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Degrade sovereignty of nations. there isnt a rational baseline to be there. i suppose on the presidents part he simply sees look, again, the deal-making process. he thinks if they are there, maybe something can happen. if they are not there, nothing can happen. >> martha: yeah. i mean, that sounded like what he was saying at the end. if we are going to get together, we have a world to run. so you cant do it unless you get russia to the table. i just found all of that fascinating. but in terms of...

Suffering for so long. >> what is it about? >> making sure we have funding to deal with the opioid crisis, making sure that we have funding, we had all these hurricanes and theres a relief program in there. 40% of the people of puerto rico still dont have electricity, and here you are dithering here on capitol hill. >> what do you want to give up, to be blunt about it, in the deal making process. the republicans dont want daca. democrats and independents, we showed the numbers, want it. what do ...

Head is feeling a little bit better. right now it looks like most of the drama is probably over in the house. republican leadership that ive been talking to, republican rank and file members all seem relatively confident that they can pass this one-month cr, this short-term spending bill, they can get it out of the house tonight. probably with just republican votes. it will be close. it will be ugly. but they seem reasonably confident that they can do it. the problem they have is as of right now...

I want to start with you on the d.r.e.a.m.ers meeting taking place at the white house. sources tell cnn the deal making process right now is a mess. you think that correctly describes what is going on? >> yeah, i talked to people on both sides. democrats are playing their cards right. they know republicans really want a spending bill really bad, a long-term spending bill and they are trying to play that out and they are saying we are not going to give this to you or negotiate unless you give us ...

A deal-making process and i will propose $1 of border funding for $1 of obamacare subsidies. democrats want the subsidies and republicans want the border wall. but without missing a beat, chuck schumer batted back and said absolutely not. this is a complete nonstarter. we are not going to allow you to hold hostage this health-- these health care subsidies so that does not bowed -- bode well for the prospects of shutdown. both parties, white house comes forward and says heres a deal and dems say ...

Youre asking for a supplemental $1.5 billion for the wall this year alone. >> thats not to build the wall, thats just to start it. >> thats just to start the wall, they dont know how long its going to take, some parts of the wall will be built with one thing, they still have to work it us. >> but they can afford ladders. theres going to be a lot of mexican ladders, i can tell you that. >> he was talking about the deal making process, and how great a of a deal maker he said he was. another thing ...

Discussion. >> what that discussion looks like could well determine the fate of the economy, here at home and around the world. >> lets talk more about this with cnn politics, steven colinson. were you able to tell this is political posturing, part of the deal-making process, or policies central to the u.s. and china relationship like one-china really up for negotiation? >> i think its a bit of both, to be honest, victor. you know, its clear that donald trump ran for office on a set of policies ...

Prevent inauguration of a leftwing government. the polls were way out in the end, but the result may have been an actual reaction to them. >> as we mentioned, benjamin netanyahu working to form a government but some of the aftershocks of comments he made in the final hours, including a facebook post where he said right wing government was in danger, made note that arab voters were coming out in droves to the polls, whats the reaction this morning to that? >> reporter: those comments variously de...

The question is whether the dynamic is washington has changed because republican senators are not saying anymore, we need to make him a failure. and he can go to them and say, i can bring this party on. >> one thing that stood out for the administration was this ezra kline post where he was talking to this unnamed republican congressman about deficit reduction. and the congressman didnt know that the administration had offered chained cpi. he just didnt know it. and the administration sort of lo...

That the meeting had deteriorated. do you agree with that? and what seems to have happened in the past 12 hours? >> we made some progress last night. at least i thought we did. but, you know, when i see what the white house has to offer today, its really just more of the same. were going to have real spending cuts. and i dont -- i dont know about some people dont understand about this. but this is a -- this is the first time weve been in this environment. the first time weve had a republican maj...