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Donald trump. the protagonist looks up and theres a million arrows coming over the wall. this is one of the first of those arrows. and there will be a lot coming from the democrats into the trump white house. the reality is, for the conservatives, the hard core base, theyll set all this aside, theyll say hes already a proven liar, theyll say we dont care, this is all part of the scheme but for ordinary people to be watching television and seeing the former attorney of the president of the united...

See him suffer and see him pay big time for blinking and redo this and talk about a wall once made out of cement and now out of steel. it could come back to boom rang on them for not finding middle ground. something that l he will not espouse. he could regain the upper hand. >> reporter: he definitely regain upper hand. we have to see what this speech is about. before the shutdown happened, u.s.a. today did a poll saying, should the government shutdown over the wall and the majority of americans...

Have a political strategy in the sense of winning re-election. expanding his vote. he has a save myself from a senate voting to convict after the house impeaches me strategy. its really coming down to whipping up his core base, and the wall does that. thats why hes doing this. this shuts and ends with senate republicans blinking. everyone assumes they go along with the president because they have over the paf years, but there are real consequences to a government shutdown. epa, agriculture, airl...

Particularly women. and, three, women in general. thats the core of our party, the core base. >> kimberly, ive heard a lot from the republican party about acknowledging that they need diversity, but what about the democrats? how important or crucial is diversity for 2020? >> i mean, its very crucial. if you just look at the dem graphics of the democratic party, even its base is far more diverse than the republican base so i think, for example, focusing too much on the midwest, yes, the midwest i...

The legal policy or the hiring policy or the immigration policy within this organization, the trump organization, he could not only suffer exposure beyond the political embarrassment but the fact of the matter is the embarrassment itself and the inconsistency and the hypocrisy of his hard line on immigration compared to how he actually runs his business, his core wont hear about that, right? but the base -- >> thats all he worries about is his base at the end of the day. does it really make wave...

Core base. that 35, 38, whatever percentage might be, of people who have stuck with him from the beginning. hes told people around him thats where he feels if he can cater to them, theres still a path for him in 2020. as bleak as other polls may look its a chance to thread the needle. if he can keep his base, look strong to them and then pick off just a few undecideds and he believes people the polls arent capturing. he feels thats how he won. he thinks he can do it again. in this case, the poll...

Is reveling in the dysfunction that hes causing. and this report in the daily beast that said that team trump is actually gleeful and they think that politically, this is to their benefit to have this shutdown. >> that remains to be seen. i think that there are some people around the president who think that he is looking strong here. that he is doubling down on his core values. the wall was his central campaign promise. it was the theme we heard night after night at every rally, although at the...

Publicly. with the press there. and they baited him, in my opinion. and when they baited him, he said, how long is the shutdown? i want the wall. mexico may or may not pay for it. but i wont even blame you, democrats, right? >> right. >> i was shocked when i was watching it. and so as a result now, hes in a box, right? hes not getting a wall. because the democrats have no pressure whatsoever to give them the wall. and theyre going to take over on january 3. so how does the president get out of l...

Including attorney general, defense secretary, epa administrator, white house chief of staff, field by acting replacements. interior department and mission of the united nations is also losing their leaders. no permanent duties at the department of homeland security. housing and urban department of, small business administration. before the zinke, mattis and gerk posts, trump administration surpassed george bushs administration. trump has surpassed the entire george h.w. bush administration as w...

Through this week, the president is getting closer to the edges of his presidential authority where you reach the point that, and you were right to say, where the republican house and white house certain things cant get done done because you want them to get done and youve got people moving in and out of the administration. i feel like the president is finally getting to the point where he is saying, okay, i want all the people around me to get me what i want when i want it. there are certain th...