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Finding out, when they took control of the house was that they would use the debt limit, which is important to be extended for our united states to be used as a leverage point against this president for all of the things that he is doing. regulatory lay, building a wall, so this deal that secretary mnuchin did it with schumer and nancy pelosi extends the deadline and ensures that nancy pelosi surrenders her arms, surrenders her only ability, her leverage point, to have what we call legislative a...

Immigration side that need to be addressed. >> dana: probably not going to be called up in the senate for a vote? >> i did ask him would he take up the act? he said probably not. he said it would have to be paired with some enforcement mechanism or increased border security which democrats in the house havent done. i was critical a little bit of the presidents policy on his fix on immigration, or what hes trying to use as a leverage point. i think its worth pointing out here also, dana. i suppor...

Negotiations because he thought he could renegotiate things with china. that slows that down. it begs the question what will the president do if hes not going to have the face-to-face meetings with the chinese leader. and it begs the question what will happen outside of the area. china has been a leverage point to get north korea to the table. theres always things happening, china exerts leverage over north korea. you cant silo off of any these relationships. if you have a slowdown, a fullback, ...

Proposals. the president has offered nothing new. and now the supreme court has taken one leverage point, daca, off the table, theyre now protected, thats a good thing. so, you know, the republicans have got to figure out that theyre going to have to override this president. in the long run it will be a good thing for this congress to check the president, reopen the government and then move forward. they should set up a six-month escrow account for federal workers so in a future shutdown it woul...

>> you know it? i think that the markets are waiting for this piece of uncertainty to go away, and the fact that we are now getting some tidbits of where the conversations may be is empowering some people to think okay, maybe we will get a deal sooner rather than later, but lets not forget, these are really big issues, as we have discussed. we are talking about the transfer of technology, espionage. you know, we know what has gone on. so i dont know that these issues are going to be so easy to r...

A great deal of pain. i looked at the polls. its clear. all of the polls indicate that the majority blame the president for what is going on. people dont like shutdowns. dont like shutting down the government as a leverage point for the wall that mexico was going to pay for. they think we should be able to reach a deal. it would be nice if people sat down and thought about this and were able to negotiate. you have a situation where you had republicans and democrats make a deal. mcconnell said he...

For words here because we all know this claim that the president made over and over again throughout his campaign that mexico would pay for the wall and now hes sort of walking that back and saying it wasnt a direct payment that they would be making, it would be made for trade. whatever hes saying. do you think his base is buying this? >> reporter: 100% walking it back. 100%. no. you know when you talk to republican lawmakers up there on capitol hill, even during the campaign we would ask, repor...

Clear to the president. >> ron, i want to read for you a quote from the presidents own book the "art of the deal." the worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it. that makes the other guy smell blood and then youre dead. the best thing you can do is deal from strength and leverage. that is the biggest strength you can have. help me understand, where is his leverage point right now? >> i dont think he has much. the one is to declare a national emergency which could be ...

To make that argument. the president in his letter to congress also says that walls work, and thats why so many rich and successful people build them around their homes. he also argues that israel uses them with, quote, 99% effectiveness. so this is a critical moment where now nancy pelosi comes in as speaker. the white house had been positioning a lot of criticism towards pelosi prior to her taking the oath as speaker saying she wouldnt be ready to make a deal. so far her public comments leadin...

Shutdown a short time ago, saying that hes basically there at the white house waiting for this deal. >> as you explained, frances, not in florida which was part of his holiday plan. that on hold with the shutdown. the president saying he is here and urging democrats to come on over. now, we dont know if thats meant to be an actual invitation or just some of the kind of twitter speak weve come to see with president trump who is clearly trying to position this gap in the negotiations, this sort of...