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So i think it was a real slap in the face to the president, and ive never seen him in the past be able to absorb that kind of slight without lashing out. >> i want to play something that we heard from the president today about the house-passed funding bill that included money for the wall. watch this. >> we were told that you would never get the house to vote. well, we were able to get the house to vote, and it wasnt that we did it. they did it. they about incredible. so i want to thank in this ...

Whitaker as you say not confirmed, and now as if all of that isnt enough, hes lashing out at whitaker for not reining in the southern district of new york prosecutors with respect to letting michael cohen plead guilty to campaign finance violations that implicate. the president. you know, nobody can accuse the president of learning from his mistakes. it is -- you know, i think you can describe this as sort of an obstruction jamboree by president trump, and all of this, i think, is going to be of...

Influence, that he is trying to put on the investigation? and could that not be considered obstruction? >> absolutely, alec. whether he actually said the words, you know, stop this investigation, shut it down, is not really important. that doesnt dictate the results here. this to me is -- just based on what we already know a pretty clear raw blatant attempt at obstruction. whether it actually succeeded or not depends in part on what whitakers response was. did he go and try to talk to or talk to...

Reason he would get reelected. >> and by the way, how are your 401(k)s doing? not too bad, right? i think its going to be very hard for somebody to beat us in a few years. can you imagine now were only talking about a few years? all you have to say is with us it goes up, with them it goes down. and thats the end of the election. right? >> its over, folks. its over. now weve seen trump meltdowns before, plenty of them. but this feels different. it feels worse and it feels more serious primarily b...

No temperament to be president of the united states. they said but he fights. and here he is and hes doing his fighting, which is just sort of lashing out with any rhyme or reason and no strategy whatsoever and undercutting the party itself. and hes not getting whats done. i think the senate republicans pulled back and said, you broke your word with mitch mcconnell and b, youre going to have to fix it. i think it might be a tactical move on the part of republicans to say the base wants somebody ...

We had to what is looking like a government shutdown. what does nielsen think about the exit of defense secretary jim mattis, one of president trumps most trusted advisors? can the president find a defense secretary that agrees with his america first strategy but also has the traps to lead the pentagon? well begin without question. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." im shannon bream in washington. on one hot issue, the president heard the message from his base loud and clear. he now says h...

Have new money for the wall he was sending the opposite signal yesterday and his political base was lashing out at him for appearing to cave on a key immigration promise from 2016 so interesting overnight the president seemed to change the headline by mollifying his political base with an abrupt announcement that the us is pulling troops from syria which was another key promise in 2016 about not being the worlds policeman. the president is not getting kudos from his base for seeming to stand tal...

Doesnt control both houses of congress. and you have all of this and hes trying to exercise his power. hes trying to silence the critics in his own base, the ann coulters, the russia limbaughs who have been banging the drums all week about the wall. and he feels very boxed in and without a lot of options and hes lashing out. >> phil, as you know and youve pointed out, if the coulters and limbaughs carry the day, the government gets shutdown four days before christmas, the optics are bad. the rea...

What anyone else says because they might be gone tomorrow or might not reflect the whims of the president. >> tom, again, how extraordinary that a retiring secretary of defense has to explain to the commander-in-chief that russia is a geopolitical rival. >> theres two things that i think are really stunning here. one is, and this goes back to a point meika made earlier this morning. one is that both the mattis and the mcconnell reactions are basically saying its not that we disagree with your fo...

President in a divided washington where his party doesnt control both houses of congress. and you have all of this and hes trying to exercise his power. hes trying to silence the critics in his own base, the ann coulters, the russia limbaughs who have been banging the drums all week about the wall. and he feels very boxed in and without a lot of options and hes lashing out. >> phil, as you know and youve pointed out, if the coulters and limbaughs carry the day, the government gets shutdown four ...