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For some barrier? >> right. i dont know that i favor a shutdown since i favor us getting this resolved including trying to resolve some of the border security issues. im not for a shutdown, in fact ive been very outspoken opposed to any kind of shutdown. i dont like shutdowns, i dont like what they do to federal workers and to the american people, its the wrong way to be able to do it. but it should be reasonable to do some border security in this period of time. >> so, senator, you just left th...

Now, if paul manafort just wanted to share polling data with a former business associate, you know, he can send the link to 538 like everyone elses following. the fact that hes flying to madrid to have a private conversation with someone involved in russian intelligence, you know, it doesnt get much more of a blinking red -- blifrpging rnki light than that. >> that happened in 2017 after the election. >> in january, though. >> shortly after. >> yes. but the sharing of the poll information, the "...

Wanted that data to go to two pro-russian ukrainian oligarchs who owed him money. how concerning is that to you? >> its deeply concerning. this is why we have to make sure that bob mueller investigation is able to continue to proceed in a fashion where he can continue to collect the facts and connect that with the applicable law and then eventually present those conclusions to the department of justice, to congress and to the american people. with every passing day, every passing week, every pas...

Carefully himself saying repeatedly that anything bad that manafort may have done, oh, wait, i guess he did do some bad things, but it was all before -- i didnt even know the guy. all before he worked for me. it had nothing to do with my campaign. now we know that muellers pursuing a meeting and series of conversations that took place during the campaign. and then you get to what were they talking about? internal campaign polling? why? >> why with a russian intelligence officer? >> well, you can...

>> right, but the polls that were so wrong were wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania. national polls, youll look at the average, nine tenths off. that was like 2012, when they showed the obama/romney race closer. >> were in all these districts and one of the things thats also been true, true in 2006, true in 2010 particularly as this sense that things tend to break all in one way. >> right, right, right. >> youve got 30 toss-up matches in the house, eight in the senate, four completely deadlocked. ...

Seeing, theyre saying we dont want to be associated with this kind of evil. its political sport, yeah, the democrats and their health care or whatever. now were actually talking about a leader whos inciting violence and people are dying as a consequence of it. >> yeah, i mean, i hope thats the case, and i like to think it is the case, and theres also, you know, they may have been -- those republicans who came home, a lot of them came home for two reasons, the supreme court and tax cuts. >> right...

I think that what voters are seeing, theyre saying we dont want to be associated with this kind of evil. its political sport, yeah, the democrats and their health care or whatever. now were actually talking about a leader whos inciting violence and people are dying as a consequence of it. >> yeah, i mean, i hope thats the case, and i like to think it is the case, and theres also, you know, they may have been -- those republicans who came home, a lot of them came home for two reasons, the supreme...

Democrats take back the house. thats going to shape the political dynamic of this country in the presidential election. thats going to matter a lot to who gets elected in 2020. >> final question, which is slightly off topic, but since i have you here, its in the news today, the president has mobilized these troops to go to the border, its 5,000, up to 15,000, inclear, reporting today that the pentagon has shot down, to use a metaphor, a request from dhs to compel law enforcement, et cetera. what...

It was summarized today as democrats refuse to take trumps home stretch bait. whats striking is democrats have run as if theyre running essentially against paul ryan, theyve been running on basically were going to protect medicare and social security, were going to protect the affordable care act, which they tried are repeal, the tax cuts went to rich folks. they havent been focusing on what makes donald trump odious to so many voters. what do you think about that strategy? >> i think its not an...

National polls, youll look at the average, nine tenths off. that was like 2012, when they showed the obama/romney race closer. >> were in all these districts and one of the things thats also been true, true in 2006, true in 2010 particularly as this sense that things tend to break all in one way. >> right, right, right. >> youve got 30 toss-up matches in the house, eight in the senate, four completely deadlocked. you tend to see on election night things moving one way, direction or the other. >>...