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Kushner with a wary eye and saying what is kushner talking about? nancy pelosi, this house speaker, is not going to let her members drift. the members are with pelosi. the white house keeps trying to poach democrats on the moderate side and invite them to the white house, the problem-solvers group, all of that. the democrats continue to hold firm. and the white house still believes the president somehow can get the democrats to bend and get a big deal to happen. but pelosi has -- the speaker has...

So enbeholden. president trump and the white house feel the other way around. if they show witness or looks like he can be pushed around, he loses his leverage in any future fight. >> the president is used to p paying attention at campaigns. this poll shows right now of disapproval poll. 63%, thats remarkable. >> is he seeing that or feeling that or does he care? >> hes singing it and he does care. hes picking out number that is looked better for him. the one hes tweeting lately is a number of -...

From? >> from talking to my republican senate colleagues. and i reject the notion -- youre right, the president thinks his leverage is hurting millions of people. i went to a pop up restaurant at 7th and pennsylvania halfway between congress and the white house where president employees were standing out side in the cold like a bread line from the depression, but were not in a depression. the stock market is great and the economy is good according to the white house so why are you punishing unif...

Is clear lly responsible for th continuing damage being done, because that doesnt accept anybodys arguments. it just says lets open the government for two weeks and use that space and try to come up with a permanent solution to end this madness. again, i cant answer any reason to be opposed to that other than people who want to continue to impose pain on the coast guard, want to continue to impose pain on folks throughout the federal government and throughout the country, because whiels would so...

Votes thursday afternoon, and the first vote will be on the presidents proposal he put on the table saturday. that will not pass in the form that its in unless it first goes to committee and we have a chance to discuss it and improve it by amendment. the second vote is going to be a vote to just re-open government until the 8th of february while we work on a proposal to see if we can find a compromise. the first vote is going to fail. theres a fighting chance to get that second vote to pass and ...

I want to read this as it relates to the shutdown. he creates or threatens to create a calamity and insists he will address the problem only if his adversary capitulates to a demand and he has described it as approach and creating leverage and negotiating but democrats and other poenopponen say hostage taking. >> do you think extortion is too strong of a word when you remove things and take them off the table and you demand your get your way and you say well ill put this in when youre the one th...

Scenes. >> the nepharious construction is he never says anything bad about vladimir putin. it doesnt matter what he does. donald trump never says a bad word against him. you can reach that conclusion. on the other hand, you can draw a more benign conclusion. theres more negotiations going on behind the scene and he doesnt perhaps want to mess them up although when have you ever heard him be careful about what he says in public? >> thats the only leverage that the u.s. government has in a case li...

Presidents proposal that he put on the table saturday. that will not help in the form that its in unless it goes to committee and we have a chance to discuss it and approve it by amendment. the second will be a vote to reopen government until the 8th of february while we work on the proposal to see if we can find a compromise. there is a fighting chance to get that to pass and then send the 15 days making amendments to improve it to a point and find a bipartisan compromise. >> it would be nice i...

There has to be a vote to welcome the president in the is one of the few pressure points that pelosi has where theyve been going back and forth. one thing i would say, john and alisyn, what i remember from the 2013 shutdown most clearly was having worked in house leadership at the time was republicans had 1/3 of 1/2 of government and for some reason we thought that we held leverage and all the cards. the reality is we didnt. and while i have sympathy for the democrats argument that we shouldnt h...

Right now. where does your optimism come from? >> from talking to my republic senate colleagues. you are right, if you talk to the real politics, the president thinks his leverage is hurting millions of people, and i went to lunch, and we are not in a depression. the stock market is great and the economy is good according to the white house, so why are you punishing uniformed law enforcement and making them stand in the cold to get a soup or sandwich. he thinks its leverage but the republican se...