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Important to say that, that the shutdown is mainly affecting democrats he says with republicans seemingly unsympathetic about this thing dragging on, also democrats digging in on their side, what do you make of this bet for no additional funding or no deal? >> well, it is a war of words. they are trying of abstract it from the human problem. people are not getting paid. government workers are having to return christmas presents in order to pay their rent and other bills. they are getting letters...

Thats what he wants to do. those troops were sent there to get isis out of raqqa with the syrian democratic forces. that mission was accomplished. you cant just now change the mission and decide theyre going to contain russia, whatever that even means. so we have to follow our constitution if were going to, you know, use our military forces. eric: do you think the president is right when he says that they can use the iraqi bases that we have to try and move into syria if need be against isis? >>...

Administration, hes going to find out weighing to recover. in his conversation -- >> to cover the bases. >> correct. we remember the phone call with the mexican president who said i need something. the mexican said, no, were not going to play. the president is the head of the government. its his government thats shut down. he is going to figure out a way within ten days of congress coming back a way to back down and then well move on. >> i want to give steve the last question on something we sai...

Play out over the next weeks and months as all of those players inside syria try and deal with the united states moving out. >> of course is seems like these stories always track back to russia in some way, shape or form. russia remains a key al lly of bashar al-assad. where do they come into play? >> its really important what you talk about russia iand syri to remember what the foundation is. syria and the two bases they have there is the only foothold they have in the middle east and they dont...

Everythings trump is following through on a campaign promise, get out of syria, which to a certain faction of his bases but the point in this column is there are others in his basement dont like this at all. shannon: where he is he at the base? >> we dont take position on policy. i will refer to kristin and daniel on that but on the politics the president will have his base with him. there has been a moral case made for why we are in syria. 80%, 90% of republican voters want the president to suc...

Sort of use the bully pulpit at the white house. i mean, the president is upset. hes understand 50%, right? i mean, he cant do anything to convince members of his own party or anybody else that this is somebody you have to listen to, that hes got some sort of influence one way or another. here is where it becomes sort of an issue long-term. the democrats are going to start running their primary around february, march. if the president cannot put more control over members of his own party, if he ...

That big of a deal actually to his re-election. >> thats an interesting point. >> i just dont. >> out on the campaign trail, they like the judges and i take your point on that. but immigration is something that does fire up because remember, the vice president was out on a limb based on our reporting, indicating to members of the senate that, yes, the president would get behind this clean version that youre doing short term. and then you had the rushes, and the laura ingrahams and the members of...

On dark days. trust has collapsed. and you basically see -- if you were to imagine american power as a stock market, its we watc this. we have a lot of capacity around the world. we have intelligence capacity, military air lift capacity. bases around the world. but these are increasingly not focused on americas global interest because donald trump is retracting those interests from around the world and creating great doubts about our leadership on just about everything. i hate to be stark. i don...

Party or anybody else that this is somebody you have to listen to, that hes got some sort of influence one way or another. here is where it becomes sort of an issue long-term. the democrats are going to start running their primary around february, march. if the president cannot put more control over members of his own party, if he cant convince them that that 39% can somehow translate into power for their bases theyre going to abandon him. these are the numbers he had after charlottesville. that...

Government functioning, so if you can do it by half. >> literally the only job. let me pull back for a second because there is strategically thinking from 30,000 feet, both parties have bases who sort of want to see what theyre doing right now. the president has a base that likes the fact hes holding firm. democrats have a base that are like, no way, no how give him any money for that wall. do you think the president is thinking strategically, perhaps trying to build up some good will for 2019 w...