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Congress who might also prefer if thats the case because that potentially gives them somebody they can say the democrats have got some extra leverage here. maybe it gives them room to carve out a deal they wouldnt right now. >> well, i think thats kind of right. and steve, right now, democrats have no power. republicans are in charge of everything. they managed to shut down account government all by themselves, controlling the presidency and both houses of congress, and this is where we are. com...

Move. theres also a school of thought that there are republicans in congress who might also prefer if thats the case, because that potentially gives them somebody they can say, hey, the democrats, theyve got some extra leverage here, maybe it gives them room to carve out a deal they couldnt right now. >> well, i think thats kind of right, in that right now democrats have no power. republicans are in charge of everything. they managed to shut down the government all by themselves, controlling the...

Florida if there was a shutdown to this point. hes tweeting a bunch, and hes now saying im going to shut down the southern border altogether, which to most people sounds like a heck of an empty threat. >> i think its almost impossible to do given the economic realities. i think he just needs some leverage point and hes trying to keep the focus on the fact that the debate is about the border. and he does have the bully pulpit here. >> but isnt fake leverage no leverage? >> not here, not when youv...

Theyre negotiating for. i think thats the biggest problem for republicans. theres no clear strategy. theres no unified message for republicans to coalesce around. thats creating difficulties heading into january when democrats are going to take over and have additional leverage in these negotiations. >> we already saw in some of the polls that the american public is putting the blame on the president. that is something that the president said he owns. politically speaking, how much will the pres...

Mexico to pay for the wall if you want a wall so bad. its very clear. >> and they will. thats the final step in this process. >> i -- i love this 12-step process that the republicans are in where apparently we pay for the wall, our tax money pays for the wall and somewhere down the line they get mexico to pay for a wall they never wanted to pay for and that the last two including the former president used many words of profanity to say that mexico will never pay for. heres the issue. at the end ...

Widely unpopular move. ambassador robert ford argues the following that many have asserted that the withdrawal gives victory in syria to russia. the portion of syria that u.s. forces control along side their syrian democratic forces allies is desert or drought prone planes. thats his argument. do you agree? >> not exactly. i agree with him that if we dont do anything more diplomatically on the ground effectively russia and iran and syria have won. i think those of us who bemoan this hasty, uncoo...

With what he has been sending out. the white house is stepping up blame on democrats for the government shutdown. what do you make of this? is this getting any traction? >> it doesnt seem like it is. if you look at polls, about 47% of americans now blame president trump for this shutdown. democrats have successfully labeled this the trump shutdown. hes really facing an upward battle in terms of messaging around this and trying to portray this as the fault of senate and house democrats as opposed...

Make the base angry. there are a lot of ideas out there mp . >> we have talked to the democrats about different things, about different changes to our immigration law. this is a border security discussion. not just a border wall. theres other things broken with our border security including the liaws that allow folks to stay here. >> ken, is that on the table anymore? >> absolutely not. that is something democrats offer when they were sort of still in this deal making mode. chuck schumer offered...

Bit more control over it or maybe in the proceeding weeks as opposed to in a week when nancy pelosi takes over and no matter what he does, democrats will spin it as nancy pelosi sort of winning the day and forcing trump to accept the solution that she proposed as opposed to one that can be passed with entirely republican support or with a republican controlled house or republican controlled senate even with some democratic support that would be necessary to get over the 60 vote thresholds. that ...

Invasion of galipili. he brought all of that to the table and was the leader of the moment. thats designed of leader we need now. unfortunately thats not the kind of leader we have. i would close on this. back to the allies piece of this, joe. one thing president trump ought to understand is the concept of leverage. thats when you put a little bit in, but you get a lot of leverage out of the result. thats what we do with those allies. back to afghanistan, when we commanded that mission, we had 1...