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Opponents shut down the government and the president taking responsibility is violating the first rule of winning a shutdown fight. i hope he reconsiders, i think it would be the smart move politically, but he has to bear in mind that his leverage goes down in the beginning of the new year because suddenly hes not dealing with house republicans, hes dealing with house democrats and they are not going to want to give him a nickel in border funding or wall funding when they take those gavels next ...

Price the hotel charged, the trump hotel charged the trump inaugural committee during planning. the article says a top inaugural planner e-mailed ivanka with concerns that the hotel was overcharging for its event spaces and worried that what may happen when this was audited. how does that picture play into the wider picture of the scandal surrounding the trump administration? >> so i think one thing we know prosecutors are looking at is how these countries, including russia, attempted to influen...

They call compromising material. so to the extent that the president is not being truthful publically, not being truthful to the american people, not being truthful to our foreign interlocutors overseas and the russians know this. potentially, that gives them a way of exerting leverage over the president. so its a dangerous practice. i mean, all presidents have at times not been completely truthful or distorted the truth. but nothing on the scale of this one. >> director james clapper, a pleasur...

Notes she was not happy. >> and a reminder to our viewers, sally yates is the person who went to the white house and said michael flynn is lying to the vice president and now that could be a potential liability. the russians could have some leverage over this white house, as a result. evan, as we get this information, these documents from robert muellers team, we do understand theres a mystery grand jury also convening in washington. >> right. there is a mystery that is before the grand jury. th...

Government and big business away from each other. and one of the reasons that i have fought by whole career against corporate welfare, grants from government to business, is you create a situation like this where the government has leverage over companies. we dont want -- look, i love donald trump, but mr. president, its not appropriate for you to bully companies and say we dont want washington or the white house to dictate where american company locates its plants or when it can close down a pl...

Street journal" and byron york from "the washington examiner". byron, your first time on the a-team. good to have you here this morning. >> bill: he is always on our a-team big time. >> sandra: usually you are on the 9:00 hour. if you could, youve been writing about this and now heard from michael cohen since his sentencing. your thoughts this morning. >> i dont think it affects things all that much. all of this talk were doing this morning is about michael cohen and this campaign finance violat...

Mexico paying for everything metals his message on the need for congressional funding for the wall and could give them less leverage as he pushes democrats to yield and approve money for the barrier. >> is an is the president said i will take the mantle for the wall this lost traction in the house of representatives where they talked about moving a $5 billion bill for the wall sending that to the senate and then blaming chuck schumer saying this is the schumer shutdown, cough up 9 democratic vot...

On this issue yesterday. >> if the president really believes what he tweeted this morning, his new nafta would pay for the pal, he wouldnt be threatening to shut down the government. it is not a serious proposal. it is a throwaway idea the president used in the campaign and still uses to fire up his base. >> sandra: you mentioned that oval office exchange and there were some stunning moments. one of them stunning even to members of the presidents own party when he said he would be proud to shut ...

The senate so nancy pelosi is right in that respect and theres -- as we speculated on monday before the blowup in oval office on tuesday wheres the presidents leverage on this? do republicans let them out dry for last two years? i dont see the leverage. heres nancy pelosi last night. >> have government closed forever? i mean, with whats this about? i know he doesnt believe in government i know he doesnt know that much about what is at risk to shut it down. but ting that it would be, lets not tal...

Through the process that every legal person who has residency in this country has to go through. part of that is making sure you have a background checked on. im comfortable with that. im a pro-immigration, but if we somehow upset that process, we are putting people at risk, and that is a big mistake. democrats have to really look inward, first of all, nancy pelosi has nothing to do with any of this. she is not even the speaker yet, the new democratic majority isnt in place until january. this i...