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He is the minority leader. >> majority. >> your wishes got ahead of you. he >> he is not a powerless actor. i would be questioning if he has your interest in mind. >> this is why we will not be back in three weeks because you noi now have a republican conference that is not going to say okay. lets go back and do another shutdown. i think trump has no leverage and he passed what the senate passed two days before the shutdown began. okay. everyone stick around. we have another big story today, w...

1.6 billion if he agreed to the legislation that would have passed before the shutdown. >> for border security. >> he lost a critical amount of leverage. he knows what his paying points are. i think he lost -- one of the bigger problems going forward, he may have lost the faith of some of his strongest supporters previously. that doesnt give him any additional leverage going forward. >> this morning we saw more dire response for the 800,000 employees and the contractors its been awful. he releas...

Presidents leverage with the lawmakers and those in his on party, and you know how some voted against him on the senate side. not enough, but more. and most importantly the base, and this is more importantly so make it easy, not paying the people who need to be paid hurts those people. they dont want to be hurt for your wall. they are not okay with it. you are hurting them. you are hurting our safety, our economy. and any chance of ever working with the other side. the game is over. you cannot w...

Wing of that party and she has to keep them satisfied if shes wants to stay in her position. so thats politically difficult for her. i dont think theres a lot of leverage, not a lot that she gains from giving in to the president on this. >> so if she doesnt give in, we go to the presidents next threat, which is hes going to declare a emergency on the border and im going to take any $5.7 billion from military funding and it will immediately be enjoined by the courts. legal experts have pointed ou...

An explosive new report shows another norm obliterated by the white house. jared kushners application for a top secret laerclearance was rejected by to specialist after an fbi background check ruled there was potential outside influence on him. he was one of 30 cases where this super visor overruled security experts, something almost unheard of in the pre-trump era. >> generally if there are concerns that a foreign power might have leverage over you. you can think of a lot of things like meeting...

Constituents wanted. he had no leverage to begin with and that means that republicans dont have a lot of leverage going into this three week trying to figure out borger security. i agree that nancy pelosi is in a more difficult spot than she was while trump owns this entire debacle, but i dont think that congressional republicans have a great deal date to go with this eerd. >> when is the republican pry pair date? that is when they they have a challenge nap is a whole year. the truth of the matt...

So the question is really who can keep together their conferences for the longest amount of time. right now the republicans showing a little more signs of fracturing than the democrats. >> cory guardner up fo nerguard re-election in colorado. and the author of the shutdown, newt gingrich, telling "usa today" you either design a deal that gets you democrats or you dont. if you are trying to attract people with suing are are a, yo rob portman about the leverage that the president thinks he has by ...

Before the back and forth of the letters today. youll recall that initial letter in which she urged the president to delay of the "state of the union" until after the shutdown. she first cited security concerns but then the president came back and the department of homeland security said they could secure the "state of the union" perfectly fine. she then said it was really about furloughed employees and the fact theyre not getting paid, its not fair for them to be forced to secure such an event ...

The democrats proposal has no money for the wall. and there are signs of fracture within the gop. cory gardner of colorado is expected to vote for the clean bill that does not include border wall funding. and ohio senator rob portman also has concerns about the presidents strategy. >> i never believed that shutting down government provided leverage. i think it is a bad idea. the taxpayer ends up losing. families of workers end up losing. the economy gets hit. so it really doesnt make sense. >> $...

The real issue at hand and what eventually could break the impasse. >> this doesnt affect the 800,000 people who are going to go without a second paycheck tomorrow, this is window dressing someone level, though important window dressing obviously for the country. but what do you hear in the fact that the president is the person who conceded this point? >> i think it was just a concession to reality. i think theyre looking very closely at the numbers and when the president falls below 39, 38% in ...