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Donald trump won an election with low approval rating. so why should he change now? >> well, its not in an election now. thats the most important thing. hillary clinton is in thechappa . hes talking about running now. trump glommed onto it when he was running for office but its artificial. what is going to do in the next 100 days after that. what hes done so far is reduced his leverage with congress especially with democrats in congress who he needs to get some of these things done so it doesnt ...

House. thats a picture this white house is completely comfortable with. >> of course. absolutely nothing wrong with that. it is a weird institution. if the president doesnt want to be part of it thats fine. is what he does in pennsylvania giving him leverage over congress? >> stay tuned to are that. david, jay, great to have you with us. thanks so much, guys. how far will democrats go to block this border wall funding? are they, in fact, itching for a shutdown? a key democrat joins us next. ...

Sake of keeping the government open and functioning. heres some of the rhetoric over the weekend setting up this big week on capitol hill. >> i think thats a fight worth having and a conversation debate worth having for 2018. >> once the government is up and running and stays up and running, we have to fight this out over the next year. >> the democrats do not support the wall. the burden to keep it open is on the republicans. the wall is in my view immoral, expensive, unwise. >> reporter: beyon...

Border wall funding might be unwinnable if democrats will stand up against it. what kind of a position does this put the republicans in up there? >> well it gives remarkably little leverage especially the house leadership, little leverage in a congress when they control both houses. president trump picked the fights that are always on a fast timetable and because of the fast timetable give a lot of leverage to democrats, particularly in this area they were talking about fighting, trying to trade...

Generalities which doesnt help congress to draft legislation. cut a deal. heres what well pay for, heres what we want, but he cant do that because they dont have those details. >> stephen, you point to the critics who say you cant see 4% annual growth, cant happen and you point them to points in listry, during republican and democratic administrations when it has happened. keith hall, the guy, the republicans put in place to lead the congressional budget office, the entity which scores this stuf...

Might be his important week yet in the white house with the lows pproval numbers of any president at this point in the modern era by far. that might be a problem. >> it might indeed. congress meantime has less than five days to pass a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown and the presidents n insistence to fund the border wall in the bill is making the threat more ominous. its a deal breaker for democrats and some republicans are balking. the deadline friday just before the president begi...

Again. what do you make of that? they seem unfazed by the lack of legislative accomplishment outside of getting gorsuch through. >> two things to that, poppy. 56% of americans voted against donald trump, and so those that did vote for donald trump are a minority and clearly a passionate minority but what they want to see from him and what he excels at is the idea of disrupting washington. so he is blowing things up, taking on congress, taking on the courts and the more he does that even if he do...

Has signs as far as hes concerned the administration and the congress should do whatever it takes to avoid a government shutdown. nonetheless, the presidents messages hes been sending over his desire to get funding and any spending bill for his border wall seems to be muddling the message just a bit, his homeland security secretary talking about that just yesterday on "state of the union." >> i think it goes without saying that the president has been pretty straightforward about his desire and t...