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Democrat side of the isle believe border security is important. >> democrats feel they have leverage and are not willing to budge at this point. >> they dont have the vote to pass the presidents proposal. $5 billion, whatever it for the wall. so, i dont know why -- nothing is going to change in that regard. i dont know why we just, just dont proceed to keep government open so people can be home for the holidays and enjoying all of. that. >> there are several ideas being floated around the halls ...

Kind of see whats happening here. you have the justice department ambushing general flynn, while as been highlighted repeatedly same justice department making sure that fbi wasnt investigating the clinton foundation in any serious way. >> number one when she lost power and when she lost the election man did clinton foundation pay the price. they are in 62.9 million dollars in 2016 they raised it i should say. in 2017, that went down to 26.6. thats a 58% decrease well it is logical some would say...

This. when the democrats take control of the house soon and you, as expected, become chair of the judiciary committee, obviously you have all sorts of leverage that you never had before. but with the senate still under republican control, with the administration still under control of the republican white house, how do you strategize how to be most effective especially on an acute accountability issue like this when you may not have any sympathy across the aisle? >> well, there are a number of t...

And in all sorts of circumstances. in this case, that would seem to hit in excess with the sheer issue of competence. once you have taken somebody into u.s. federal government custody for any reason in any circumstances, those people become the responsibility of the u.s. federal government. >> its more than competence. its total disregard. you dont give a damn. thats what this shows. >>ing you said that secretary nielsen will be called to answer for this. when the democrats take control of the h...

Spending. i want to bring in "the wall street journal"s reporter rebecca ball house. first of all, tell us what you and your colleagues are leverage. how did this start? this is a criminal investigation? >> so what we suns that this investigation came out of federal prosecutors in manans investigation of michael cohen. we understand that in their raid of cohen hes hotel room and office and home earlier this year in april, they seized, among other things, a recording of a conversation that he had...

Precedent. it seems to be suggesting if someone violates u.s. law, maybe we can close our eyes and kind of put the issue aside if we can get the country to buy more soy beans or open their market to autos. in addition, i think it really complicates the trade negotiations. theyre complicated enough. chinas kept these issues so far with the united states on separate lanes and now sending the signal to china that its kind of all on the table and maybe it can all get muddled up, i think this can com...

The leverage and are not going to budge. its up to the president to do so and nobody knows the president is willing to. john? >> we will wait to see if he blinks or has a counter proposal. heres one of the reasons the president is doing this in the sense that look, he has been on two issues very consistent. trade and immigration. for all his roller coasters, hes pretty consistent. after this election, the republicans got shellac and lost control of the house. he trying to think about reelection ...

Huawei ceo if it meant success on the trade deal. >> reporter: given he denied knowledge of the arrest across the table at the g20 hammering out the trade truce. on the same day, a darling of chinas tech industry, the daughter of the founder of huawei arrested in canada at the instruction of the united states. of course, in china they are saying she is a political pawn. she is being used and kidnapped, essentially, for the u.s. to gain leverage in the trade war. when the president makes a commen...

Republic of ireland member state and so what she is seeking here in brussels is a legal guarantee that this backstop will only come into force if really the case of a of a hard border would be on the agenda if there is a real threat and so that the e.u. does not use the backstop to i hold the u.k. hostage because what she has negotiated is that the backs up essentially is not just northern ireland that will remain in the customs union in parts of the internal markets to guarantee no hard border ...

The way was the united states -- he lives in the united states. >> he wasnt an american. the >> adrienne: but still, he lived in the united states. the fact that he has sided with the prince, thats where we have to -- he could actually use this as leverage to have a little bit more play with saudi arabia. >> katie: let me get in here because they want to give some perspective on where we are with saudi arabia and iran. a year ago tomorrow, nikki haley gave a big presentation to reporters in fron...