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Crashing. so many things are moving now. i just dont see the public -- its like you said. third time this year. until you reminded me of that i totally forgot. >> if its patched up monday or tuesday or whatever, i think it clearly falls in the forgotten category. is there a scenario here where the calendar is flipping into february 2019 and saying, democrat house is digging in its heels on the wall and trump is still insisting -- this impasse lives for weeks or months? >> whether or not its forg...

As senator schumer said earlier this afternoon, there will be -- and yesterday as well, there will be no wall today, no wall tomorrow, and no wall on january 3rd, when the democrats take the house majority. >> joel payne who do you think has more leverage here? is it democrats or republicans? if you think it is republicans at all, is their time very quickly running out? >> i think democrats have the leverage. heres what i would also say, the idea that the president cares about the issue of immig...

And make sme choose. in the wake of the oval office photoon that jeff was talking about i spoke with staff literally cringing thinking that the president undercut any negotiating position they had. one of them told me that the president doesnt really have a negotiating position at all because of course nancy pelosi will need the house democrats into the minuterity in exactly two weeks on january 3rd. there is all the leverage. democrats are seen as having all the leverage here. what we have seen...

The senate that you might have a democratic leadership cave and i a okay, well give you a couple million for the wall in principle democrats oppose the idea of stringing a wall across the southern border. what incentive is there for democrats to give donald trump a penny? nancy pelosi position is you get nothing. >> there was an incentive previously to give something for border security if not for a wall or you can build -- put a window in a wall in some places a wall makes complete sense. but a...

Question is this a big part of why hes doing what hes done in the last 24, 48 hours? >> it could be. and i think that thats the way think about almost everything that the president does right now. it is consuming him. its consuming his administration, richard, and as you point out, it is marching forward. look at all of the people from his inner circle who have pleaded guilty or been indicted or in some way been wrapped up in the russia investigation and the democrats are now going to have overs...

Hear from russia that they actually view this as a rather positive move. >> lets talk specifically, clarissa, about why, though, russia would see this as positive when it comes to how mattis had at least advised the president on russia specific issues. >> well, i think there are several key areas. first of all, russia has been increasingly trying to assert itself in the middle east. and to maximize its leverage in the region through the searian conflict. having the u.s. presence in syria obvious...

Werent there for very long, jake, which is raising questions about what it is that could have gone on behind closed doors, but since they are meeting with chuck schumer, it seemed to be that the democrats have got some leverage here. president trump was scheduled to go initially to mar-a-lago for his holiday vacation about an hour ago, but hes still here at the white house, and as long as this shutdown is till still on,e are no plans for him to travel to palm beach tonight, jake. >> we go to cnn...

The $5 billion and spread it out over a few years. democrats said no way. we are not giving him that money. once the senate takes up the bill with $5 million in border wall funding and it doesnt pass the senate, we dont know whats going to happen. democrats will take charge january 3rd and they will vote again to reopen the government. if the government is shut down, what does the president do? he will be in this very dug in position? >> no. democrats have the leverage. they dont have to give an...

Telegraphing military strategy. i wonder what you think where there is a diplomatic path working toward some kind of agreement to pave the way for troops to withdraw. normally you come it an agreement and then you have a timeline. except now its a timeline and negotiators lose a lot of leverage. >> i agreed with the president during campaign when who said he wasnt going to telegraph what hes going to do. i thought president obamas red line in syria that he has now erased -- you should never say ...

Turn to for protection. but no one really seems that despite the sacrifices the crowds back to where they stopped its all she has managed to take on isis and defeat isis isis did present very imminent threat to them but other than that they would not be achieving any of their political goals they wanted to have a contiguous territory of a long border that is not going to happen they wanted some sort of autonomy within city of thats going to be very hard because it would have been a leverage the ...