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Rob: protections for the dreamers on the line. donald trump offering a 3-year extension to safeguard daca but democrats refusing to negotiate with his pitch. with 800,000 dreamers, are democrats in danger of dividing their base over their refusal to fund the wall and give them a 3-year extension. here to debate is role have a large and executive director of the conservative hispanic society. thanks for coming on, the supreme court made a big decision that hurt the president and his leverage scho...

For beneficiaries. >> certain aspects of amnesty process. he offered something important to them. the question we have to ask ourselves is if they are serious about negotiating, lets from the government through february 8th, they should be serious now. heather: should they negotiate with them, does he was any type of -- >> the leverage is all political. both sides are testing their bases and testing the middle. they dont want a toxic effect on the 2020 election. everybody is monitoring politics....

Addressed. the drug issue is real. its crystal meth, heroin coming across the mexican border. we have issues with human trafficking, women and children being trafficked. so theres a crisis on the border. i dont think you can avoid saying that. we now have a proposal that is a reasonable proposal. do democrats have changes theyd like to make? yes. lets make them. the president would be okay with that. in the meantime, lets do open government. this is where we talked about this before. i never bel...

To say maybe we should think about this, the top of the food chain over there isnt going to go for it. >> shes using the leverage that she has. chris, after you were on the show earlier, senator roy blunt was on. both parties say they feel like theyre winning and both feel like theyre losing. given that, if that is true, do we think well have a chance to get this solved before the end of the month? the workers are going to miss another paycheck friday. >> yeah, the real economic consequences for...

Its uncertain and could be violent, shepard. >> shepard: the united states haas been backing this new man who has come forward now. ostensively the opposition leader. what is the u.s. leverage with canada and others? >> the trump administration has said two things, which i think deserve a lot of attention. first, that nothing is off the table. second, that they will hold the maduro government responsible for any actions against the venezuelan people. so if they do round up the leadership, if the...

Burning both to the ground. it strikes me you could also insert paul ryan into those same mentions and have the very same paragraph written. question to you is how much leverage jonathan correctly reports hes off the bench, how much leverage does mcconnell have in this right now? >> he really doesnt have very much leverage. in december mcconnell and the senate unanimously passed a bill that would keep the government funded at the current levels, and if you remember that got sent over to the hous...

Using this as leverage for possible future threats to shut down the government. you have within your own democratic caucus, representative colin perkins of minnesota -- peterson, excuse me, of minnesota, who said give trump the money or put strings on that? are democrats thinking of going down the road to give strings you cannot in future leverage workers or shut down the government in order to get your way? what does that say about potential cracks in the democrats wall to stop republicans effo...

Time trump speaks bouts it, it gets less likely hes going to get what he wants. at this point the motivation for the democrats to compromise is zero. theyve offered nothing of substance and stopping on the don from doing this has become something that democratic base will not tolerate. paying for this guys wall. >> the fact that when you do things like this, then you make the impossible to negotiate. when everyone literally across the ideological spectrum were reading this, were like, whoa, what...

>> if he wanted any of this, he would have done it when he had the leverage of the republican controlled house. he wants to do a dominance move with nancy pelosi and possibly get something he can talk about in his reelection bid but he has no interest in coming to any sort of good-faith comp can rumize. and hes in a situation where the "times" wrote a good piece on him that this is an mo from him and walking away from things and basically using the fact that he cares more about winning than the ...

>> are there any benefits to getting out of washington? its not going to be a traditional like speech. its not no matter what if the government is shutdown. >> if he calls for bipartisanship and waspositive, but if it was typical in a hangar screaming about his political enemies, thats a mistake. >> or he could set more agenda items. the only thing on his agenda is the wall. republicans need some sort of conversation about policy. we are not talking about policy and were almost a month into this...