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Totally misinterpreted nancy pelosi and the position of the democrats thinking he could push them and he couldnt, he put the republicans in an awful position and now hes backed himself into a corner where the only way out is to make a declaration, the kind of unilateral a, that republicans have railed against for eight years during the obama administration. its a really terrible position. >> its striking to me the clips we played a little while ago, chuck grassley, marco rubio, mitt romney. you ...

Know, president trump just has to open government. theres a crisis in the oval office. we have a president thats abusing power and shutting down government and trying to use that as leverage to fund a wall that experts say is not only ineffective but everyone says is too expensive and impractical. >> what is your view for people watching at home that may think the government should reopen but they like something about the idea that a commander in chief may need to declare an emergency or go to t...

Payback after it, but that was over a policy issue t. was about ed education cuts. youre going to have a both sides dynamic on that because the president at that time failing to make those cuts. you either make a deal or you dont, but the shutdown as a release valve to make other people feel the pain and have to use that as leverage, very dangerous in politics. but thats not going on here because this wall was never real. >> mm-hmm. >> it was a farce. >> yep. >> it was a device for a campaign. h...

You either make a deal or you dont, but the shutdown as a release valve to make other people feel the pain and have to use that as leverage, very dangerous in politics. but thats not going on here because this wall was never real. >> mm-hmm. >> it was a farce. >> yep. >> it was a device for a campaign. he was never going to get it. the gop never wanted to give it to him. it was never going to happen, and thats why on the show tonight, we did a wall showing how hes been moving from that wall to t...

Both sides are banking on the fact that their base and the people for them will continue to back them in these hard-lined positions. and they wont be forced to compromise. you have the white house saying they are open to the idea of a national emergency. >> yeah. ron, tell us how that would play out. the president is going to the border with his lawyer -- interesting. maybe he announces it there. we dont know. if he does, what happens? >> look, the benefit of a national emergency for the preside...

>> reporter: kim was in china this week at the very same time that top american trade negotiators were also there. trying to work their way out of a trade war with china. experts say that was no coincidence. xi is holding his influence with north korea over president trump. what is the danger to the united states of xi being so powerful right now with north korea and the u.s.? >> i think the risk for the u.s. and chinas leverage is if we dont make progress in the north korea/u.s. channel, this g...

Know, to say, okay, then we dont have a deal. we got to go. good-bye. bye-bye. >> im fine with that as long as people arent getting paychecks because of it. you want to play hardball and walk away and say, im not going to make a deal with you, but youre going to pay for this, thats a big part of politics. okay? politics is pressure. it can be persuasion, and it can be pain. >> you read my mind. >> but this is cheap whats going on here right now. >> i was going to say, why cant you open the gover...

I have invited congressional leadership to the white house tomorrow to get this done. >> well, today, they have that meeting. and he walked out. >> he asked speaker pelosi will you agree to my wall? she said no. and he just got up and said we have nothing to discuss and just walked out. >> just left a meeting with chuck and nancy, the president tweeteded. a waste f time. are you going to approve border security, nancy said no. i said bye bye, nothing else works. actually, accord iing to a congre...

I get it. he had a great exchange today with jonathan karl, my old buddy. brilliant reporter. he said, hey, john, how about you? would you sign the appropriation bills? johns not going to answer that question. hes a journalist. he said, you know, if you would sign them, youd never be right for this job. and thats not true. the job of being a president isnt putting yourself first. >> yeah. >> leverage, which is fake leverage because youre putting pain on the backs of people who dont deserve it, t...

>> and i believe thats what he said by the way. >> i believe it too. you just talked about some of the things that happened. im going to go through it in just a little bit here, but its just amazing to me that, you know, to say, okay, then we dont have a deal. we got to go. good-bye. bye-bye. >> im fine with that as long as people arent getting paychecks because of it. you want to play hardball and walk away and say, im not going to make a deal with you, but youre going to pay for this, thats a ...