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Steny hoyer calling what hes done beneath the office. theres two things it underscores. the leak allegation is very serious. the white house has denied it. it just underscores that the governments still shut down and these are the people that are supposed to be talking and figuring a way out of this and it just seems that everybody is further apart and not moving. they believe their winning the political fight and believe their bases are happy. we essentially stand now almost four weeks into thi...

And this is, as barbara says, serious business. it takes a lot of work to put these trips together. and when the president just calls it a pr event, thats because thats how he views this kind of trip. and thats not how the rest of us, who are adults in the room, very this very important effort to touch bases with our troops and also to reassure our allies that this getting out of nato is not something that most responsible -- i would say most of us in the house and the senate do not support beca...

Have a risk of doing what you are suggesting. with a field this big right now for the next six months or so we are just getting to know people. these women are really strong. they have really good bases of support throughout the country. they are going to be making cases to people who dont know them well yet. thats exciting. women dont tend to vote for a woman just because they are a woman. if that were the case we would have had a lot of woman presidents already. they will be making the case on...

Saying that president trump has the ability to cancel her military plane to go on this congressional delegation trip, codell, saying you can fly commercial if you would like but really it would be better if you stay here to help me with the shutdown you. now the ball is back in her court, your thoughts. >> it didnt really seem like it would help the situation get resolved. i think we were just talking backstage about how there is no end in sight for the shutdown. that seems the way it will conti...

You say the obvious play here, obvious, is trading enhanced, better border security for a k daca deal. it seems all of our complaints about leadership, et cetera, are just. part of the problem is that the bases of both parties are fairly polarized. am i wrong? i think donald trumps immigration position at this point is actually sort of moderate. its like give me 200 miles of border wall, but he doesnt say that when he talks to his base. he says wall, wall, wall and they go wall, wall, wall. on t...

Yea. so raarent the people on the ground in america pretty polarized? >> correct. ill tell you my personal experience, we filed a bill that was voted on the floor of the house, we forced republican leadership to debate to consider broad immigration reform and that bill included not $5 billion, $25 billion to border security, path to citizenship for 2 million dreamers and not a single democrat voted for it. i made some democratic friends while i was in the house. some of them came up to me and sa...

Undermining the national security of this country. and when i hear mr. trump say that he is thinking about getting out of nato, an alliance, an organization -- we celebrate the 70th anniversary of nato this april 4th. this the cornerstone of our national security and our partners and allies in europe, to think were going to remove ourselves from that alliance, that partnership that is so important as to giving the united states access to land bases in europe. giving us overflight rights in europ...

Advantage of somebody like mr. trump, who i dont believe is an asset of russia, you know, by the formal term, but i do believe that he is being manipulated and exploited, and that putin, who is a trained kgb intelligence officer, is a master puppeteer in many respects. i just feel as though mr. trump is -- has fallen prey to what mr. putin is trying to do, undermining the national security of this country. and when i hear mr. trump say that he is thinking about getting out of nato, an alliance, ...

Talked about -- i dont expect to see him jumping to save the day any time soon. you cant without the president. >> right. and the president has some members of the caucus and some of them are democrats and its good that people are meeting and i think people should meet and theyll have to cut a deal, right? >> the problem with this and its not a typical washington negotiation. usually you split the difference, but you cant split wall or no wall. how do you get to that resolution? as far as senate...

The president is the democratically elected person in concert with other branchs of government. if he says i want to abandten the 20 u.s. bases because i think they cost too much money, it seems dangerous to define him based on that as a clear and present danger when hes tlr democratically elected person that defines it. >> i think what he was saying is there are somany things mr. trump has done since he assumed the office of the presidency. his inexplicable one on one meeting with helsinki wher...