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Steve: chapstick. brian: obviously the kennedy resemblance was there student under elizabeth warren. well delivered though, right? >> you know the difference john f. kennedy actually engaged in one of the largest take home pay tax cuts in american history. that is not this kennedy. as a matter of fact, john f. kennedy would be a republican today. that he was the irony of that speech. brian: i do want to bring us to the "the washington post" one of the stories on the front page the internal justi...

>> let me pick up on the point we are just hearing. is this deal you think something that immigration supporters can fundamentally accept because we will put up on screen for you what the deal generally says which is allow 1.8 million young immigrants to become citizens. $25 billion in spend awning border wall and security. restrictions on family-based immigration what is sometimes referred to as chain migration and an end to the visa lottery system. in a nutshell, is this too much for immigrant...

Hill, as well. the three or four investigations running in parallel. how confident are you that well see a resolution to those thats satisfactory? >> im not confident at all. what i was writing about a year and a half ago has happened. lets be clear -- the mueller investigation is not to provide prescriptions for enhancing american national security. it has to do with criminal behavior. and i, too, worked with robert mueller. i think as long as the presidential louse him to continue with -- pres...

Day. so lets discuss this. first, in terms of the legalities of this, counselor, am i right, if they wanted to declassify this, the executive branch, the president, is has ultimate power of classifying and declassifying. and congress members have immunity for any speech or debate on the floor of congress so they can go on there and read the memo and put whatever they want into the congressional record. carr carrie, thats you. >> sure. got it. certainly the president is the ultimate classificatio...

He thought he would pull the wool over the presidents eyes. doesnt he understand the president understands how government works and he has a smart director who understands the difference between authorization and appropriation. appropriation means the funds are there and used for that purpose. he has no authority to make the kind of pledge he did to the president. so he did that in bad faith. so what is he really doing? he is saying everything is off the table and we have to start from scratch. ...

Democrats in senate gain by shutting the government down by three days, but then agreeing to open it for what they consider to be not much. what did you gain? >> first of all, john, lets be clear. it was the total incompetence of president trump and the dysfunction as white house that led to the shutdown in the first place. as senator lindsey graham said, there are unreliable negotiating partners they got us into this mess and then did nothing, nothing to get us out. what got us out was bipartis...

Insurance. is that true, and what about daca? >> im not -- a couple different things, im not familiar with the specific deal. i know its on the table right now which is a four-week. i have heard about the three weeks. i know that theres a separate disaster supplemental sitting bill in the senate, i have not heard about the two things getting married together. you may want to ask senator about that. the fact of the matter is we probably need at least three weeks to try to negotiate daca, lets be ...

Something to come with, so the government doesnt shut down? >> you first, brian. >> i dont know, you heard phil report that mcconnell is cooking up another cynical ploy of trying to expose democratic senators from trump won states to as many show boats over the next 90 minutes as possible. maybe youll see something where he offers a three-week continuing resolution or two-week continuing resolution. let me respond to two things scott said before you went to phil. he said democrats should want to...

Of things, logic is not even making sense at this point. hes against the cr, he thinks that would be worse than, you know, than a shutdown for the military. i mean, thats just nonsensical and nonstarter. they have to get the government back open an get back to the process that they were talking about before principles that they were discussing. thats a big if right now. kelly: thats a big if, indeed. >> look, here is the reality, the republicans have brought the situation entirely upon themselve...

>> right. in this interview with senator graham i want to bring in something else he said. so being incredibly critical of the president. been very flip flopping. but asked about whether the president was racist given the whole s hole controversy. he said hes not a racist. >> why dont you ask me is he a racist? >> that was my next question. >> absolutely not. you could be drk as chocolate, lilly white, it doesnt matter. its not the color of your skin that matters or content of your character its...