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Wall at all and they dont support the government shutdown to achieve one, when it comes to the voters about whom trump cares the most, republican primary voters and his key supporters in those key states, he is delivering for them, or hes doing what he thinks they want him to do. and thats the key thing to remember. >> lets talk now about how we got here and who might have prompted the president to stick to his guns. he was reportedly influenced by conservative commentators that chastised him se...

Ideological flexible individual. we can look at the positions hes taken on various matters at different times in his life. but he has this conviction and sense that he is there in the white house because he took these particular lines on these particular issues, particularly immigration and border security, and i think that these commentators serve to remind him of that and to sort of make sure that he falls back in to line. now as a matter of leadership, that may not look particularly inspiring...

Clamoring for your tax dollars. >> it will have been a joke presidency that scammed the american people, enraged, amused the populous for awhile, but hell have no legacy whatsoever. >> we know how closely president trump follows these commentators. so despite republicans and democrats initially working out a deal to keep government going and the president agreed, and then changed his mind, how does that make him look? strong or weak. and youll say it depends on who were talking about. >> thats i...

Parenthood or whatever the hell else liberal cause is clamoring for your tax dollars. >> it will be a joke presidency that scammed the american people, enraged, you know, amused the populists for a while, but hell have no legacy whatsoever. >> ann coulter, rush limbaugh, we hear from fox news, we know this president likes to watch television there, fox news, listen to these commentators. is that where the pressure is coming from here? >> it is. in large part it is more than just casting them off...

And this two days after a bipartisan, you know, panel came up with and agreed on mcconnells plan to keep government open until february 8th, but then the president changed his mind, acquiesced to pressure from conservative lawmakers and commentators, and schumer said if you want to keep the government open, youve got to abandon this whole wall concept. >> right, so its okay for chuck schumer to put an absolute line in the sand, but its not okay for the president to try to actually fulfill a camp...

Ma makers and commentators, and you heard chuck schumer underscoring that saying two days ago the senate agreed on a proposal by mcconnell to keep the government open until february 8th, but then the president changed his mind after pressure coming from the lawmakers and from commentators. so a lot that senators, lawmakers are on capitol hill working this weekend trying to hash out will there be a proposal and will it be one that the president would be willing to sign. were going to keep a close...

Done, and he wants to make sure that border security is number one and right now he is able to frame this as democrats need to make a decision. do they want open borders or do they want to open the government. the onus is on them to make that call. >> maria, what part does he want to get done? is it getting government back up and running? is it i want a deal and $5 billion, period, for the wall, nothing else? i mean, whats the "it"? >> well, lets be very clear that what this president has just g...

Having -- if you have an emergency dealing with the federal government, theres going to be no problem, even the santa tracker at norad is going to be working on christmas eve because they have some volunteers that will keep it going. mike: right. >> it is not really all that visible to many many americans. i think at most whats happening here is maybe this buys the president some time to maybe feel like the subject will change or that maybe the public will come to his view and say no big deal, w...

Audience, what congressmen jason chaffetz didnt mention is the offenses act was not solely about the border aspect of it, it was about smart and effective strategies. there are different ways of approaching border security. i find it interesting there has been a shift in talking points to broaden this out to border security but this does come down to the fact that the president thinks compromise is a bad word. i think republicans need to look internally and criticize democrats for making policy ...

I find it interesting there has been a shift in talking points to broaden this out to border security but this does come down to the fact that the president thinks compromise is a bad word. i think republicans need to look internally and criticize democrats for making policy from polling and now you have a president making policy from political commentators getting under his skin. >> youre just making that stuff up, thats not true. >> shannon: i know the panel is going to come back but we have t...