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Thank you for being with me on this day after christmas. matt, ill start with you. what might the presidents strategy be here? >> well, the only thing that matters here, the only thing, is what he and leader schumer can agree to. they both know they need democratic votes here to get this thing done to reopen the government. at least for president trump, and i believe for leader schumer too, theres no incentive to give in right now. its riling up both their respective bases. i think its why were ...

For the time being, this is about demonstration to your party base that youre willing to have this fight over a big matter of principle which is either wall or not wall. i also agree that if its ever going to be resolved, it would have to be with some sort of bigger solution than just a small amount of money over here or a bigger amount of money over there. these two parties are locked in, you know, a struggle that is both internal, about proving themselves to their bases, and external with each...

President bush as he took the united states into battle to destroy saddam husseins weapons of mass destruction. but there were none, and the occupation of iraq was a tragic mess. >> bush cant have my son! >> an anti-war movement grew quickly, and it used impeachment as a weapon. >> bring down these war criminals like bush. he needs to be impeached. >> impeachment talk got louder. >> will the house come to order. >> and democratic congressman dennis kucinich introduced dozens of articles of impea...

A full accounting for the mistakes of the previous bush administration. and the people that were the foreign policy architects of that. the decision to go into iraq, the decisions about afghanistan. and i think thats where a lot of people that are coming forward that are anti-trump, maybe never-trump, but a lot of the bases looking at them and saying, you are the ones that made mistake after mistake in the middle east. we do not need you lecturing us. thats what came out. >> morgan: one of the t...

Remember, hes going against james mattis and other, what we could call the traditional republican bases. hes going against them on syria, so this is a very specific thing. hes not going across the ann coulters of the world. >> basil, lets talk about the shutdown. last time, democrats kind of took it on the chin for the shutdown, and chuck schumer caved fairly quickly. do you think the math is different this time around for democrats? >> it feels different, in part, i think, because there are a l...

Here in the heart of the american bible belt, on the fringe of vast sprawling army and air force bases, like a patient accommodating land lord, is fayetteville, north carolina. imagine, most of a suburban strip mall of strip clubs and a downtown which is charming, elegant even, and a scene about everything. its an old town, fayetteville. that tower marks the spot where north carolina ratified the federal constitution back in 1789. im standing on what was a slave market. sherman fought battles he...

The presidents version of that bill, and then they really, you know, then theres the presidents back to square one with no chamber of congress passing anything, and you start all over again, where are we going from here. to the degree that the shut down doesnt affect a lot of people. youre not going to see a huge disruption of tsa, acts at airports or mail with christmas coming, that kind of thing, i think that people arent feeling the pain and there isnt going to be a huge amount of outrage to ...

Conversations continue to move forward. is that relevant given we much watch the president, we must watch what he says and what he thinks really. >> theres two groups as mitch mcconnell said as he convened. there are two groups that are important, one is the president and the other is senate democrats because they have to agree to give over the vote in the senate to get something done and so its these two groups that have to come to an agreement. i think senate republicans theyre there, theyre s...

The president plans to go in the government stays open. he may be alone down there, jordan. >> the weather is nice. a little wind. nice golfing weather down here. >> shepard: worse places to be. the resistance now on owning the shut down not surprising and sort of on cue. >> yeah, thats right. right now you have a situation where both sides dont really have any incentive to give ground. the president asking for $5 billion in money for his border wall. democrats say absolutely no way. were not go...

Had touched bases with prime minister abe and others. therefore, i knew that he was a person who saw the world in an accurate way, where our allies have very important. as he said in his letter we need to treat our allies with respect, especially at a time when china and russia are definitely making their moves. >> one more -- >> and they are near peer competitors to us. >> one more question i want to ask about this and then i want to turn to the shutdown. what do you say to people who say, look...