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What i call ping pong politics, where theres this power play. if congress really wanted to do something, they can essentially bring up a vote every 48 hours if they want to, to open up government. they need a super majority. if they can get a super majority, they dont have to wait for the president to either sign something into law or veto it. >> okay. then lets talk about that. what are your former colleagues saying? do they like being in this position of shutting the government down over the w...

Walters was so trusted by the russians, he was the interpreter for both sides. nobody else was in the room. we dont even know if there are any notes left. i imagine he threw them away. >> we do know the russians have notes and very detailed notes and you imagine that could be leverage over this president given they know what was in that conversation. the president in that meeting thinking hes negotiating on his own not understanding hes a representative of the american people, the american inter...

Solution to syria comes forward, and i have no idea why we would want to give up that leverage and allow iran, allow vladimir putin to carve up syria as they see fit. >> thank you for your perspective on what certainly is a hard day for the fighting men and women today and it begs perspective. thank you for providing it. all right. lets take on another tough issue right now. the shutdown. you believe the shutdown is a mistake. that thats not the way to leverage a negotiation. the president disag...

American people, watching this what i call ping-pong politics where theres this power play. if congress really wanted to do something, they could essentially bring up a vote every 48 hours if they want to open up government. they need a super majority. if they can get a super majority, they dont have to wait for the president to either sign something into law or veto it. >> lets talk ability that. what are your former colleagues saying? do they like being in this position of shutting the governm...

Absolutely murderous regime. this is an investment worth note tlrg is an investment of a few thousand troops to keep a lid on all of that and for the united states to have leverage. we have 25,000 troops in japan, 30,000 in korea. there are a lot of american troops around the world and i want, again, i want us to fight these wars over there. there is a fundamentally flawed premise that if we just leave things alone locals can take care of it and it wont follow us home. and i think thats where i ...

Awesome. >> juan: used all my notes. >> dana: we can read your mind. this story broke during the 2:00 hour and i had john roberts and peter doocy on here we find out that not only is he canceling the trip but the trip is supposed to leave in 30 minutes. they are on the air force bus with the capitol police ready to go. >> greg: she already took her ambien. >> dana: never do that until you are the runway. >> greg: you fall asleep and he gets delayed. >> dana: you could get in trouble. i knew some...

Logistics. it took you to years to come up with one, they have to come with secular predont have two more years. how can she get this done? what kind of leverage to the people of the u.k. have in the e.u. if theyve took a back or not leave >> there greatly right. they dont trust that anything positive is going to come out it. they think the whole thing is a mess. the postal ruling class has made a huge mess of this. and theres a sense of complete spirit of the u.k. at the moment or terms of leve...

To which thats a freak occurrence. >> and in fact weve seen his approval rating go down over time. we know there are vulnerable congressional republicans particularly in the senate like cory gardner. what would break this is first order concern, even by the most ostensibly anti-american -- >> theres never been a situation where the republican has been the one calling for the shut down because presidents are usually -- this is a way be congress uses to get leverage over a president who usually wa...

>> and it worked for him in the election obviously in 2016 but you cant internalize the extent to which thats a freak occurrence. >> and in fact weve seen his approval rating go down over time. we know there are vulnerable congressional republicans particularly in t particularly in the senate like cory gardner. what would break this is first order concern, even by the most ostensibly anti-american -- >> theres never been a situation where the republican has been the one calling for the shut down...

Figure out is whether there was any money laundering issues between the trump organization and russian oligarchs who are pumping money into president trumps businesses. but as you know devin nunes didnt issue a bankricereds, travel records, anything to help us get to the bottom of the history of russia and the organization in russia and whether they have leverage over donald trump. thats something i hope bob mueller has figured out. democrats are control of the intelligence community. well go ab...