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Leverage over everyone, whether it was their money he was holding or he was threatening to evict them from an apartment or whatever it was, he had the leverage. and here he doesnt really have it. >> reporter: in fact, their showdown over the government shutdown has pitted a president who acts impulsively, sometimes recklessly, against a savvy political operator who views himself as her equal. many believe trump has not only met his match but pelosi is flat out winning. take her even tones, even ...

2000 people a day. for the first time ever, the vast majority are families and unaccompanied children being exploited by human traffickers and cartels.that take cash to have them take the long and dangerous journey. it is overwhelming our system and in the midst of that, narcotics, criminals coming across our border. the american people want action on our southern border. they wantborder security. 800,000 federal workers want us to find a way to open government and . >>chris: you could open the ...

The press give the president credit for anything in two years. what is more important, we have a shutdown and at some point people need to get to the table. the president makes offers, they are rejected on arrival. who is going to open the government. howie: maybe it was just putting pressure on the democrats by going public. white house aides say it was cast as a compromise. its a fact. he offered something he hadnt offered before. juan: the president has the bully pulpit. he spoke to the ameri...

For the dreamers. something that the president took away. you dont give back something you took away and say thats an offer in compromise. i think speaker pelosi recognizes this. she recognizes the american people are with her on this. president trump needs to open government and making legitimate - - they can legitimately debate. >>chris: if he really is the government, he will lose all of his leverage. he asked her if i open government will you ever give me money for the wall and she said no. ...

Really, really painful, and mostly painful for the president. >> where do you think its going to end up, then? do you think theres going to be some give from the democrats or the president is going to have to say i cant get it this way, im going to have to figure out another way to do it. maybe the emergency or -- >> i think the democrats feel like theyre in a rock solid position. they have total leverage on the situation. its going to be the presidents going to have to give somewhere. and i sus...

President gets better than any hes been unafraid to say it. hes been bold about it. the biggest foreign policy mistake of our lifetime bar none was opposing and getting rid of the regime of saddam hussein. >> that did tip the balance. it created chaos. guess what? iraq, their best ally is iran. iran has a great deal of influence in iraq. thats because we got involved with rejet stream change. >> that is the lesson of the middle east. every time we had a regime change, weve had undintended critic...

Hard working men and women as a leverage or as a negotiating tactic when we dont agree on a specific policy. so i would hope were 29 days into this shutdown, i would hope the president has a message to reopen the government so we can mitigate the damages that have been caused. when i took my oath of office just two weeks ago, the government has been shut down. im taken eight votes on the house floor to reopen the government. the reality is the government could be opened today if mitch mcconnell ...

Ploy, maybe well get to an end of this, but trumps trying to reset the ground and show hes being reasonable. its unfamiliar territory for donald trump. >> do you think the democrats will see it that way? will see this as an opening? >> clearly leadership is not. learn from republicans in 2013 when we were -- one half of one-third of government. democrats dont have the leverage here other than donald trump opening his big mouth in the meeting and saying we can call it the trump shutdown. >> while...

Be deported. he will get his border wall, also border security measures. were told the president is hoping the republican controlled senate will vote on his proposal this next week. that is important because senate majority leader mcconnell has not been willing to hold any votes on any proposals that the president has not signed off on. if it passes there, if house democrats refuse to compromise, they would put house speaker pelosi in position of rejecting a deal that could reopen the government...

Be an executive branch thats out of the control of the executive. the idea that the fbi launching counterintelligence investigations against the president that they serve, this is j. edgar hoover stuff. and, obviously, it was common in that era that the former fbi director in order to get leverage on politicians would dig through their personal lives , surveil them, and its highly disturbing to see that return. paul: that was, ultimately, subsumed by the mueller probe, took over this. thats wher...