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As chief of staff is important here. they are saying, look, mr. president, you have to remember, you care about x, y, and z. you cant forget all of that together. lets hold out. the more we hold out -- by the way, the more there is a split between the president and his hardline staff, maybe he gets a better deal in the end. democrats are already moving on this idea of giving more wall funding in order to take care of the d.r.e.a.m.ers. >> what are the optics of the president giving the state of ...

President saying theyre trying to shut down the trump economy. one thing we dont see, though, in the tweet from the press secretary, don, is any mention of the republicans who also voted against this plan. the republicans, including senator lindsey graham and a few others, who also do not believe this is the way that business should be conducted in washington here. but we are getting a sense, as phil was saying, you know, to look for those signs from this president, we are getting a sense at lea...

Release a tweet. we know that he does at any time, whenever he wants to, and there could be a paper statement. but we will not hear from the president tonight in person. salena zito, i want to bring you back in here because were following this closely. people who are tuned in, zoned in, really interested in politics following this closely. i think many americans maybe more so following because theyre concerned about their government being shut down. how much do you think -- how closely do you th...

Yeah, thats how we got here in the first place. >> right. >> i think everyone was happily on track to avoid this, and then trump tweeting and those kinds of comments because he doesnt really understand how these things work, and he doesnt really care about how republicans look. he cares how he looks. so -- >> agreed. >> in this instance, this is whats making it so challenging. you saw mitch mcconnell say, look, let us know what you want because we dont know what you want. president, let us know,...

They said that he will not be speaking tonight. maybe there will be a paper statement. maybe a tweet. we dont know. but im sure the american people would like to know from their leader whats going on. how does he stand on this? lets bring in -- >> hey, don. >> is that scott? go ahead, scott. >> i just wanted to respond to brian real quick on the president. brian said they wont accept a three-week deal. they dont want this deal thats currently on the floor that passed the house by a big margin. t...

Of governing by base. the democratic party, they dont want to seem like theyre rolling again. they want to keep their base energized that worked so well in virginia and alabama. this is our politics today. donald trump is governing by base. its how do you get your supporters as riled up as possible. >> rebecca, i want to bring you in now. you have lots of sources in washington. are you hearing anything from them? >> absolutely, don. already were seeing unfolding the beginnings of the political b...

Both, and yet washington continues to play games here. >> that goes back to the point molly made a few minutes ago, about the idea its backward and confounding to americans when congress is on the brink of shutdown over issues that they more or less agree on, and where the public is going in one clear direction. i think that the point david made a second ago is key. president trump wants to -- david was right, that republicans need the president to go first, theyre unlikely to get that in any de...

Idea that when one side over the last however many years has been playing by the marquis of queensbury rules, the other side has been playing by ultimate fighting rules, thats the democrats and republicans, youre not going to be able to sit down at a table and hash out the fine deal points until both sides have a little bit of fear of the other side. even though democrats are risking some things for november by going this way, what they probably have decided here to do is say look, lets let manc...

Talking about pitting 9 million u.s. citizen children versus 700,000 noncitizen daca people. not to den great their status, and denigrate who they are and what they need. when a vote could be had tonight to fix the chip program, i dont see how democrats think theyre going to win that argument. you ask what mcconnells going to say? this man is a study in message discipline. hes going to continue to say all you have to do is vote yes. chip gets fixed, thats a simple message, and i think its going ...