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Working to see his cartel members and others trying to bring special interest in aliens into the country. leland: one of the outgoing republican members, congressmen cost ll said if and when the government shut down stairs no pressure on dems. then they control the house on january 3rd. then dems have moral leverage. why is he wrong? >> he is wrong because those are rolled deeper into the shut down i think the democrats will experience more pain than republicans. the >> what pain have democrats ...

Cr. well fund this until february 8th. mike pence the vice president told republican senators that. you have john cornyn, the number two republican senator, says he will sign the cr. he took this huge deluge of criticism from rush limbaugh and other talk radio hosts and also from the house freedom caucus. that move, was that basically about im going to shore up the my core base here? >> well, i dont think it is only that democrats were saying they were getting a lot out of president in this deal...

This partial closure wont end. jon: we know the earliest things could get back to normal would be december 27th. democrats are suggesting that it might go on into january when they take over the house on the 3rd of january. why does that give them more leverage? >> i dont know that it actually does give them more leverage. they take control of the house and thus the responsibility for whether or not theyre willing to negotiate. so if the minority leader who will become the speaker, nancy pelosi ...

We can possibly get which is why were is why would make any argument about the impacts of families, impacts on drugs coming across our border. >> of this is an issue of principle and national security as your outline and the government shutdown and you have more leverage, why not try to get it all right now? >> we would get as much as we can. my assessment is 5 billion is the right number. on "fox news sunday" mick mulvaney said we made an offer for some a month. look, i want all five alien. >> ...

Absolutely. >> the president likes to fight. and he likes his base to see him fighting. he knows this issue is a winner for him. he knows to eugenes point he did have some erosion on that base that was shown in 2018. i think he wants to show the ann coulters and rush limbaughs and the right wing radio types, hey, im still the guy we fell in love three years ago, nothing has changed, nothing is different. he does not actually care about this issue because if he did, remember, he had an opportunit...

Street may not know who brett mcgerk is, but hes been running the u.s. governments campaign against isis for three or four years now, traveling around the world, trying to build coalitions and the president claims that this has been a tremendous success that has administration has been better at driving isis into the ground than any other administration and the president doesnt know who is running this policy for the last two years hes been in office and for a couple years before that. if thats ...

Resignation letter, who takes that job next? who can be convinced to step in and play the role at the head of the pentagon? >> well, kimberly, thats an important question. u.s. military 2.1 million men and women, active guard and reserve, deployed globally during conflict situations not just in syria and afghanistan. theyre facing the chinese naval forces in the south china sea. you know, theyre all listening whos at the helm? we have nine combatant commanders. i was one of them in the latin ame...

Picture yesterday of a steel fence, the steel slatted fence with the pointed top and so forth. thats what we want to build. in the democrats mind, that is not a wall. they have offered us $1.3 billion to build the barrier that we want, whether they go on tv and say there is no money for a wall. we told the democrats we want to build what the president tweeted out. it doesnt have to be 30 foot high concrete. we were at $5 billion a couple days ago. the counter offer we gave them yesterday was bet...

Going to make a much -- much more difficult for him to actually win re-election. but no one should be surprised that democrats arent caving on this. they dont want a wall, period. their base doesnt want a wall. and they certainly dont want americans to pay for it. so the fact that some conservatives are looking at the left saying this is your fault, theyre saying we didnt make this campaign promise. we campaigned against it. so theyre behaving the way that their base wants them to. >> joel, lets...

So unless that happens everything else doesnt mean anything. lets take a step back. its in each sides interest at the moment to dig in and prepare for a longer shutdown. obviously president trump can show his base that hes committed to funding the wall and leader schumer and speaker designate pelosi over in the house can show that theyre willing to fight president trump and really make sure that their basis are riled up as they go into the next congress. thats what matters right now and i think ...