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Andrea? >> garrett, covering the white house as you do, what is the strategy here. the democrats take over tomorrow, and he is losing leverage and they have the votes to pass the measure, and then back to nancy pelosi, it is on the senates problem,and they have passed it. so how can they say they dont agree with it any longer? >> andrea, the strategy is to seize as much of the initiative and to the degree they have it leveraged as the white house possibly can. both of the meetings today, the cab...

Frankly speaking, hes saying at the highest levels of the u.s. embassy, im concerned. i would agree, the lyinglihood that this man was doing something for the intelligence community is fairly low. the reason i say that is because in the past when weve had spies or at least those identified as spies by the russian government apprehended they have been turned over within a matter of hours if not days. in 2003 there was such a case. the russians turned the guy over and kicked him out of the country...

They know that they dont have the leverage to need to get what he really wants, and $5 billion up for a wall, and so they want to know what else they could get. >> garrett headache up on capitol hill, and how much of the box is mitch mcconnell in as the senate conveen, because they have 53 republicans, but they kapt do anything without the house going along with it. >> that is right. when the democrats pass these spending measure, sits going to be increasing pressure on mitch mcconnell to solve ...

Help trump. this is the closest weve gotten to putin trying to effect the outcome of the u.s. election. he doesnt have any cards in his hand right now. he needs to get some. the leverage that hes got is to arrest a random american, hold him hostage and create some type of prisoner swap at some point in the future. and hopefully not have butina cooperate with mueller. >> to that end, bill, what do you think the u.s. should be doing in this case or in the big picture approach with everything you j...

You wind up negotiating against yourself. hes laid down a very real marker that he is not going to budge from, according to his own words. so if you go on television and you have to answer questions about, well, if they dont accept that, what would you accept, and you start to negotiate against yourself, this whole thing in my opinion is still between him and chuck schumer. it requires 60 votes in the senate and a presidential signature. mcconnells conference in the senate, republicans are unite...

Course of in. they may have to do something if the economy turns sour. although, im not sure you could provide much stimulus. you just dont know. >> what donald trump did early on is poured gasoline on an already roaring economic fire. now we have taken the leverage out. but that will be the republicans. that changes the political dynamic in profound ways. the big question you always ask is what could make some republicans start to question their so far uncritical loyalty of donald trump almost ...

Un? >> totally predictable. im sure that the presidents team actually was not surprised at all by kim jong uns rhetoric. remember, he, kim, wants a stronger economy. his economy is one of the smallest in the world, its not very integrated so he wants those sanctions listed. he considers the sanctions the biggest amount of pressure and he wants his regime in power and his new mexico and missiles give him that leverage. i dont think we should read more into it than it is. what matters is the diplo...

Democrats did well at that in the midterms in 2018. so i think those are going to be the priorities. >> congress may get brought into a situation where they have to do things on healthcare depending on what happens with the courts and this overturning, the district court who overturned obamacare. they may have to do something if the economy turns sour, although im not sure you can provide much stimulus given where we are with the tax cuts that already existed. you just dont know. >> thats one of...

Come to the table and negotiate with the president. she just cant risk doing that right now. its politics getting in the way of serving the american people and the hundreds of thousands of federal workers that are not getting paid right now. i think once she does come in to take that speakership officially, i think well see that happen. the president is not backing down. he shouldnt back down. he made this promise to the american people during his campaign. the american people put him in office ...

It will likely pass. then its up to republicans and president trump. highly unlikely either will support it. molly, this groundhog day feel here in washington could certainly continue for quite some time. >> molly: well see if we are talking about the same thing next week. >> leland: yogi berra called it deja vu all over again. pete hegseth had an interview with the president. he wants success, prosperity and health for our country. david mark from the examiner. the president wants money for his...