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Failed leadership. is this thank sflus. >> yes, i think the self-anointed master emperor has no clothes. so many people around not just this country but around the world that hes full of bluster and rhetoric and i must say that he has fine-tuned that art in terms of being dishonest and being deceitful but now his words are hollow because hes not able to get himself out of these messes. i would like to think more republicans on the hill will separate himself from these positions and also kauts hc...

The showmanship, the bluster. but its not working. i mean his aides are telling him that his build-a-wall slogan doesnt have the same impact anymore. do you see the president closing the deal with an oval office address and he hasnt used that tool yet? >> i dont think so. i think that hes preaching to the choir. the people who are going to support this idea already support it. and i think the rest of us can see whats going on and the fact that he is just manufacturing this crisis. he just did it...

To get president trump to either stay on message or, in many cases, don, to try to steer him away from a particular message because they knew if he went out publicly and said something, it would be much more damaging than what he actually came out and said. ive heard this numerous times from folks that were in the room with him. >> explain that again. what? >> there was so much concern about president trump when you worked for him, about what he was going to say, that a lot of the effort within ...

Compromise rather than further out in the feels of bluster. >> i want to get your reaction to what joe manchin said about the emergency when it comes to the shut down. im curious about your reaction. take a listen. >> if the president declare an emergency, he has a right to do that. it will probably go to the courts and be contested. if that gets us out of a shut down, so be it. i want out of the shut down. >> do you concur if he wants to go down this national emergency road, you probably feel s...

Government shutdown now what weve seen plenty of rhetoric, political bluster, and finger pointing. what we havent seen, any signs of real progress. now president trump is warning he will consider declaring a national emergency to build the border wall based on what happens over the next few days. vice president mike pence wrapped up another meeting with capitol hill staffers last hour after talks yesterday for about 2 1/2 hours went nowhere. no word yet on whether todays talks went any better, b...

Hi, welme the u.s. government now shut down for 16 days so far. we see plenty of rhetoric, bluster and fingerpointing. what we havent seen, any signs of real progress. now they are warning that he will consider declaring it a national emergency to build the border wall based on whats happened over the next few days. vice president mike pence just wrapped up another meeting with capitol hill staffers after talks yesterday went nowhere. but the president himself said no progress was expected at th...

The other pieces of this, jon lemire, you heard the clip there, the president saying theres this idea of invoking a national emergency and building this somehow by executive fiat. i know he raises this possibility of dramatic if vague executive action from time to time. does this fall in the category of bluster or is there something going on in the background here where the white house is actually prepared to try to make some kind of executive move on this? >> there have been a few initial steps...

Open and work on making sure our borders are secure. >> the other piece of -- one of the other pieces of this, jon lemire, you heard the clip there, the president saying theres this idea of invoking a national emergency and building this somehow by executive fiat. i know he raises this possibility of dramatic if vague executive action from time to time. does this fall in the category of bluster or is there something going on in the background here where the white house is actually prepared to tr...

President keeps expressing this confidence that there are many, many federal employees that back his approach here. and it may be true that there are some. you just have to wonder, as you say, brian, as you go from week to week, or possibly on to months, certainly there are very few people that could sustain a year or more without a paycheck. i dont see how the president can even remotely claim that. you will see the heat going up on both sides. despite his bluster today, as jill says, there wer...

He says he wont put a bill on the floor that passed the house because it does not have the presidents support. but interestingly at that news conference, mitch thmcconnell w not there. the president said it was because he was running the senate. actually the senate was closed. the real reason? he was not even told about the press conference but he would have come had he known about it. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. lets talk more about this on doigoing saga with that tasn linstat. thanks for j...