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That. i think theyre waiting, probably playing, that the president doesnt screw it up again. >> politics aside, i sort of tried to explain whats in this deal compared to the last time. if you dont follow this very closely, its unclear as to who this is a win for and whether this goes any distance towards actually fixing whats broken with our immigration system. ways yo whats your take? >> 50 miles of a fence is not going to fix the problem. lets focus on whos winning and losing here. ive been re...

>> all right, rebecca buck, thank you so much. lets look at the race for 2020. joining me, boston globe political reporter liz goodwin, david swerdlick, and bureau chief for sun times, lynn sweet. lets focus on elizabeth warren. within the hour she will be making the announcement officially. less than a year until the iowa caucuses. how will elizabeth warren stand out from the very crowded democratic field. yes, she has name recognition, has been in the news a lot, particularly because of the ...

Very comfortable with the idea of saying to the president, not a dollar for the border wall ever. so is that your position right now as the 17 bipartisan members of both chambers get together and try to hammer out a deal? you dont want any money for any new border barrier? >> we all go into this negotiation with our own point of view recognizing there will have to be compromise in order to get to yes. so my view all along has been, if were going to go big, and make significant investments in bor...

What was the breaking point for the president to agree to end this shutdown with no wall guarantee. >> well, there were several different factor, for one, the president was watching his disapproval numbers climb, poll number force him were sliding. secondly on thursday he got a call from mitch mcconnell according to a source who says the senate majority leader told the president he was unsure how much longer he could hold republicans together on this issue. some in the gop became frustrated by w...

Plate. we know that donald trump may go in the wrong direction on that and not help the situation at all. >> lets be fair. the president has a lot on his plate but weighs going after jeff baseos a little bit. he was tweeting about a lot of stuff this weekend but no comment from the president of the united states on a sitting republican congressman endorsing white nationalism. i mean, as a republican, how does that make you feel? >> well, its a terrible situation. and one of the things that we kn...

And allow families to have even more security. lets focus on also getting our fiscal house in order. we helped rebuild the military working with the president last year. the troops are about to get an important well-earned pay raise. lets focus on getting the budget balanced again and lets talk about infrastructure, theres a lot of issues we can work on in the new year. democrats have to be willing to work with the president. of youve seen a lot of focus on what theyre going to do with what the ...

More security. lets focus on also getting our fiscal house in order. we helped rebuild the military working with the president last year. the troops are about to get an important well-earned pay raise. lets focus on getting the budget balanced again and lets talk about infrastructure, theres a lot of issues we can work on in the new year. democrats have to be willing to work with the president. of youve seen a lot of focus on what theyre going to do with what the president calls presidential har...

>> no. thats a bunch of bullshit. pardon my french. thats an absolute lie. >>y that didnt happen? >> that is a complete, absolute lie. i was there talking to the prime minister of iraq and he said how many soldiers are you talking about. obama wanted to get to zero. he got to zero. october 21, 2011, i said i hope the president is right and im wrong but i fear this decision will come back to haunt us. isis came as a result to withdraw from iraq. the caliphate was discovered in syria -- >> lets fo...

President trump bear responsibility? >> number one, everything were dealing with today falls on obamas watch. he is the one who withdrew from iraq. in 2011 -- >> he did it because there was -- that was the forces agreement in iraq, right? >> no. thats a bunch of bulls hichlt t. pardon my french. thats an absolute lie. obama wanted to get to zero. he got to zero. 2011 i said i hope the president is right but i fear this decision will come back to haunt us. isis came as a result to withdraw from i...

More security. lets focus on also getting our fiscal house in order. we helped rebuild the military working with the president last year. the troops are about to get an important well-earned pay raise. lets focus on getting the budget balanced again and lets talk about infrastructure, theres a lot of issues we can work on in the new year. democrats have to be willing to work with the president. of youve seen a lot of focus on what theyre going to do with what the president calls presidential har...