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Ambassador to the u.n. pushing trump to take far right positions and keeping the border wall front and center. >> massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the american people. >> reporter: on trumps best days, his tv echo chamber cheers. and on his worst days, they sometimes just close their eyes or look in the opposite direction. just last week when james mattis resigned in protest, carlson led his show with a border wall monologue instead, mocking democrats. >> only dumb people belie...

>> well, youll have to ask michael cohen. michael is my -- an attorney, and youll have to ask michael cohen. >> do you know where he got the money to make that payment? >> i dont know, no. >> well, mueller did ask michael cohen. that was a big lie, though, that he didnt know. michael cohen told prosecutors he paid off stormy daniels and karen mcdougal on orders from trump. then the president in the run-up to the midterms announced that he was working on a 10% tax cut for the middle class. rememb...

>> who? >> mexico! >> whos going to pay for the wall? mexico. another lie just to rile up his base. mexico made it clear to trump its not paying for a wall. its former president used more graphic language that i cant repeat on this program. hes not going to pay for a you know what wall, he said. but heres one thing that is true tonight as we head into day eight of this shutdown. its time for americans to see those highly touted negotiating skills from the deal maker in chief and get the governme...

Deal-making. were right now in a position where right at this point in president obamas presidency, he made a deal right after he got shellacked in the 2010 midterms, he made a deal with republicans where he got repeal of dont ask/dont tell in exchange for what republicans wanted, which was an extension of the bush tax cuts. its not a shutdown situation, but here in this shutdown that were in right now, president trump has not done the same thing even though hes supposedly the great negotiator, ...

Caravan is forming in honduras, and they are doing nothing about it. he seemed to drop the caravan after the midterms, but you think he could effectively use it to lobby for a wall? >> i dont think so. i think everyone is kind of -- i think everyone is kind of hip to this game. you know, during the election, the midterm election, we kept hearing this caravan. the caravan was hundreds of miles away, and it was like, you know, it was imminent doom, like it was happening the next day, and it didnt ...

All of the immigrants in, he would do that. right, david? dont you think? >> don, yeah, if i could jump in there, to your point and to follow up on what april was just saying, look, the president does things and has been doing things to hold on to the 40% of the country thats with him. but politics is a game of addition, and he is not adding onto his coalition to where he has a majority of the country behind him. hes got 40%. the bottom has not fallen out on him. but he does nothing to expand on...