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Them with a bias. whether natural or purposeful. the president has been able to take advantage of that by saying they are out to get him. not them. the foil has been useful in keeping such a tight hold over the republican party and its base. that is why i dont think he will ever give it up. as elena pointed out, in some ways, despite the rhetoric, he is one of the more accessible open presidents when it comes to dealing with the media. he loves talking to reporters. he is always telling us what ...

And love taxing what the republicans are doing. were talking about free recess. more recess and no more classes. lets get everybody excited. thats where we are right now. >> neil: mark, im wondering with the clintons over the years where someone like a bill clinton could have been nominated with this party now. >> we dont know who will be nominated. you know, who is getting publicity and also the most left candidates get the most publicity on fox. its a foil. so well see. i dont think -- >> neil...

And time again with president trump he always looks for a foil or scape goat in these situations, when the stock market took a nosedive a few months ago, he blamed the fed chair. now hes looking for a scape goat if he doesnt get the money for a border wall. its easy to blame paul ryan, hes not in office any more. what were seeing is trump really setting up that foil in case this doesnt go out he wants. >> im sorry, congressman. were very out of time. i will get your wonderful opinion in the comm...

Her fist, let us in! >> photographer douglas mills is with "the new york times." >> what is going on, helen? she goes, "theyve locked us out. damn, it theyve locked us out." it was a tough time. >> the door stayed locked for months. >> im deeply honored -- >> until david gergen joined the clinton administration. >> i went to the clintons and said, can we open the door, please? and they said, yeah, lets open it. and it was seen as a symbol of, were going to have a new day. and we began inviting r...

Announce something this week. at the white house and from capitol hill, the president targeting nancy pelosi today in his morning tweets. >> reporter: thats right. working fingers to the bone on the twitter machine this morning. really going after nancy pelosi. of course, a longtime republican foil and president trump obviously, his maim adversary as the shutdown is in record territory stretching into its 30th day. a sampling now of the three consecutive tweets that the president directed at nan...

Promising to bring the presidents proposal to the senate floor. that in and of itself is new, to have mitch mcconnell who had been trying to stay out of this to step forward now and promise to do that. one problem, hes unlikely to get the 60 of 100 senators hes going to need to even get on the bill, to start debating the bill on the floor of the senate. so that may not work for them, but that yet may clarify things even in failure. so theres always hope, i guess. jeff earlier was talking about t...

Fake talks about now faking and rigging the polls. the direction of and for the sole benefit for his boss. you cant make this stuff up, although according to michael cohen, the campaign did try. we begin with the speaker and the president jim acosta starts us off in the white house. where do things stand tonight between pelosi and the president? >> i just checked in with a white house official a few moments ago who said at this point the president still plans to deliver his state of the union sp...

Point the president still plans to deliver his state of the union speech on the 29th up on capitol hill, as was planned before all of this got started. but anderson, its hard to figure out how exactly thats going to take place when you take into consideration this very deeply personal battle that is going on between the president and his new foil here in washington, the house speaker nancy pelosi. that letter that the president fired off earlier today essentially cancelling, i suppose theyre say...

I have heard donald trump -- >> i dont mind the fight. let me say it better, they dont like how its being portrayed. he feels like hes losing the media war. in fact we reported today when nancy pelosi made her move to cancel the state of the union, that the presidents first reaction was actually sort of not of admiration. that was a good play. he appreciates that and thinks of her as a worthy foil. then, of course, as coverage went on and people praising his tactics, he felt like this looks bad ...

Direction. this is not just any old perjury. if it happened it is something that gave more compromising information to the government. >> is it possible that putin is thinking "i didnt want trump to win, i wanted an extraordinarily weak hillary clinton so that trump could be a foil and continue to -- that everybody here -- that he got too much of what he wanted. >> that was most likely the case. i think putin originally believes that he could be an ice breaker to weaken hillary clinton, and trum...