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Were widely blamed for that shutdown. of course you remember ted cruz and some others held up the government spending measure over concerns over obamacare even though they were blamed for that shutdown, of course, they won the senate in 2014. so you have to think that some democrats tonight are thinking about the way that played out and what it might mean for them. is this a risk politically that could pay off for them or at least not be damaging for them in an election year. its very interestin...

Idea that when one side over the last however many years has been playing by the marquis of queensbury rules, the other side has been playing by ultimate fighting rules, thats the democrats and republicans, youre not going to be able to sit down at a table and hash out the fine deal points until both sides have a little bit of fear of the other side. even though democrats are risking some things for november by going this way, what they probably have decided here to do is say look, lets let manc...

American people that if the government does indeed shut doufdon down, that he has it, it will be fine. they will get their paychecks. it wont affect the military. theyre going to work something out with daca. this might be the final moments and congress may be ineffectual in his sight, but he is the leader, the commander in chief. hes there to make the american people feel good. this will be okay. you can all go to bed and go about your business. ive got it. im the big guy. thats usually what pr...

Leadership? you heard jeff zeleny say that the lights are turned off at the white house, and were 58 minutes -- or 49 minutes away from a shutdown. theres not going to be any word from the president tonight? hes not going to speak to the nation to explain, even to frame it in his terms about why the government is shutting down? this is a complete abandonment by the president, who said he was the master deal maker. >> hes going to mar-a-lago tomorrow to host an event. >> do we have jeff zeleny? >...

And talked about it at length. he can go in and fire him any time he wants. he can fire the current fbi director tomorrow, if he wanted to. theres absolutely nothing -- >> that would be interesting. >> theres nothing wrong with that. they serve at the discretion of the president of the united states. >> i want to bring in brian fallin here, you works at the justice department, how do you see it. >> let me go back and correct something jason said. he speculated that jeff sessions was bowing to pr...

I think president trump was wrong in saying, you dont need to step aside and recuse yourself. the president was spot on here. >> brian, youve heard the defense of the president there. give us your response. >> well, this is -- you know, my dad from kentucky had a saying. ive been to three county fairs and a goat wrangling and ive never seen anything like this. this presidency hasnt told me once they made a mistake. ive been in the pressroom for more than a year now. this guy has never said he ma...

I need to get to sanjay. the same thing sort of happens because we have this political talk on television. and as you can probably remember last week i tweeted out a picture of all of us in the green room and all talking and everyone is like you get along and there were harsh words said. they dont realize that sometimes we go out for a beer after this. republican, democrat or whatever we all get along. we may disagree on television, but nobody hates each other on these panels. >> you can disagre...

Welcome back to cnn tonight. my panel is back with me. brian fallin anxious to get in this conversation about tone and we were talking about the presidents tone. >> i think the president should tone down the tweeting for his own legal reasons. in general i think coming out of the moment with gestures of bipartisanship today that we should set realistic goals for ourselves. if we act like they will forget political differences we are setting ourselves up for disappointment. we have a health care ...

Bipartisanship will last in washington and around the country. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> i want to bring in now cnn politics reporter and editor at large political analyst and political commentator ryan lizza and brian fallin, amanda carpenter and mike shields. so im going to go to you just because he is -- >> remember that time you called me by chriss name? >> he wasnt even with the network. i would like to talk about you saw the gentlemen at the ballpark there all three congressman say...

Clearance from the justice department to say it, the guy at the justice dement who gave him the green light was the acting deputy attorney general, he is an obama holdover, thats only going to fuel the paranoia inside the white house about some sort of deep state thats aligned against him. but he is a guy -- these are all people working for the president of the united states. and we all agreed that this should be made public. >> we should not downplay this. what happened today, youre right. was ...