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Perspective, look, this is his last best chance to get a border wall done. congress, he has a republican congress for another month and if he can get them to act now, he has a greater chance of doing that than trying to get a democratic house and republican senate to get together and provide border wall funding next year or in the next congress. i think thats not lost on the president. i think taking drastic measures showing how much that he cares about it right now to try to get something done ...

Not the same capacity as president trump is suggesting. >> right. i think it just speaks to the hypocrisy in effect that people are running on issues that they can gain power and votes from and not really concerned about the american people. if they can gain leverage from saying one thing this year, this election cycle they will say it if they say something differential next year they will say it president trump is on the right path by addressing the issue and obviously the american people spoke...

This situation. so, there is an article in bloomberg this week that said that americans are feeling about 4.5% of that 25% tariff that we have imposed. but china and its consumers and its companies are bearing about 20% of that. i think if the president wants to do is give a little bit more time and make sure we have as much leverage as possible before we go into negotiations. premature to go to the table. if its one thing the president knows how to do its get a good job. steve: leverage over co...

Election like this. >> you have drawn the attention of the folks over at the republican national committee. they put out a press release today. the subject line is who will break their pelosi promise. and they put you in a category of this, an actual category. they said you were a part of the "i am going to avoid the question because of how deeply unpopular pelosi is in my district caucus." it was referring to this idea would you support nancy pelosi for speaker of the house. are you planning to...

Might have. when you announce you will have a shutdown, seems youll be blamed for it. the second is the democrats have a mandate coming out of 2018 midterm elections. they won control of the house. hundreds of state legislative races. it seems as though the american people wanted change aw donald trumps policy. that would be another reason why if there were a shutdown and i doubt there would be that they would get blamed. third and finally is republicans tend to get blamed for government shutdow...

Him. >> rick, he had his chance to get his border wall. feels like a year ago now. at one point chuck schumer said he would give him the funding in exchange for protections for daca. he had control of the house and senate. the border wall still didnt happen. whats the likelihood that it happens going forward with the democrats now controlling the house? >> nil. almost zero. here trump is announcing a shutdown. taking away any leverage he

Though congress has been able to fund for a longer term period, many parts of the u.s. government, but they did not get it all done, and thats where this threat of a shutdown could come into play. it would not be for the entire government, but would be for portions of it, but it gives the president a bit of leverage because he would have to sign any short-term spending gap that the congress would try to put through in order to avoid a shutdown, which we have seen as politically bad for everyone....

Crown prince of saudi arabia? obviously hes done it before with vladimir putin over the russian intelligence. but in this case whats the harm? >> well, i think its terrible, terrible commentary about our moral standing in the world and the way this is going to be looked at. and the presidents, i think, disingenuous if not dishonest false choice here, if we condemn mbs, if we sanction saudi, somehow theyre going to turn against us. theyre not going to do that. we have far more leverage over them ...

In fact, you cant even call them chicks with [ bleep ]s anymore. [ laughter ] no. no. you have to call them men who talk too much. >> theres been so many dirty jokes so you cant do cliched [ bleep ] joke that everybody has heard before, cliche big pussy joke. you better do something fresh and new that nobodys ever talked about before. >> most women wont let their husbands watch when theyre going through a miscarriage. i sat my husband down in front of me while i sat on the toilet and i was like,...

To run. there is not an alternative right now. i believed i had to use the leverage at i had at the moment to advance my perspectives. finally after a decade and a half, doing a trillion dollar infrastructure work that will put america back to work and create demand in the steel industry and the construction trades and the supplying materials industry. so im a politician. my vote is my legislative tool, and i used that to advance two very, very important public policy objectives. we will have ne...