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You know, this obviously reflects badly on anybody. but anybody can call themselves a republican but it doesnt make that the values of the party. >> frankly, sir, before i let you go, the government you have has broken with your party and said, okay, we should try and reopen the government. do you see any path forward right now in the congress to reopen this government? >> yeah. the path will start when we all start acting like adults and we talk to each other and we quit using shutdowns as leve...

Donald trump -- i said these things before donald trump said some of these things. >> yeah. and we have to remember, you know, one of the things i was struck by sort of in a flashback way was the failure last night of the president to deny the russia thing. little bit like the failure to denounce the neo-nazis in charlottesville. maybe he gets there eventually, but theres this hubris, theres this wall that he cant so to speak -- thats one wall he built, a wall between him and rationality. so, i ...

Zwroefrping the normal course of business because they had something against him. . >> jeremy bash, your take on that. >> i think the best argument for republicans like lindsey graham and christie is the fbi cannot investigate a commander in chief for being a counterintelligence threat because only the president can set the direction of american foreign policy. however, that line of argumentation will lead them to the exact place that democrats want to go, which is then therefore this is an issu...

Republican colleagues have not been as optimistic. take a look at what a couple have said in the last couple days. >> i have never been more depressed about moving forward than right now. i just dont see a path way forward. somebodys going to get some energy to fix this. >> i am very frustrated. im discouraged. im not depressed. im determined. i am absolutely determined. and im determined because theres a lot of people back home that are really counting on us to figure this out. >> so there you ...

Where historically speaking or foundationally speaking, i guess, i dont want to say quite legally speaking what kind of jeopardy is the president in? >> well, its existential jeopardy. one of the things we havent quite worked through at least in the popular conversation is what that actually means. many people use the word treason. ive done it myself. actually if you want to get really into the weeds and thats unfortunately thats where the truth is, thats where reality is, the constitution desig...

I think that certainly could have been other people who knew what he was up to. >> jeremy bash, what do you make of this manafort development? how important do you think it is in this broader context? we were talking off camera about other things you think play into this narrative this week. >> i think in terms of the manafort convenientment, look, if the information was public polling data, they wouldnt have to share it in the sensitive channel. they could have read it in the newspaper. it seem...

Sque of how do you g question, how do you get out of this? if the president opens the government back up without border security money, the right wing will go nuts. at the same point in times, if democrats in congress, if pelosi puts a bill on the floor and theyre forced to vote for funding, their base is going to go nuts. so as a consequence of each being driven by each partys base. republicans are right, look, democrats have voted for border security in the past but the past is the past. look,...

Syria, because the president has been claiming that the u.s. has won against isis. theres even been a suggestion that the president doesnt necessarily think that this is an important idea for the use. he said, you know, hes opposed to endless wars. what is your take on the presidents latest rhetoric around this? >> i think its wrong. if you look at the facts, nobodys calling for another 150,000 troops in syria. only one hand people say we need to fight war a different way. lets use the people wh...

Probably. but i dont think its the right thing to do. vladimir putin is an enemy of the united states. this administration in many ways has been pretty aggressive against the russians but this is something i just dont quite understand theres this hesitancy to attack vladimir putin personally. i want to get all of the information but it certainly would not make me happy if thats in fact whats going on. >> what do you make of the fbis decision to announce this counterintelligence investigation? do...

They will try to find other way they will need the wall. >> so their own policy is causing the problem, self-inflicted. >> i think its an indication its about the wall for the president, not actually about the facts on the ground, which is what will be the best thing, which effectively a wallboarder agents say is low on their list and why democrats are looking at canada and say, look, if this is about terrorism, we should put the wall around canada. the only terrorists to come across came throug...