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Security? >> emily: people dying from drug overdoses. get out of here. we are playing with money. the government shutdown is a threat? i disagree with that leverage. >> juan: trump said mexico. >> greg: i have another compromise. build the wall of accordion style. have it up half the year and the other half, off to the side. >> dana: why? >> greg: the people who dont want the wall dont have the wall. its an accordion wall and you pull it out. its almost like joint custody in reverse. >> juan: ar...

The point is well taken. and i think that we really need to look at it with a broader view there are many different ways our relationship between the united states and mexico can improve where were helping the american economy and help the american taxpayer. >> sandra: it is fascinating the oval office meeting the other day, not too far from our memories. it was a big moment to see nancy pelosi, chuck schumer and the president in the oval office hashing out trying to negotiate with the cameras r...

And apply it to the wall. its not how to economic policy plays out. youre completely right. theres zero appetite for a shutdown on capitol hill. just none. theres usually been somebody who is gunning for it. ted cruz when there was a fight over the aca. liberal democrats who were pushing their caucus to take a stand earlier this year over this very issue. the reality is republicans dont seem to have a way out of it. nobody does. theres no game plan. theres no end game. while i keep asking everyb...

Pelosi was really tough, or theyre going to say you dont have the votes for your wall? >> heres the thing, they are in charge. it is ryans party in charge of the house, the senate and the white house. so nancy pelosis message to the president is you dont have the vote but you have the ability to get this done. if youve got the votes, you dont need us. >> and you have more leverage in january. so if it shuts down democrats have more leverage in january. so any deal we get can only be as conservat...

Floor. were waiting to see who will blink here. >> ive been talking to some of the presidents allies. you raise the issue of leverage and they dont think he has a whole lot because of the russia investigation and democrats are about to take over the house. the do you get the sense theres republican who is are willing to go to the mat for him on this? >> theres a couple who are out there publicly saying they are glad he took a stand. lindsey graham is one of them. i think hes making those comment...

Couple of the other strings on this besides maria butina, right? >> well, look, he was influential figure in the duma in putins party. hes been under -- he was under investigation for years for money laundering but spanish national police almost arrested him until he got tipped off and didnt attend the birthday party of a gang leader there so there were a lot of reasons for the feds to be suspicious about him from the get go, but what happened here is starting in 2015 they launched this thing ca...

Everyone heard cohen was first pleading guilty and was in a cooperative stance. people had high hopes. they say think of the cases he could break open. i think after todays sentencing, in my mind its unlikely that his continued cooperation would be significant. thats for a few reasons. one, its harder to use a cooperating witness after theyve been sentenced because your leverage over them has been weakened and, two, the southern district of new york went out pretty far on a limb in saying he had...

That stand on principle and stand up for what they believe in. he has campaigned at every turn saying that he wants border security. and i think, you know, most of the time our construct is, oh, my gosh, you dont want to shut down. whos going to get blamed? when you suddenly remove that leverage, thats going to be a two-week story, a one-week story. the president knows hes going to change the narrative about 85 times in the next two weeks. what he wants is a 20/20 construct, which is one of thes...

Help. in some ways, that is the most clear thing that we see unfolding over the course of -- >> you think they knew? you think the trump folks knew or they were being played? >> well, so thats the thing that we just dont know yet is the extent to which the trump campaign was actively involved in this conspiracy or was simply just willing to accept the help wherever it was coming from. and that is something that, you know, should not be lost on this. this is approaching, as i said in a piece earl...

Campaign was actively involved in this conspiracy or was simply just willing to accept the help wherever it was coming from. and that is something that, you know, should not be lost on this. this is approaching, as i said in a piece earlier this week, the worst-case scenario that we could have for the united states, that this was a case where a foreign power, a foreign adversary had leverage over the head of state of the united states because they knew that the president had been lying about the...