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Of accountants and legal counsel, all of which to try to provide advice to give him the distance, essentially, one area removed from being able the say that here was my specific intent, here was my directive. it makes it a more challenging, not impossible, case. you look for people like, a, a weisselberg who can provide information about the intent of the person who might be your larger target. weissleberg already is a pretty large target. if he werent attached to former president trump, the hea...

Taliban. our next guest says its a dire reminder we are still in danger. here to explain major general malcolm frost. general, when it comes to afghanistan, how do you think the taliban are interpreting the cancellation of those talks and where we are at in the war on terror. >> i think the taliban took this as kind of a public slight, disrespect. i think that they wanted to demonstrate that they are still a real and present threat hence the attack against the embassy in kabul. its also a strate...

Fruit and working. tease that out for us. >> thats my view. the purpose of the maximum pressure campaign was to get a better nuclear deal. my own view was the previous deal was better than no deal, but now that were out, we might as well keep this pressure on and the reason i think its working is you see a couple of things, you see reporting that the iranian leadership has made a decision its going to have to negotiation with the trump administration number one and then number two, you see iran ...

Deal. theyre tuurging tehran to stic with the terms of the agreement that president trump pulled out of two years ago. meanwhile the chinese foreign ministry seem to be blaming the u.s. security analyst mike rogers joins me now. congressman, always good to have you on the show. >> thanks, jim. >> i know the presidents dissatisfaction with the iran deal. you and others have made criticisms about it, but the fact is iran was in a deal that limited its ability, really held back its ability to make ...

Exactly when the speaker will make her move. she certainly indicated after meeting with justin trudeau, the canadian prime minister, that they had some very productive conversations and it looked like a possibility. i just think we know. we do know about nancy pelosi as she will with until that moment where she can do some of that leveraging with her far left people on issues like impeachment. i think all these things hold together with her. i think its all leverage points. >> guy: but does she ...

Nancy and her big donors in wine country that people working on farms, grapes, will have easy access in? talks have completely broken down and 800,000 people who arent getting paid, many of whom are saying please dont make me a pawn, are exactly that. >> we can drop that at this point. talks have broken down. there is nothing happening between the major parties on here. i hate to sound so bleak about this. this is the reality where we are. the two parties are not speaking to each other. you had ...

And bored ader securities. to my friends on the republican side, theres going to be some things that the democrats want. >> so the democrats say we did offer a compromise, $1.3 billion in border security, theres our compromi compromise. wheres yours, white house? >> you have to ask the white house there. look, ive worked the border. there has to be some wall in other areas. it doesnt have to be sea to shining sea, and then there has to be technology. regardless of what you think is being argued ...

Democrats, youre the problem because the problem is its everybodys fault. this was started years ago where we start using these stupid shutdown leverage points to try to get our way because we cant give the other side any kind of a win. if we -- i get that theres issues that are like the holy grail out here and fight for those. but there are also issues that are real easy to solve and immigration is one of them. but were stuck here with we cant give the other side a win because it will help us i...

Point out this could last a very long time. the president has since changed his view in a video that was tweeted out earlier this evening. the president said i hope that this shutdown will not last long, but right now nobody knows how you get to a solution on this. again, somebodys got to back off one of their demands. right now signs point to the president needing to do that given where the leverage points are. well see how this goes over the next couple of days. logistically, and you know this...

Has been funded. this is not going to affect veterans. this is not going to affect our military. its not going to affect health and human services. the leverage points are different here and what this comes down to his democrats and even republicans want to put their own constituents, their own tax payers come in the u.s. about the interest of illegal aliens. leland: is that a yes or no? >> absolutely. there is no better time than to show the country and to show the world that we are a country o...