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He leaped into. >> this is my last question for you, the fact that you have jay z sitting in a studio with van jones talking about trump. trump, ping, tweets about it in a critical way, in a way of boosting his own black unemployment numbers. you look at someone like eminem, white rapper, really took the president down in that video from the b.e.t. awards and crickets. whats up with that? >> it doesnt work. it doesnt work for the president politically. there are a lot of people who criticized ob...

Did he leave these members, did he hang them out to dry? >> he miss calculate ed in this. the american people want their government to stay open. the american people overwhelmingly support dreamers and want them to stay, but they also want their government to just stay open and function. it just doesnt work, shutting down the government as a hostage to try and get your issue fixed. it doesnt work. the american people never embraced that strategy. weve gone through it three times now and the part...

Well -- im not supporting a wall. i never did. i dont understand why nobody on his transition team nobody on his campaign, nobody who hes affiliated with told him theres a process in place at one point called sbi net. a security border initiative. it was a partially a physical wall and electronic wall. i worked on the homeland security committee. i watched it fail. this was hearing after hearing on why this didnt work. it cost the government millions of dollars. obama pulled the plug on this pro...

It doesnt work. the reality of what needs to happen in this country is there needs to be a different type of wall built. that wall needs to be built to find us and release us from bigotry and ignorance. we cant create false bordering and systems to keep people out of in country when theyre trying to come here to make a better life for themselves. thats the bottom line. im not saying we dont need immigration policy. what i am saying to you. >> we do need border security though. >> we can have bor...

If it doesnt work, do what you have to do in repealing it. going down to 21%, could we have stopped at 25% permanently at 25% and waiting three years, see if the gdp kept growing, see if the debt started going down. then here, of all that being said, thats how i made my decision as a no vote. im a democrat willing to work anyway i can. theres going to be a lot of repairs needed and ill be there to help make them. im not going to say i told you so. >> neil: and goldman sachs, a hillary supporter,...

And manchin as well. what was accomplished was unclear. the white house said it really was on immigration. the interesting point is that that manchin, senators manchin and jones really havent been on the forefront of the immigration issue. so its sort of unclear what was accomplished. but what is clear here, don, is the white house wanted to send a message here today now that the governments reopening that theyre willing to talk about immigration to get a deal done. >> okay. so dana, i think you...

Issue. it is sort of unclear. what is clear here is that the white house wanted to send a message now that the government is reopening they are willing to talk about immigration to get a deal done. >> so i think you and pamela mentioned that the president maybe it was better that the president didnt get involved because he might muck it up. was the president intentionally muzzled over the weekend? did it ultimately help to get a deal? was this probably the best thing for him not to get involved ...

This up. under ford and carter and reagan, the shut downs were very short. a week or a few days and they didnt have furloughs. they didnt have major consequences for the most part. it changed under bill clinton dealing with the republican congress. thats when it became sometimes a month long with massive furloughs and terrible political division and that continued really to the present day. theres been four like that. have we learned one thing from this, neil, and these shut downs since bill cli...

Thats why we laid out what we called our four priorities and listed that as one of them. >> a daca fix is on the same level playing field as the wall? >> we know thats going to be part of this negotiation. we dont want to do that without the other three components. its like having a stool with two legs. it doesnt work very well. we want to make sure were addressing this more fully and in a responsible way so were not just kicking the can down the road but dealing with the issue longer term. >> w...

Go up and you have new opportunities and standard of living. these guys think by crushing the american people they have have a good fiscal situation. fact of the matter is, debt goes up badly when you have a stagnant economy or when youre fighting a war. ronald reagan increased the defense budget, he won the cold war and they were able to cut the defense budget. so good things come when you have prosperity. kennedy recognized it, ronald reagan recognized it. donald trump recognizes it and govern...