Page 1347 - Leverage News Today

Democrats give him a bit of a concession. as i was saying, it all has to do with the way he thinks this looks to his base and to really the right wing media. he wants to look like he somehow won. he needs to save face some way. the democrats are not going to cave. they have made it very clear that they are not building this wall. they have all the leverage at the moment. and the democrats are really stronger on this than they have been in the previous years. they really, really are not going to ...

Issues in the 2013 case and this case are identical. filed a motion to dismiss and the judge ruled in our favor, determining the government, in fact, violated the fair labor standards act by requiring these essential employ ooepyees to go work and not pay them on time. the only issue left in the case was whether or not the government was liable for liqui dated damages. the judge ruled in our favor. determining the government didnt act in good faith when it failed to pay these employees. >> while...

Commonality here and i think thats important. i think putin is probably interested in getting butina back into russia as soon as possible, out of u.s. hands. and i think that it is his way of reminding us that hey, ive got a little bit of leverage here so lets see if we cant figure out a way to make this work. >> the fact that whelan has four passports, that he had a russian social media page, any red flags there? >> not really. hes got a family that covers a number of different places. his brot...

And the apprehensions on the southern border are a fraction today of what they were in the early 2000s. any move to do it unilaterally through national emergency would face immediate legal challenge. hard to imagine you would get a lot built while it was percolating through the courts. >> real quickly, i want your takes on the latest tweet from the president. i dont care that most of the workers not getting paid are democrats, i want to stop the shutdown as soon as were in agreement on strong bo...

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 ...

Funding, any trades suggest they like the fight and not a solution. paul: infrastructure, you mentioned that. the parties are far apart from that. the democrats want trillion dollars of public opinion, the republicans are saying much less and leverage. >> i think you could get president trump to spend taxpayer fund on this, the big sticking point that democrats will not accept is a streamlining of the process of building that limits their ability to use environmental rules to stop development. p...

As forms of systematic leverage. okay, max...time to help mrs. tyler

Canada. i am dying to know if you made up all this. >> this is fascinating. this is the worst jason bourne movie ever. i mean, racking up all the passports and everything. i actually ran a school for tier 1 special operations personnel who ran the risk of being detained by a foreign hostile government. this detention is actually called hostile government detention. its when a foreign government abducts or detains a u.s. citizen for the purpose of getting geopolitical leverage against another gov...

Attention, he loves being in that space. however, he is definitively cornered. one of the things its showing is the president actually isnt a very good deal maker. the people who supported him who said he was going to go to washington, he was a businessman who would apply business skills and a long history of deal-making to getting things done in washington, draining the swamp, et cetera, et cetera. anybody who knew the particulars and facts of his business history knew that he was repeatedly ta...

Caucus, are eager to dive in with subpoenas? theyre being more measured? what does it pace look like? >> theyre being very calculating. they have a plan. first you do whats called a chairmans letter where you sort of ask nicely. because its actually more difficult than people understand to enforce a congressional subpoena and you have to establish a record to the court that youve tried to ask in other ways and youve tried to get the information every way possible. and its also true that congress...