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3%. but look at whats happening now with the market. after this very rapid decline, in the worst position since april 2017, basically since when he took office, the benefits of that tax cut may be running out fairly quickly, and with the markets dipping and the long-term implications of his tariff and trade policies, 2019 could like a very different year. and that could hurt both his political posture in terms of leverage with democrats taking over the house and his standing with voters heading ...

Democrats take over, hes got very little leverage on that house side. if we end up there, he understands that the game changes and then it becomes about trying to blame the democrats for this, but if he can try to make the point, secure some money for border security, and make it look like by holding out, he gets a win, he may end up trying to do that. i think hell use the next couple days to tist the waters on that. later this week at the earliest, but it could slip pack the first of the new ye...

Saying that the only way to secure the border is to build this wall. everyone else is arguing that you need border security and you need an overall comprehensive immigration reform package. the democrats now have the leverage coming in, taking congress, to push the president to come to the table and do a comprehensive package. >> how does this get resolved, though? a comprehensive package, i would like to argue, it takes time. and it takes real pressure, and it takes not, you know, looking at it...

I imagine democrats, some democratic senators say privately that they may be able to go up a little bit from the $1.3 billion as long as its not for a wall. but remember, nancy pelosi and the house democrats come in charge january 3rd and at that point the presidents leverage is going to continue to decrease. >> they dont really have much of an incentive at the moment to give in. >> exactly. >> there was a brief session in the senate today presided over by pat roberts who said, lbj said sometime...

What they were planning on focusing on, which was the series of investigations into the president and being able to set a proactive agenda rather than having to deal with it on his terms. you can see sort of the upside to a deal, but you can also see that they understand from a policy perspective theyll have much more leverage to be decisive and stop him on some of these fronts if they wait until the beginning of january. >> i want to take a look over to the markets because not a good start to t...

Advice of his closest national security advisers but without informing many of them or also u.s. allies and partners in the field. does the u.s. have a decision-making process today for key and national security decisions? >> i dont know. i dont think anyone knows, which tells you theres probably not a great process for getting these decisions done. and thats what so upset mattis in this particular case. weve seen this before. weve seen this movie before. if you remember, you know, trump was giv...

Speaker pelosi is pass the same cr, i suppose, without the $5 million. trump says no, unacceptable. so who is in the middle? who has got the leverage? the senate. and really the senate republicans. and i think thats an interesting moment. and i do not assume that senate republicans just stay in lockstep behind trump at that point. i think they could cut their own deal. >> a veto? >> they could cut their own deal. mcconnell is a good deal-maker. he and pelosi can get together and give a little so...

Dialogue is like, we have a sound bite. incoming heef of staff mick mulvaney and chuck schumer. listen to this. >> it will never pass the senate, not today, not next week, not next year. so, mr. president, president trump, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall. plain and simple. >> now as you noted, the warning from mulvaney was that this shutdown could go into the new congress, as democrats take over the house january 3rd, it would be a significant loss of leverage for t...

For us. todd: thanks for your concern about my voice. donald trump has been calling for border wall since he launched his campaign in 2015. carley: congress new his demands and their in action created the standoff. >> donald trump in march promised the border wall funding would then be available at the end of the year and we cant get $5 billion after he was promised you will never have to sign something again without it. anybody surprised donald trump changed his mind at the last minute you have...

Insecurity. when the right-wingers start screaming at him, he backs off and do symbols in front of us. we now have reached a depth of dysfunction that i have never seen in washington. >> saying that the president is not going to accept any sort of deal that does not include some sort of physical barrier, a border wall, but to mick mulvaney also says what one person calls a wall, another person might call a fence. julie. >> julie: all right, thank you very much. so now we are joined by our panel ...