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Stopping them is there? does the matter if the democrats want to keep calling witnesses? >> in short, it doesnt. the fact of the matter is, especially on the house side, this investigation has had so many problems, in part because of devin nunes and some of his actions. so maybe at this point its sort of mercifully wrapping up because its just -- i dont know how much its being taken seriously at this point because of all the issues theyve had and how partisan this committee, which traditionally ...

Additionally, conaway and other republicans are now signaling the investigation could wrap up very soon. jeff toobin is back with the panel. jackie kucinich joins us as well. if the republicans on the committee want to wrap up the investigation, theres not much stopping them is there? does the matter if the democrats want to keep calling witnesses? >> in short, it doesnt. the fact of the matter is, especially on the house side, this investigation has had so many problems, in part because of devi...

Job, much like the dueling memos we talked about for three weeks. you had a very weak one offered up by the republicans that, by its own admission, wasnt typically as comprehensive as it should have been, and its conclusions not supported necessarily by the information they provided. then you have a democratic memo which was very comprehensive and ten pages long that really put everything into context. you can see the interest in doing the job is not of the same level between the two staffs. >> ...

As we get closer to the midterm elections and ultimately to 2020, hes returning in a sense to the things he believes and the people he believes brought him to power. some of the hawks on trade, people like peter navarro who have been on the sidelines for awhile and are now in a more central place. china is frankly not surprised. anybody whos been talking to chinese officials over the last couple years knows they have prepared for the possibility that donald trump would pursue a more confrontatio...

To push through a plan that was just announced about a week ago, to abolish the two-term limit. which effectively means that xi jinping could rule for life. the limits were set up to avoid a return to the days of mao tse-tung, the crushing, at times bloody dictatorship, the cultural revolution. this is such a sensitive topic here in china. i want to show you a live picture of cnns feed here, which is now being blacked out by chinese censors, because whenever we start to talk about this, they cut...

Economies in the world enter into some kind of trade war, liz. that doesnt bode well for the open liberal international order. >> no, it certainly doesnt bode well. and i think, you know, the hope will certainly be that, you know, other actors in the united states are going to step in and that president trump looks at this, as evan suggested. hes appealing to his base. these are the people, the steel workers are one of his core constituencies. these tariffs will have enormous and negative impact...

Election. you have the possibility of -- in a district that has a a republican congressman it is a swing district of having a republican and a really lunatic democrat. that doesnt bode well for democratic chances to pick up these seats. >> sandra: demolition derby. a glut of candidates has the party at war with itself. >> it is because we have traditional democrats and we have the resistance. the people whose primary motivation is get to the left of anybody else in their opposition to donald tru...

Sources. damien just mentioned entitlement reforms that need to happen. we have to address the aging of the proposition and the political nonstarters shows how unrealistic we are talking about what needs to get done to preserve these programs and also to get all this borrowing under control. but it all starts with leadership at the top. you need a president whos going to emphasize hard choices instead of massive borrowing at a time when the economy is expanding. theres been zero sign of that. i ...

>> i dont have faith in my democratic colleagues and friends having the fortitude to withstand the onslaught that comes with this. fortitude, you have to have the strength to withstand the onslaug onslaught. we saw that the last shutdown. theres economic factors that people arent paying attention to. from the volatility in the market that weve seen in the last week. dropped 1100 points today. to the fact that gas prices are ticking back up. something i didnt pay attention to. but my wife brought...

Senator durbin of illinois, the key democrat on this issue, that doesnt bode well for a deal being cut in the coming days or weeks. i was in atlanta over the weekend reporting and this daca discussion matters in places like georgia because when you think about that poll, georgia isnt just full of white republicans, theres a rising latino population and white progressives as we saw in the special election for the house last year in the atlanta suburbs, they are energized and speaking to senator b...