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Midterms. now youre basically at the finish line. as the president going to sit down and answer questions recycle all going to be written? what it does by pointing whitaker to oversee it, it gives leverage to the president. it signals to robert mueller that i am in charge. i have more control than you do. lets wrap it up based on what whitaker has said in writing and in the past. people call him a political operative. i understand why. i think the next two months, were going to see the end of th...

Of that. in terms of rod rosenstein, hes the deputy attorney general. he was not moved up. matt whitaker was bold and which is an odd succession for sessions. >> jesse: they sidelined rod and put whitaker at the top. so when the mueller report comes in, it goes to whitaker. it doesnt go to rod. whoever gets this report, they can disclose whatever they want. they can keep it close to the vest. they could disclose everything. its really up to whitaker to do what he sees fit with this report from r...

Up at the table during the budget negotiation. the president offered on immigration and there is no democratic bill they can point to that they would have passed. i think the president is willing to play ball and play game and well see how it goes. they will still do all these investigations. that is part of their leverage. >> bill: well see his attitude this morning. jason chaffetz: >> sandra: we continue to look at election results in texas. senator ted cruz wins reelection after a battle with...

Thats is where republican have shown their true colours. they want less people. they tried to limit the election. >> lets but brad and widen the lens a little bit. with the big picture you worked in the george w bush white house. whats your advice to president trump about dealing with divided government as we move forward? >> initially if i were the president i would call for congress to continue to be in session over the holiday period. we have a majority. dont squander the majority, while you ...

We are back. democrats may have won back control of the house, but president trump didnt wait until they actually took control to fire jeff sessions. so what, if anything, could congressional democrats do to protect special counsel robert mueller in his investigation before january 3rd when they officially take power? a democrat from illinois won re-election and isco chair of the democratics committee and may be running for something else. congresswoman, first of all, crawls on your getting re-e...

Lets say he wins the house. how huge a blow is it for the democrats sm. >> its huge. in the immediate next congress they have the same lack of leverage. they dont control committee chairmanships. in either house. the president can get the bills passed through with his own party. with a limited amount of issues. the other thing is that democrats looking towards 2020 have to say wait a second. we have been planning on having this as ron brownstein says the coalition come out. focus op white women ...

Chairman schiff and now they can investigate these queries into the white house, the presidents inner circle a little further than the white house has gone. and not a lot is going to get done because theres a republican president and potentially, lets not get ahead of ourselves, a divided congress. but if democrats have the house, itll be like they have a goalie to block a republican congress from doing anything. >> i see two dynamics youve got to be careful about. one is the tea party dynamic h...

It wasnt -- if it wasnt lifted, although were trying to make that case. >> but mr. prime minister, some see this as the moment of l leverage before the potential signing date, before theres a new mexican government in power. this is your moment where you could say, mr. president, if you dont lift these steel and aluminum tariffs, were not going to sign it. any chance that happens? >> one of the things that served me very well through the 13 months of negotiations over the new nafta was that i do...

Continued frustration. what a tariff is is a way of hiking prices on your own domestic consumers. so consumers in the united states are paying more for canadian steel and aluminum than they otherwise would. we have ran into retaliatory tariffs meaning we are paying more for bourbon and ketchup. we would much rather have genuine free trade with the united states, so we are going to continue to work as soon as we can to lift those tariffs. but we are not at the point of saying we wouldnt sign if i...

Just days before secretary of state mike pompeo meets kims top intelligence official in new york, north koreas foreign ministry warns the regime could start building up its nuclear forces again if the u.s. doesnt ease sanctions on north korea. >> north korea always before a meeting tries to gain leverage by perhaps issuing threatening language or insinuating a threat. you know, that said, we dont want to just dismiss it as negotiating rhetoric. it does reflect their position. it also reflects th...