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Era which is about turn-out and base politics, why would you not want someone who knows their way around, is clearly skilled fundraiser and can make things work there. the case against her seems to me to be almost the kind of facile one. >> paul kane, whats your take on that? >> what do you make of this last-minute bipartisan problem-solvers caucus, little rebellion, which is different nan the previous rebellion. >> the problem-solvers are this group of republicans and democrats, who are trying ...

Either in early or in late. to get the most leverage and theyre looking to be the late-comers. >> the last-minute? >> yeah. erica warner one thing she has done is a lot of the new women members who had said on the trail they were going to vote against her, some of them have changed their tune slightly. she seems to have done a good job of convincing them that its important that we keep a woman in this job. >> she as we all watched her do what she is best at, which is lock up support for somethin...

To why? >> for one thing, kasie, she doesnt seem terribly worried about that. she didnt then and she doesnt now. she understands leverage and she understands she doesnt have quite as much of it as she did before. other people are testing their own leverage. its that season to dole out favors and, whats notable is when people are coming into talk to her. the one thing theyre not saying is, im going to run against you. no one has done that thats a very, very notable omission. i mean given that hea...

Right there right now and somebody will have to process them either taken in by mexico to fill those jobs are the united states will have to find a way to deal with them. >> this is a area of potential commonality mexico doesnt want the massive caravans to disruptively coming in across the country. certainly it would be best to address that crime and poverty in central american countries but that is difficult president trump of course, tries to use the us leverage of foreign aid with those of gu...

There is no agreement in mexico how to handle the asylum-seekers can the president maintain that position there is likely to be litigation. it is unclear really where that goes. what is interesting with the deal with mexico is that apparently it stepped forward to say they can work in mexico and stay in mexico while the claims are adjudicated that would have limited the apparent border issue. but what president trump does in response he has said us border may be closed certainly that would be le...

Lets hear it. if not, lets move on. paul: once again the flake footnote. senator jeff flake, a lame-duck on his way says he will hold up votes on judges unless he gets a vote on the mueller protection. >> and his leverage in the committee to do that but i think basically, this is an unconstitutional provision. you cannot tell the president not to fire someone who is inferior officer. >> when has that ever stopped anyone in politics? [ácustomá you know, jeff flake surely knows that. this not re...

Now its the sciu that mobilize people. democrats are much better at it than republicans, and we thought we would learn. the other thing in these very close races where we lost some good people, weve got this missing 4-5, the so-called deplorable, the trump base, whatever. they were there, but now theres going to be a great discussion where do you, pick up the missig 5% that would have won you some of these good senate seats. is it to appeal to the african-american community and say i think trump...

Investigation into the presidents political decisions, it looks like, it will be an investigation on several fronts it looks like into his personal financial records. thats something that we have not seen the republicans touch really at all as they have controlled congress the past two years. >> so, shawn, are you saying that the democrats can call for the presidents personal finances and get those records, taxes, and other corporate records? can they do that? >> well, certainly with the power o...

Theyve caught. and one technique is if they catch you in that small lie, now theyve got some leverage to say hey, we can charge you with false statements. >> does this make it look like the net is getting wider in your view or is the scope getting more narrow? >> i actually think it shows us how wide the net was cast. its hard for us to tell because theyve been so quiet about it. i think it was cast very widely and were gipping to see just how far it has been cast. i think theres still kind of c...

A probably not much different from the assessment of her that is over there in london her chances are seen as slim at the moment but of course you never know whats going to happen in a take it or leave it situation where you know that the only alternative if you dont take it will or probably will be a hard braggs it so unclear but really what is the you to do is her thats the only person really they could talk to they have to talk to the u.k. government of course they cant really take into accou...