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Whenever we would get ourselves in trouble, the 2013 shutdown being a good example, was fight. we would have republican members who would stand up in house republican conference meetings and say we need to fight more. whenever you heard the word fight, what it meant was we need to throw a lot of punches, but theres no strategy to win the round, to knock out your opponent. so often we didnt win the fight. this is exactly where the democrats could potentially be setting themselves up to do, this u...

Cnn. cable news network. you are throwing all the dice on this one. >> why not? nothing ventured, nothing gained. >> well, on that original point, mr. turner, thank you very much, indeed. >> i wanted to see what was going on in the world. and there was no way that you could do it watching the regular television stations. the news only comes on at 6:00 and 10:00. but if there was news on 24 hours, people could watch it anytime. >> we signed on on june 1, and barring satellite problems in the futu...

Evidence that were aware of, or what is likely to come out, certainly doesnt suggest to me that there is anything out there that might garner 67 votes in the senate and nancy pelosi knows that, jerry nadler knows that and theyre just not going to go on that fools errand. >> if democrats in the house take it slow and decide it is damning enough to proceed to impeachment, they would be basing that conclusion on the report of a republican former fbi director, recipient of the purple heart and bronz...

Happy about. >> it was important to make the point that what mattered was, what kind of reporter are you? it took the christine craft incident, i think, to bring that conversation out into the open. >> this coming sunday, a new television network opens for business. cnn. cable news network. you are throwing all the dice on this one. >> why not? nothing ventured, nothing gained. >> well, on that original point, mr. turner, thank you very much, indeed. >> i wanted to see what was going on in the w...

Some pieces of land are as wide as parking spots. we have to go to court and actually get through that process and actually pay fair market value to the land owners. remember the secure fence act of 12 years ago? were still in court with over 100 separate cases. the president is not going to have his wall built even if he gets a second term. its a fools errand. they should focus on a technological solution which is really what customs and border patrol want. plus focus on the real immigration pr...

January 3rd when democrats take control of the house. >> shannon: senior capitol hill producer chad pergram is with us now. with that as a backdrop, tell us what is going on and whether or not this shutdown is a fools errand. >> heres the issue. the wall has been the problem since they dealt with the short shutdown this winter. it has been a flash point all year long. vice president mike pence was here most of the day, and he met this evening with the chair of the senate appropriations committee...

Republicans if awakened from a long dream, sort of a while you were sleeping dream and understood yesterday that donald trump actually -- his foreign policy at least is bad for americas long-term national interests. >> i think mcconnells statement is fascinating. what mattis state in his statement is trump has a mature, fully formed foreign policy opinion with which he disagrees and that he can no longer count nance that is contrary to mattis understanding. calling on trump to hire another matti...

Substance and to good journalism, i think we got something to be happy about. >> it was important to make the point that what mattered was, what kind of reporter are you? it took the christine craft incident, i think, to bring that conversation out into the open. >> this coming sunday, a new television network opens for business. cnn. cable news network. you are throwing all the dice on this one. >> why not? nothing ventured, nothing gained. feint heart neer, fair lady. >> well, on that original...

Job. i dont think folks were out there knocking on the door saying, hey, consider me your backup plan, no one thought he was going to turn it down. now the president has an opportunity to find someone who can do a couple things, number one, deal with these investigations, i think it would be good if they had a chief of staff who lived through some investigations before. i think the person has to be a realist, its not all mai tais out here. they need to not be cynical. they need to understand its...

2016 inspite of his unpopularity because it was a choice between him and another historically unpopular candidate. given the choice between generic republicans in 2018 and another democrat in 2020, you could see a different result. >> its phes been able to push boundaries with republicans on capitol hill who have been reluctant to confront the president even with the bomb she sle shells that have come out so far. they have been reluctant to talk about impeachment because they know its a fools er...