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Judgment has to be made, i think. >> mr. secretary, i was taekting with a marine friend of mine just before the broadcast. your quote about marines dont quit has already been memorialized on the graphic at the bottom of our screen. you are so right. marines dont quit, but this marine, so attuned to the chain of command, resigns when he feels he cant carry out the orders from his commander in chief, and only under those circumstances. >> he made it very clear in his, in his letter that there are ...

Political analyst. kasie, let me start with you. obviously there is a lot of chatter. white house negotiators went to chuck schumers office, seemed to walk out, walked over to the house. that sounds like a ping pong strategy has developed, but it sounds like its an acknowledgement that democrats have all the leverage. >> its fundamentally an acknowledgement of that, chuck. theres a reason they started in schumers office. but i think you have it right. frankly this is a much better scenario stand...

Hold, did you? that was just last week. today the president sang a very different tune. >> its really up to the democrats. totally up to the democrats as to whether or not we have a shutdown. its possible that well have a shutdown. i would say the chances are probably very good because i dont think democrats care so much about maybe this issue. >> donald trump completely ignoring the fact or maybe hasnt been briefed yet that his party holds the majority in both chambers of congress. his passing ...

These threats. >> i do think that theres so much chaos in washington writ large that this shutdown seems to blur with every other kind of crazy thing that -- >> it wasnt even our lead story this morning. jim mattis on the "today" show was our lead story. government shutdowns, people are like, its just a constant state. >> it depends if its over a week and it opens back up on a monday. but i think the problem here and the actual question is how do any of these people get out of this? just as a re...

Earlier in the presidency, because now it is at a crisis point, and the republicans are poised to es is sen shally lose their control of the house in a few week, and at that point, they wont have any leverage to get anything done. so even though he has been listening to the allies on fox news, they are not satisfied by what they are seeing, because they say, if it is a key priority for president trump, it should have been addressed in the early days when he had real leverage, andrea. >> thank yo...

Gutless yesterday, and trump is very susceptible to whatever the last thing he heard is. i dont think its out of the question that hell sign it. theres two things this whole fight demonstrates, and thats he lost leverage with congress. he is not able to go in and lean on them. they were paying no attention to him over the last time. the second is, we are beginning for the first time to see some cracks and republican support. over in the senate, its over syria. they are outraged. my guess is they...

Mueller team somehow got an unofficial transcript of the report. perhaps through director of national intelligence. so they know, they know what roger stone told you already. theyve seen the notes already. the reason to get the official transcript the "post" says is because you need the official transcript for an indictment. now, i dont know if that means mueller is going to indict roger stone or not, but does this move tell you that perhaps hes getting closer to making the decision? the final p...

One who has cheered it is russia. they sent a note saying, this is great. >> you see it as a big win for russia, for syria and iran? >> those are the forces that have been supporting the government of assad and this takes the pressure off the government of assad . if youre trying to get to a new level of government with syria, you take your troops off the ground. we had very little leverage in syria. this was the leverage we had. it wasnt costing us a lot, it was achieving some results. obama ha...

Like paul manafort spending a good chunk of the rest of his life in jail if mueller decided to throw the book at him. this is a big point of leverage. the reason this is important, john, you made this point, you know, weve seen all sorts of efforts on the part of russians to reach out to the trump campaign. we saw it with the don junior meeting. we saw it with michael cohen and various -- weve seen the trump people lie about it. roger stone could be the guy who knew in advance what was going to ...

Base. >> it is his last chance. jim jordan is right. come january 3rd, nancy pelos she will have all the leverage. jim jordan and mark meadows will disapp important figures presid they have his ear. to that regard, they have to do to jump off a cliff with no the president who only got 46% >> its interesting to see how ann coulter is in a different catego but people like mark