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Here and i dont necessarily believe its difficult for a prosecutor to prove the allegations contain therein. >> youre right that he is facing almost certain conviction if the outline is accurate. there is an article in "news week" this morning. john brennan said this. do you see more indictments coming and who do you see could be targeted? i mean, when he says people we already know is he talking about donald trump jr.? >> i always hate to speculate as to what the special counsel is doing. i don...

At if i understand this particulars of the australian case, the former chinese immigrant that became or lives in astray that was flying back to china and he was intercepted and the minister of defense from australia was there coincidentally so a strong response to an austrian immigrant of chinese descent. i think china is trying to put pressure and leverage on this particular area of influence and also try to divide australia from other like-minded nations and with the rule of law and internatio...

Is this something we could see happen, at least the never have a shutdown act >> kevin mccarthy is a good man. but that seems to me to be a gimmick. the most important thing is we never hold hostage hard working public servants. >> do you want to legislate that >> we should take a hard look at making sure we dont pursue shutdowns as a means of trying to extract leverage, whether thats a democratic president or republican president >> let me go back on what i was trying to get at the republicans ...

Group of lawmakers, theyre there, negotiating a deal before the new february 15th deadline the presidents long promised border wall remain as sticking point. the white house says trump is prepared to shut down the government again, but republican lawmakers are advising against this >> is the president really prepared to shut down the government again in three weeks? >> yeah. i think he actually is keep in mind hes willing to do whatever it takes to secure the border. >> hopefully it teaches ever...

President trump is staking his reputation with his base on immigration. he is hinting he could declare a national emergency if theres no deal for wall funding in three weeks. if this week taught us anything, its that the art of the deal president may need to adjust his expectations the last time congress was close to a bipartisan immigration deal was 2013 the so-called gang of eight tried an failed to get it done two republicans who were in that gang still remain in the senate. lindsey graham, w...

President loves watching, might be one of the presidents favorites, he had critical words to say as well and so the president while hes dealing with the legal pressures from the mueller investigation, is also dealing with a serious political problem at this hour over his decision to reopen the government and give up his leverage in pursuit of that wall funding. >> joyce vance, its really hard to see over the shoulder of a good card player and see as they peek at what theyve got in their hand mue...

Are extremely high. >> the one thing he cant do is run another shutdown. >> well, its trump, i dont know. >> its trump. its true. in some ways it would be a test of how abjectly pathetic mitch mcconnell is if you let him do that buzz he talks about no education. second kick of the donky this would be the third. am i right that they dont have any leverage in another shutdown >> no, theres no more leverage. i think the country set its benchmark for the toleration here i think the idea of the next ...

Away in your reporting is there any chance that democrats will suddenly wake up one morning and decide they want to give donald trump a doumt on what could be $50 billion, $70 million, whatever for a wall. >> he already caved. why would they now they know he has no leverage they hold all of the cards the reason it worked is democrats stayed unified republicans did not. republicans, we saw the first cracks in their unity last week. six senate republicans voted with democrats to re-open the govern...

They have all the leverage mitch mcconnell was chewed out last week at a meeting by senate republicans saying, you got us into this. its not the president that decides what the public perception is. its the public. the public was upset blaming republicans for it not democrats. of course it means democrats have all the leverage. >> the way schoolhouse rock taught us that politics works is if you want something. if you want appropriation, the house of representatives would have to pass it. the hou...

Explanation. the democrats have leverage, that means i cant do what i want, im going to do all i can. >> thats a reasonable explanation when you have divided government. what you dont want to have is a complete and total loss where you get nothing on border security. i certainly hope thats not the case. its not just a political loser, but its a policy loser for america. >> we have some breaking news out of louisiana, five people are dead and the hunt is on for the suspected gunman. a live update...