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Remember what happened back when newt gingrich got blamed, and ev eventually voted out because of the shutdown. >> well, shutdowns only have the leverage of who is blamed and as you can see, as donna pointed out the nancy pelosi and chuck schumer established the fact and repeatedly that they do not want to shut down the government and gave the president option, and by chuck schumers own account, he has called for the shutdown 20times, and by the time he left the meeting it was called for six tim...

Now over user privacy and political bias. lets start with that high drama in washington, d.c. over government funding. nbc news learned in advance of her meeting with the president, house speaker in waiting nancy pelosi has told her caucus democrats have the leverage and wont budge. that meeting happening between president trump, pelosi and senate democratic leader chuck schumer. thats going to be any moment now. it is the first big meeting between pelosi and trump since the midterms. possibly...

What exactly is the white house demanding here, and what are republicans willing to go along with him on? >> sure. heres what were talking about specifically, steve. the bot 2078 litom line is werg at seven spending bills that need to be dealt with before the end of the year. six have already been negotiated. theyre almost entirely noncontroversial. the seventh deals with department of homeland security. in it would be that money for the wall, if republicans can get it through. so democrats have...

There were some petty jabs taken back and forth in the course of the time that they were together. the president threatening to shutdown the government if democrats dont give him the money that he has been demanding here, andrea. >> and kasie hunt, the democrats are in a bind as well. they think they have raul of the leverage, but everyone knows that if there is a government shutdown, usually the pouparty power will take a hit. >> well, they felt they took the hit the last time, and that was rel...

Leverage over donald trump over the last two years. that even if the american people didnt know that donald trump had been pursuing this trump tower moscow deal, russia did. and that they knew that the trump administration was lying to the american people about that. beyond that, we see these michael flynn telephone calls that he lied to the public about as well. and its clear from those 16 contacts that there was an expensive and extensive effort by russian intelligence through russian intellig...

Conversations were more serious and that they directly involved the office of vladimir putin. >> on that point, garrett, so we can highlight it. its a lot for people to digest. compromising information doesnt have to be salacious. michael flynns lies about conversations during the transition and knowledge of lies by itself, is it not, potentially compromising information? >> not only is it potentially, thats precisely what a foreign intelligence operation would try to instill. youve covered nati...

Were now nearing a, quote, worst case scenario. inside robert muellers fbi and global war on terror, and samantha vinograd, senior adviser on security at the obama administration. garrett, we dont have muellers report, but you say the country is already approaching the worst case scenario when it comes to russia. why is that? >> from a counterintelligence perspective, the worst case samario is to have a foreign power have leverage over your head of state, for them to have some sort of intelligen...

Was already dealing with somebody who had a sufficient kremlin connection. >> number six is compromise -- i think people think its a typical word, think they of intelligence dirt there, but if you think about it another way, if you think about it as leverage then you think again, we are squarely into that scenario. explain why. >> yeah. this is where we have been very focused on this in the context of the steele dossier and some of the more salacious compromises could be on the president and his...

Trust president trump to do right by the daca pieces. there is no amount of border security you will commit to. >> they think they have more leverage. i would not be an optimist, but hopefully i will be wrong. >> negative campaign ads make him want to take a shower. can you run a positive campaign in 2020. is that your future president? g. when you buy one of the latest sumsung phones you get a free 50" samsung 4k tv. seriously, no! [announcer]seriously! t-mobile is giving you a free 50" tv. you...

Multi-pronged operation targeting donald trumps campaign and his transition. those 14 contacts that you previously mentioned across the campaign. and that we are now thoroughly into the territory where donald trump should have realized this and may have been an active contributor and part of this active conspiracy. the only real question left is how deep the conspiracy goes and just how much the trump campaign was involved. and what were beginning to see even is hints that were at least into tha...