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Thats saved this situation. thats his own selling of whats been transpiring. every north korea expert has said unless you get to the point where you have an itemization of the nuclear resources and plan to let inspectors anded adjudice whats still going on, you dont have anything. building goodwill is an important thing, but the president is trying to play up what he has, which is not what matters at this point. the question of if he can get to what matters really is maybe not dependent only on ...

The clinton, monica lewinsky case. the fact that comey and sessions have been questioned and plan to question bannon by the end of the month. >> i think it may be an indication that things are wrapping up for the heart of the investigation. but its very speculative at this point. very difficult to say. >> tough to say. maybe wrapping up. of course, the big fish at the end of this, presumably, is the president of the united states. we know that the presidents lawyers will likely push for, weve he...

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Money to fund the government? republicans are coming to the conclusion that theyll figure out a way to do that. even thats not a given. republicans have had it with spending. they feel theyre going to use these leverage points, even ones that really could have, i think, a catastrophic effect on the economy. theyre willing to use those to jam their agenda through. they feel like theyre getting nothing. >> they want to hear about immigration reform? you dont think there is any chance on that? >> i...

Going to expire at the end of march. so again, republicans and they did this in early 2011 a couple of times. republicans could walk up to the line to shut the government down for a few days if the demand arent met and tried in it 1995. these are the leverage points, none of this is healthy for governance but talking about using the debt ceiling for leverage, youre talking about completely and totally changing the basic norms of how congressional parties behave and flirting with economic catastr...

For $1 trillion in increasing the debt ceiling and so that is our next leverage point. it is a shame that in this nation where every developed country in the world knows that our greatest threat is our fiscal solvency that you have to have the leverage points. you would think that people would just sit down, solve the problem because we know it is our greatest threat. but that is not the case here. we have a president who has not laid out a plan. obviously a spend-aholic. he doesnt really worry ...