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With china. >> paul: as you talk to your soressources in the white houses the president decided he wants a deal? >> hes confident. i spokele with him. he seems confident that china will come to the table. who knows what beijing will do with that regime. their stock market is down 30% this year. theyve been hurt by the e.tariffs. trump believes that the leverage he is gaining from the tariffs -- im a free trade guy. he believes this will bring china to the table and he thinks hell get a call from...

Illegal immigrants getting -- they could use it for health care. >> im going to defend donald trump for a second. donald trump did try to negotiate on daca and immigration security and he got his head handed to him and not by me and not by my party but by this party and many people on this channel. >> thats not what happened. >> thats exactly what happened. >> sandra: mark, your final thought. >> if the democrats are smart, they have to decide are they the resis dance oresistance or a gog majori...

Both sides say they are going to reach a deal and then you can end the shutdown. they dont actually have to have a signed piece of paper. that is possible. i think that doesnt realistically happen until after january 3rd. so, yeah. sandra: by the way, if -- i believe sonny hoyer, nancy pelosi, theyll put legislation on the floor, january 3rd, will the president just veto anything that doesnt have a wall in it? >> absolutely. he should. this is a bigger issue than just the shutdown. this goes to ...

Will remain volatile. >> the holiday season was good for retailers, we seem people spending, what more should we read into all of this, gary? >> i think the market is a great predictor of the future, 3 to 6 months out. i can tell you that foreign markets topped out last february and now we are starting to get the bad numbers as i mentioned europe and japan, so i think we will see 2% gdp or less. the good news is if we do not into a recession, if things dont get really bad eventually the market w...

These have been options for the president and senate and house to resolve issue, its been out there in the past, whether or not the white house is going to look at the calendar and say this time we are going to take this possibility a bit more seriously because come january 3rd, its a democratic house of representatives, right now theyve got leverage, they have republicans that can pass a deal in the house that can be confirmed in the senate and the president can sign it, we will see. lindsey gr...

Realize they have an obligation to the country, not just their party, thats not going to happen. >> when it comes to this and where the president stands, susan, is where does the president go? where can he move as far as getting himself out of this mess, but is this something thats going to be stuck with him? >> well, the situation at the border is going to be stuck with him. hes gone too far out there. as far as when it comes to whats going on in the government shutdown, thats a different story...

>> one thing we are hearing over and over again is what is entailed and what is the president looking for, what does he want? you heard senator gram suggesting there is a real opportunity when it comes to a deal involving dreamers. why wouldnt there be a response from that ? >> i think it is still very unclear as to what he would sign and what he wants. when you look at the democrats right now, particularly nancy pelosi, on january 3rd he will wake up to democrats having the house. they will hav...

Prosecutors have these e-mails and they do, in fact, say what "time" is reporting, thats very powerful. but e-mails unto themselves may not be enough. you want some sort of inside witness to also corroborate what these e-mails show. >> thats what were waiting to see. were waiting to see if someone else is going to come forward and speak publicly because so much of this has been happening behind closed doors. so much of this has been happening under the shroud of secre secrecy. one person who is ...

Was millions of dollars in debt. he owed us a lot of money and offering ways to pay it back. what does this mean and what kind of impact would it have on the russia investigation? could it mean others knew about these meetings as well? >> yeah. one of the interesting thing about this new report is that paul manafort before the election continued to do work for a russian. for someone that is desperate for cash and owed $19 million, that creates significant leverage i think he had the motive and a...

Money for his fence altogether rather than give the department of homeland security a year of funding at the same level as last year." im joined now by democratic congressman john garamendi of california and christian whiteman is a former senior adviser to presidents trump and bush. thank you both for being with us. christian, let me start with you. it has to do with the reporting we were showing from liberal groups now telling house democrats hey, no money at all. this $1.3 billion that democra...