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Swalwell and schiff have indicated several people lied. >> those people have legal vulnerability of being charged. they have been charged and spending time in jail for lying. this is leverage for the special prosecutor. if he gets transcripts of other people who have testified its leverage to flip them. the reason cohen cooperated with the special counsel is because he pled guilty to lying to congress in the -- about russian matters. so anyone who -- >> about trump tower. >> so anyone, and eric ...

An 80 vote in the senate. this is the way washington and government is supposed to work. its refreshing and great. credit to the administration and the senators. not to bring you down, there is another fundamental job of congress and that is to pass budgets to pay for the stuff the country does. we are in a situation now because they cant come to an agreement and the sticking issue is money for the presidents border wall. it is a short term resolution punted into the congress. you made the poi...

Even vice president pence told senate leaders in a closed door luncheon that the president would sign this clean c.r. to keep the government open until february 8th. as you clearly stated, this doesnt include a lot of things the president was hoping for. at one point it appeared he was going to use this for leverage to get funding for that border wall, that doesnt appear to be part of the game plan for president trump. they seem to be not willing to sh shut down a significant partial of the gove...

This, of course, would potentially form the foundation of then going back to roger stone and saying, you said this to congress and we know that not to be true. we learned something in the last couple of weeks, wolf, is -- and mueller showed this, that lying to congress is going to be an offense for which he will -- he will make an indictment. so, again, without confirming any of this stuff, i certainly have concerns and have had for sometime that roger stone wasnt honest with the committee when ...

The moment where you come clean. you might have said you would never testify against donald trump, but look at the charges we have here and think about spending the rest of your days in prison, and if you dont like that prospect we have some questions for you. so if this all turns out to be true, it could be a real element of leverage for mueller on roger stone. >> can you confirm, congressman, that mueller has asked your committee for an official transcript? >> i cant, wolf. im not sure that an...

Leverage if they kick the can. >> the other thing that is remarkable is the lack of understanding and maybe its a lack of a desire to understand, i dont know, how things get funded in government, period. what we are hearing from sarah sanders, at the end of the day it comes back to taxpayer money. >> i am not sure how they are going to pay for it. the thing here is donald trump has enormous egg on his face, and we heard build the wall and mexico will pay for it. two years into his presidency, th...

That notion? >> a lot of republicans on the hill, what you are hearing from them is we will see if he signs it. i think the president is -- his back is up against the wall here. on friday he is scheduled to leave for his winter vacation in mar-a-lago, florida. will he say he wont sign it leaving the government closed and then go to florida? or will he stay here? everybody thinks he will take the out and push it into the new year and keep going. the political fight for him is for his base at this...

February. make no mistake, mr. president, there will be important unfinished business left in front of us. well owe it to the american people to finally tackle it. >> dana: joining me now chris fire walt, fox news editor. is the drama over the shutdown almost over? we do this every three months. >> we are going to do it every three months if this is how poorly they can do it before they change hands. imagine how bad it will be when the democrats sincerery, genuinely have control of the house. i ...

Elements in their party now pulling them away from common sense solutions like enhanced border security. nobody with a straight face can tell us that our border isnt working. brian: they are telling you this even though they are on the record of doing other things. the game you are in right now the president really has no leverage because the republican present the plan for a vote. didnt even get through with the 5 billion. couldnt even get through the house. >> let people see that the president...

Said. this listen. >> the white house could back down from its demand for $5 billion in border wall funding in this year-end spending bill. if thats true, it means the democrats can get pretty much what they want and block anything they dont want simply by promising to shut down the government. because thats whats on the table. the ironic thing about this is polling data is finally starting to show even in the a.p. that government shut downs have lost their impact in terms of benefiting the demo...