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This comes as lawmakers in washington scramble to avoid a partial government shutdown over president trumps demand for $5 billion in border wall funding. negotiations are continuing but the finger pointing has already begun. >> if theres any shutdown, its on president trumps back. the republicans are in control of the presidency, the house and the senate, a shutdown is on their backs. stick to the $1.6 billion. >> our bill contains the presidents full request for the border. ultimately, the pres...

Democrats tapping her wednesday as their partys no, maa nominn the congress convenes in january. were back with dan heniger, kate odell and columnist and senior fellow, jason riley. dan, how does the cohen guilty plea change the narrative, if at all, of the russia, trump collusion story? >> i dont think it changes the narrative very much from what we have been watching. what we have known since the beginning of the investigation is robert mueller would like to nail donald trump and at this point...

So. sometimes and higher rates than white voters.even with the toughest voter id laws. i think the problem is these candidates did not motivate their voters and they should not use racism. >> this is a mess for the trumpet ministrations attacks increases on americans. a.k.a. tariff increases. - - bicycles come from china. 48 percent of christmas lights come from china. weve already paid something like $1.4 billion in new taxes on imports from china. if you go downstairs this year on the tree loo...

Many, many years. weve had this abuse by many other countries and groups of countries that were put together in order to take advantage of the united states and we dont want that to happen. were not going to let that happen. its probably one of the reasons i was elected, maybe one of the main reasons. >> paul: president trump making good on a central campaign promise thursday and slapping tariffs on nearly $60 billion worth of chinese imports, a move meant to punish beijing for what white house ...

That should have been done for many, many years. weve had this abuse by many other countries and groups of countries that were put together in order to take advantage of the united states and we dont want that to happen. were not going to let that happen. its probably one of the reasons i was elected, maybe one of the main reasons. >> paul: president trump making good on a central campaign promise thursday and slapping tariffs on nearly $60 billion worth of chinese imports, a move meant to punis...

Testify bargaining fee toss the american federation of state, county and municipal employees, a union that he says does not represent his values and interests. were back with dan heniger, alicia finley and bill mcgern. the court has considered this in the past and said unions can collect these fees. why are they rethinking that? >> they have considered in the past but the last time they were about to consider it, justice scalia was on the court and he died and probably would have gone the other ...

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Against black people. that was the real original intent. >> paul: no racial discrimination. >> racial discrimination, right. now theyre making this to be about equal representation -- >> paul: by political party. >> right. if you go down that road, i think justice rekliff said in the case, well, equal representation by religion, how do you draw the line there. >> paul: this is even more important, dan, because the supreme court is considering a couple of cases, one in wisconsin, i think one in m...

Taiwan who have been participating in this. those people will be sanctioned. in addition to the ones they did in january, i think its a move in the right direction. its a good idea. and indeed, north korea is being squeezed. shortages of fuel, shortages of food. the question is, at this point in this di lemma dill lem lemmag to make a difference? kim jong un has the vessels. hes has the bombs. is he going to bend to this or is he going to gut it out, another year and push forward with his nuclea...

Union, regardless of whether they join the union. they are plight l call. political. wages, health benefits, those are matters of public debate, including merit pay for teachers. unions take positions at the bargaining table. these are issues that do implicate free speech. >> paul: dan? >> to alicias point. unions have changed over the years. everyone out there probably says i know what unions do, they bargain to protect wages and workers rights. why are the unionse unions favog comprehensive se...