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Conflicti conflicting information. >> a little bit. on one hand it is a straightforward move, but for muellers purposes, it means continued investigative potential. i think there is every reason to think that muellers immediate agenda has to do with coursy and stone. and he will have to take some time to bring leverage to bear against them. that is just for starters. there is some reason to think that he would open up some new areas, but the few steps left

Administrations and shows no signs of changing that, and it is unclear exactly what the u.s. leverage here and bolton is expected to go into meetings tomorrow and try to figure out if they can come to some sort of jeel and the joint chiefs dunford will try to get them to a place where the u.s. can eventually withdraw because now theyve played down the line that theyre not going to withdraw unless they can come to some sort of agreement. >> this is the something that the president announced witho...

>> saying that the president never said something he said is not a great place to start in terms of leverage and to carols point, bolton now will try to go in and negotiate some kind of an agreement with erdogan to not do the thing that american forces were there in northern syria in part to prevent which is, you know, as pompeo rather memorably said last week, a massacre of the kurds and just asking erdogan, hey, you know, pretty please, can you make sure that you dont do anything to harm our a...

Constituencies and interest groups this week, and nancy pelosis going to send over, the house is going to send over individual appropriations bills for other parts of the government, and mitch mcconnells going to say, we cant appropriate for epa or for the faa or for agriculture. why not? because were having a separate fight over the wall. i think thats a very tough position to sustain and i think at some point -- >> you lose all your leverage. >> enough senate republicans vote and i dont know t...

Thats a tough position to sustain. >> you lose all your leverage. >> enough senate republicans boelts, and i dont know that they wont vote to override trump. >> i think youre right. a couple of senators have already said we need to just get on with this. >> collins and gardner. >> right. and i think that more is going to come. and whats going to happen next week when we actually introduce appropriation bills individually? so one of the first bills were going to introduce is the treasury. people ...

Nations capitol thank you. with more and that lets bring in up cusack editor-in-chief of the hill. bob they appear to be a standoff here the president versus house democrats. is there a way to assess which side has more leverage? >> you know i dont think so. think democrats have a slight advantage because they have the political momentum of taking over the house but at the same time both sides are dug in. i dont think theres going to be any deal anytime soon and i think actually theres a better ...

Democrats are going to have century. i joked about it, but if bill leverage. >> absolutely. look at that map of the south clinton said we are really where the states most impacted, building a bridge to the 21st a lot of military bases. he will start getting some calls century people would have said from republicans who are like he was crazy. donald trump just said it how long are we supposed to go because it was a great campaign on with this. this is a case of rich media device. people telling a...

Swamp, et cetera, et cetera. anybody who knew the particulars and facts of his business history knew that he was repeatedly taken to the cleaner on a lot of significant deals. and the reason was because he didnt bone up on the facts, he lacked the patience to see things through to their end, and he usually made it about an appearance of winning rather than authentically getting something he wanted. and i dont think he is familiar with the history of government shutdowns in washington. i dont thi...

Leverage. why hold 800,000 peoples paychecks. if they dont get paid on january 11th, they wont get any money at best until january 25th? >> technically we dont know thats true. im putting back the old omb hat on. but if youre right, if we dont have an agreement by midnight on the 8th which is tuesday, then payroll will not go out as originally planned. >> and were talking now a month. a month for people without a paycheck. >> congress is not even coming back until tuesday. nancy pelosi is not co...

The challenges we have -- >> i understand what you are saying and you and others have done this, but do you disagree with thats why the government is closed? >> i disagree with the premises. why the government was shut down is border security is such a priority to us. he has given congress every chance to fix the problem. we had several good solutions, but couldnt get them across the finish line. the goal that we can agree upon is national security is important. opening the government back up is...