going to the border wall that he believes thats his leverage or at least thats his next step to get more leverage, so dont look for anything to happen over the next three days, i wouldnt think, because the democrats arent going to raise their hand and say, lets settle this now, mr. president. i guarantee pollingwise with his base he is right in the sweet spot. if he cut a deal now, it would hurt him. is that where the president is, that again, were talking i...

Disincentivized to budge because they are not going to fund a wall. nancy pelosi was very clear on this. i think we are farther away than we have been up and to this point, and you know, we can have working groups and stuff. its up to donald trump. if donald trump does not commit to a deal, its not going to happen. you can have as many meetings as you want. >> michael, donald trump always wants his cake and eat it too, can he le open the government and keep his wall fight going? >> i dont know. ...

Kentucky primaried mitch mcconnell nearly six years ago. hes got to worry about that too. i get why mitch mcconnell is as you said pulling the homer simpson. >> disappearing. >> its the reason he wasnt at the white house. >> had he known he would have been there, of course. you choose what to hear from. >> he could not have gotten farther away from that place. he doesnt want to be a prt of that. he has done up to now what he saw his job as, hold his caucus together, and more or less ignore what ...

Democrats. >> and the president threatened democrats, if they investigate him, he said i think that would help my campaign. if they want to play tough i will do it, and they will see how devastating those pages are. a bit of a threat there. and then, matt, this idea of presidential harassment if democrats were to launch an investigation, which, i dont know, maybe people look at congress doing their job, but we know checks and balances dont always weigh in for this president. >> i think you set i...

Since hes been there, hes been interviewing people to bring into his administration. multiple sources telling cnn homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen could be the next to go as well as the white house chief of staff john kelly. we know these two are the more moderate voices in the administration. >> donald trump is going to double down on the far-right that hes going to try to get re-elected with his base strategy and divide the country. he doesnt think that those two are tough enough o...

Is about to hit him having a party out of power. he hasnt lived through what that is like, divided government for an administration. i think this will be new for him in many ways. politically, you are so spot on. do you know that four years ago the republican party won the suburbs in that election by 12 30i7b points. you cant go from that big of an advantage to just dividing with the other party. independent voters, we forget this all the time because we talk so much about his base strategy, don...

Some places its enough to have one point higher. that puts this question mark on so many of these very competitive races. >> one of your colleagues and brethren put out that he thinks the president has overdone it. he gets it. he makeless the point s the poi rallies the part of his base and may turn away and stay home and vote and turn away in the case of women to vote for the democrats with his tone. is there a way to know that? >> this is why you are seeing the results and the expectation so s...

Start, and one of the things people try to understand about this is where does this come from? why does he -- he plays on peoples fears more than their hopes. it seemed to work very well for him in the primaries. i think he alone figured out on that whole republican ticket that, you know, the people didnt want to hear a version of the reagan formula. they wanted to hear about mexicans, about chinese people, about muslims. has it become instinct for him now? >> well, i would frame it a little dif...

History. it is a base strategy, fareed, because he is trying to get the participation up. he recognizes as most president do hes the leader now and the opposition is going to be more angry and they are going to come out and vote pour aggressively. a lot of other presidents took more of a rose garden strategy as it related to to go out on the campaign. he decided not to do that. he is barn storming the nation. he is making a bet, if he makes the bet and he wins people will say he is a genius thre...