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Relationship with it, will they cut them from the funding that has been crucial for the afghan state to keep going? the international community, western nations, saying that that funding is contingent on the taliban fulfilling promises like allowing those who want to leave to leave and adopting international human roigts standards. we will to see how much they will listen and how much they need to apiece their hard line base. a time of deep uncertainty at the moment. ~ :. a time of deep uncertai...

From the president. we see this over and over. not just on racial matters but on other matters. is this a brilliant strategy or some sort of political genius we dont see? indications are no. its not even a stratstrategy. then you have people in the white house trying to retrofit a strategy to it. there might be something in their numbers that suggest they might be able to gin up some more hard-line base votes but theres no indication whatsoever that that would work and theres not any reporting o...

Compromise shy of a wall. would that satisfy the hard-line base, you mentioned the commentators that he so closely listens to. does he need a bona fide wall? >> well, this is the big question if you like between the two parties. and how they are perceived among their supporters. each one is now fixated on either a fence or a wall. if you look at it, both are fairly strongly agreed there needs to be greater levels of border security, but want for political purposes either to get a wall or not gra...

President. does he begin to not necessarily discard everything his base is telling him, but consider the mainstream majority of the country and that in the improved economy could benefit the president? >> i think thats true. i think most of of his base, while some of the hard-line base are upset. i think most of of the base voted for donald trump because they believe in donald trump. what trump may be able to do is expand the base by showing hes able to come to agreement. his numbers are not ver...

Lets call his visit aspirational, and in plain english, a lot of these folks are guys who wouldnt let him in the club as a businessman. >> thats exactly right, but this is a perfect foil, in a sense, for the white house. they can go to davos and wag a finger at some people they perceive as enemies on trade or enemies of the presidents political agenda and you can almost predict exactly how this is going to play out. hell mingle to an extent but make sure he reassures his hard line base back home...

Im not quite sure the greeting will be as warm in this meeting of globalists in davos for the american first president. >> first of all, on davos, the trip could be fraught. lets call his visit aspirational, and in plain english, a lot of these folks are guys who wouldnt let him in the club as a businessman. >> thats exactly right, but this is a perfect foil, in a sense, for the white house. they can go to davos and wag a finger at some people they perceive as enemies on trade or enemies of the ...

Tip toes afraid to alienate the hard line base of the party that doesnt want immigration reform. there are a certain number of republicans, particularly those whom you might call finance republicans who are for comprehensive immigration reform and waiting for a candidate to step forward to make the argument for why a hard line on immigrants is not the right way for the country to go. if we get that debate jose it actually could, as you suggest, it could be something positive for the country that...

While the rest of the field battled it out, there was a missing cast member on stage. john huntsman was 2600 miles away and holding a town hall in new hampshire. she hasnt officially endorsed, she is a huntsman fan. did he make the right call by not going? >> by looking at the debate he absolutely did. the evaporates can vote in the primary and his appeal is to those independents and not the hard line base of the republican party. if he comes out well in new hampshire, he is a credible candidate...