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Is the southern border has been a place for commerce where day in, day out theres a lot of commerce that goes back and forth between the two countries with certainly goods going back and forth but also people who are working on both sides of the border and his claim is that by shutting that down, that would deny mexico the ability to make that money and he says the u.s. has always been on the short end in his view of the nafta free trade agreement which he, of course, has updated as a new versio...

Florida if there was a shutdown to this point. hes tweeting a bunch, and hes now saying im going to shut down the southern border altogether, which to most people sounds like a heck of an empty threat. >> i think its almost impossible to do given the economic realities. i think he just needs some leverage point and hes trying to keep the focus on the fact that the debate is about the border. and he does have the bully pulpit here. >> but isnt fake leverage no leverage? >> not here, not when youv...

President well before our own department of justice did, so while we look at what happened during the campaign, i think we also have to think about what impact it may have had on on-going russian policy when president trump got to the white house because again he knew that russia and vladimir putin was well aware of the lies which are a leverage point and bribery point well before our own government did. >> shan, the government supporters will say this didnt go anywhere because michael cohen did...

For lunch yesterday and mitch mcconnell, while i do not hang out with him on weekends, i tend to not bet against him. >> you dont get everything you wont. theres no leverage in a shutdown. especially for republicans. first, republicans, aim agreeing with elizabeth warren, theyre in charge, right. so the dleverage of a shutdown used to be who got the blame. shutdowns are meaningless. nobody notices them. >> local businesses in washington, they suffer. >> true, but i mean politically like as a poi...

Romaine lettuce, e-cigarettes, and drug prices. an interview you will only see here on "the daily briefing." ♪ >> harris: two days from now, house democrats will hold their leadership elections. nancy pelosi facing opposition, nine democrats on the moderate problem solvers caucus threatening to vote against her for a speaker if she doesnt back some proposed reform they say will discourage partisan gridlock in congress. power panel back, interesting. >> i think these people are smart for doing ...

See a lot of gridlock, too. everybody who complains about it but we have the foundations of gridlock when you have the divided congress. i think the senate will put the breaks on a lot of ideas. the democrats have every leverage point in the house in the first part of january but it will be tough sledding to get anything meaningful done. things that both sides should care about like balancing the budget and reducing the national debt. those types of things are going to be very difficult going fo...

Its who he was. divisive. angry. and ultimately victorious for him. joining us now director of domestic policy studies at stanford university and research professor. where do you want to begin? president trump apparently doesnt really have any problem with being in love with dictators, even when leslie stahl puts out in front of him what that means, the type of destruction and human indecency. how does it impact the united states on the world stage? >> i think the challenge, mika, is that the pr...

Help in coming to terms with north korea or criticizes china for not doing enough. the bottom line is china, by most people, is expected to be a pretty strong leverage point with north korea. >> correct. and we need chinas help with respect to north thats one of the reasons in the past we were -- the president was very effective with north korea. and now theres questions whether chinas even still imposing the sanctions it agreed to impose against north korea with the same vigor. and many people ...

With moving things around but until secretary of state mike pompeo in the administration have said until theres a verifiable denuclearization permanently which means we are going to have to go in and inspect the entire country quite frankly, then we will seem if they will yield results that are long-lasting. >> dagen: it wasnt long ago, just a matter of weeks ago that there were new satellite photos that showed that kim jong un regime is continuing to develop a nuclear weapons program, weve had ...

Creates additional leverage point and standing to keep an eye on this and see about the humanitarian part. >> could change the game. it could change what ultimately happens with these people. as we know right now, 2053 young kids are sitting in detention tonight in hhs custody. the questions before were where are the girls, where are the toddlers, those questions still apply. next question is where is everyone going next. >> we are indebted to your reporting. appreciate your legal handicapping o...