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Meadows and a number of members of the house freedom kocaucus w have been dissatisfied with the $1.375 billion spending bill passed. they were the catalyst for what led to the government shutdown for 35 days. now, i think hes making a case there. obviously theres going to be a ton of democratic pushback. im not sure that republicans could have gotten a much better deal for the border wall given the loss to the house. they lost a lot of their leverage. >> did you see this narrative being part of ...

Trying to think of other examples. the only one i can think of is in ronald reagans presidency, the chief of staff got a memo basically saying the president was very distracted, they werent sure he was mentally up to it. baker observed him for a day on the job without telling him and concluded nothing to this, were not going to go forward with this. to have the subject raised with the president, theres been reporting about this before, about this extraordinary thing. >> it shows you the national...

Some misleading facts about the border wall even as you mentioned he undercut the leverage he might have in court by suggesting this is not a national in which at all, this is voluntary. something he did not have to do, but he chose to do after lawmakers did not come close to giving him $5.7 billion that lawmakers did not give him for his wall. he was facing pressure from both sides of the aisle to sign a spending package that lawmakers in congress put together for him. they provided $1.375 bill...

Constitution with this move and setting a bad precedent that will be abused by possibly democratic presidents in the future, marco rubio -- >> well, not too many people -- yeah. not too many people have said that. >> wrong. mcconnell reportedly begged him not to do this. rubio said a future president may use this exact same tactic to impose a green new deal. senator rand paul tweeted this. extra-constitutional executive actions are wrong no matter which party does them. the real problem is that ...

>> mr. president, what do you say to those including some of your republican allies who say that are you violating the constitution with this move and setting a bad precedent that will be abused by possibly democratic presidents in the future, marco rubio -- >> well, not too many people -- yeah. not too many people have said that. >> wrong. mcconnell reportedly begged him not to do this. rubio said a future president may use this exact same tactic to impose a green new deal. senator rand paul tw...

Significance of any discozes that did take place but it was raised in some context at some point. the only thing i can think about is in the second term of ronald regans presidency, the chief of staff got a memo sawing they werent sure he was to it. baker observed him on the job and concluded were not going to go forward with this. but to evilen have the subject raise would the president, pretty extraordinary thing. >> it tells you the extent that the president had been compromised. the russian ...

Documenting as david said a lot of things we know. from davids point of view. to what was the right place to get to. not the 25th amendment but the mueller investigation which took it out of the hand of the fbi. it was the right thing to get it to mueller. in that sense, mccabe did the right thing. >> but youre going so far as to saying mccabe is just lying and making this up, that the conversation never happenede eh. this seems crazy that somebody b would just make it up when "the new york time...

On fox are no longer there. >> right. >> or if theyre still working there, you hardly ever see them. the whole entire network became the trump network because of donald trump. so why does he now feel like theyre in charge of him? i really cant follow the reasoning. >> max, do you agree with that? >> this would be a fascinating experiment. what it points to is the power that rupert murdoch potentially has, because we dont know what would happen. what if fox news actually turned on donald trump? t...

Far from certain because fox news has a very devoted base of their own. so if they turned against them, that could actually imperil his presidency. and clearly he thinks that fox news has leverage because he is very, very eager to propitiate fox news. and that would be fascinating, what would happen if murdoch were actually to turn on him, which i dont necessarily think is going to happen. but if it did, fascinating thought experiment. what would the fallout be? >> max boot, thank you kirsten po...

Instead of trusting u.s. intelligence, what could happen? >> he might declare that he has ended the nuclear threat, that north korea has made a solid commitment which might take away the leverage needed to have monitoring and verification to prove that north korea is giving up nuclear weapons. >> its for that reason that analysts believe mike pompeo and other leaders under president trump is looking at as many specific agreements as they can making specific deals with north korea before the summ...