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Independent. but theres this idea that democrats are feeling this new energy, i think, after the fail of health care. theyre saying, you know what, lets stick to our guns. also theyre facing a base, of course, that doesnt want any parts of any deal-making at all. >> i know, but, glenn, theres a weird die cot mchotomy for the democrats. jon ossoff, who is going to be the canary in the coal mine for the democratic party in the next two weeks, the democrat in the runoff in georgia, hes trying to sa...

Deliberate effort by schumer to placate the donor base. in political terms, its extremely bad strategy. detracts from the issues charles was talking about with nunes, the seeming failure of the president in terms of his legislative agenda, at least for a while. gorsuch has a wide range of respect across the political spectrum. it sends the message to the electorate of petty politics added -- at a time when the democrats perhaps have other areas they want to weaponize. >> shannon: is this a hill ...

Chicken. usually these negotiations happen behind the scenes. as far as democrats, they are feeling strong. coming off the health care bill failing in terms of trump. they say there is no foreseeable win for the president when he needs one. they are going to try to make as make as much as possible. >> shannon: we had patrick leahy, saying yesterday maybe im not going to filibuster. >> i think what we are hearing is schumer is playing to the donor base. as long as he talks a big game, you get def...

>> what you are seeing is a deliberate effort by schumer to placate the donor base. in political terms, its extremely bad strategy. detracts from the issues charles was talking about with nunes, the seeming failure of the president in terms of his legislative agenda, at least for a while. gorsuch has a wide range of respect across the political spectrum. it sends the message to the electorate of petty politics added -- at a time when the democrats perhaps have other areas they want to weaponize....

Chicken. usually these negotiations happen behind the scenes. as far as democrats, they are feeling strong. coming off the health care bill failing in terms of trump. they say there is no foreseeable win for the president when he needs one. they are going to try to make as make as much as possible. >> shannon: we had patrick leahy, saying yesterday maybe im not going to filibuster. >> i think what we are hearing is schumer is playing to the donor base. as long as he talks a big game, you get def...

They dont do what they want, and we will see what happens on that front. i assume that the dnc has very good lawyers as well. thank you, debbie wassermann schultz for join g ing us. >> thank you, wolf. and by the way, the staffer who was fired said no malicious intent, and telling cnn by phone, that we knew that there was a security breach in the data and trying to understand it, and what was happening to the best of my knowledge, nobody took anything that would have given the campaign any ben...

That people respond to because they just look at it and they say hell get stuff done, hell just do it, we can trust him to do that. and i think thats a very powerful message for people who feel left behind by washington. >> what do you think about this sort of identity crisis for the gop? >> well, i mean, part of the identity crisis is that hes taken i think as my colleagues said, hes taken the subtext of the republican party and made it the text. this is a party that has always dog whistled to ...

Make, you know, kind ever makes people start thinking about possible combinations and whether or not there is vice-presidential combination when people asked first or second choice. >> sure. it is also telling people have two or three candidates theyre looking at usually. the second choice factors in. i think the campaign that needs to be really concerned about these numbers and recent numbers is jeb bush and by all accounts there is some timeline that theyre working on here that he has to turn ...

Rubio as the best contrast to her message. >> bob, lets address this conjecture that jeb could get out. nobody gets out with $100 million in their super-pac bank, right? >> no, thats right. look, what gets people out of presidential politics is when their treasurer comes to them and says, youre burning $100 million that you dont have. thats when you get out. this debate was a donor debate, particularly for bush. his donors were watching very closely. they looked at it expecting him to do better....

Out of presidential politics is when their treasury comes and says, youre burning $1 million a day you dont have. that gets you out. not that you dont think you can win or hit something right down the road. at what the debate for bush particularly was a donor debate. his donors were watching this very closely. they looked at a time, expecting him to do better and he didnt. youll see more erosion on the donor base. nonetheless, hes still got a lost money in the bank. >> libertarians like to think...