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Important plan to get the wall funded. the wall funding planning is something that custom border patrol officials think they need. >> you think its worth it? >> yes. see heres the thing, my concern, i dont know what the leverage is going to be from the administration. having funded so many other appropriations bills that the military will be funded, people getting entitlement checks will be funded, parks will stay open. all those things that are important for everyday americans will continue to ...

Prince. >> it seems to me that the white house and president trump have mistakenly believed that saudi arabia has leverage over us and the crown prince is fundamentally reflecting american interests. in fact, everything is crown prince touches he crescrews up. he kidnapped the prime minister. he confronted and created this crisis to hurt quatar. it pushed them closer to iran. now he, i believe, ordered the killing of jamal to silence criticism and in fact created this huge uproar which i hope wi...

The date because you want that leverage, that incentive hanging over the cooperator. a lot of times we would set a sentencing date and adjourn it and adjourn it and adjourn it. this judge seems like he wants to get it done. i do think they have big plans for him. >> m.j., cohen is a man doing a lot of talking. he also has been meeting with mueller investigators for hours in the last several weeks and months perhaps since he was initially given that plea deal in august on other charges. this is a...

To a saudi prince for a reported $20 million, and that same saudi prince chipped in for a $300 million bailout of another trump investment, the plaza hotel in manhattan in 1995. >> so this is a man who has always looked to the saudis for money, so who has leverage over whom here? we have to really ask a serious question about whether a foreign entity has leverage over the united states president in a way that we have never seen before. >> reporter: the trump organization has promised to donate t...

Obamacare, that will be the law of the land. how is that working out? keep your dr. plan and pay less. remember the crumbs they were so upset about? your paycheck, your paycheck will get smaller. and of course they want to abolish ice, forget about the border wall but they just dont want to tell you. but you dont have to take my word for it, just listen to nancy pelosi. shes measuring the drapes to her brand-new office. take a look. >> its an interesting dynamic when you have the gavel. it just ...

Republicans to turn that phrase and do political jujitsu, people know exactly how the swamp is going to affect them, if we let this blue wave rise. the thing is, it is not an inevitability that this blue wave is going to hit. what people need to know, laura, is that if they do not drain the swamp and use their voices and votes, were all going to drown in it. >> laura: im sure you have a lot to say about what we just heard, dana. but adam schiff in the "washington post" said the following. there ...

How is that working out? keep your doctor, plan, and pay less.. remember the crumbs they were so upset about? your paycheck, your paycheck will get smaller. and of course they want to abolish i.c.e., forget about the border wall but they just dont want to tell you. but you dont have to take myor word for it, just listen to nancy pelosi. shes measuring the drapes to her brand-new office. take a look.nc >> its an interesting dynamick. when you have the gavel. it just makes all the difference in th...

Border!" >> harris: reporting that unmarked data in 80% rise in ill crossings since the trump administration ended the zero tolerance border policy. brian, what is happening? >> brian: 4,000 people heading to your southern border, this is the kind of thing when you call home you have somebody answer and you say, did you see 4,000 people heading for the southern border? that is an army amassing. thats not how we should view this, but i get why this is such an important issue to people whom i will...

Saudi arabia was more of a -- i dont want to use the word vassal state but relied on your security. due to the last ten year, the war in iraq, the amount of money that they can get from oil, they can buy their security now from russia which wants to step in, weapons systems from china and they generally tend to spread out those purchases throughout nato nations but now our leverage is going to go out to the window to a certain extent. if we stop selling them bombs, the russians will run right in...

Incremental pressure. what is your view? >> well, i mean i think that there is very mild progress, i mean, you know, okay, it certainly is good that steve mnuchin isnt going to the investment conference, but at the end of the day, you dont see the u.s. clearly pursuing some kind of an investigation that will get the truth. you know, calling on the sought dis to spend a few more days investigating when this would essentially involve the crown prince investigating himself is a nonstarter and we st...