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Headline from the president. i got to say conventional wisdom says the government shutdown is toxic politics for republicans but this president has always turned conventional wisdom on its ear. i think theres some political benefit to tell the american voters take a stand for something and you stand for something as important as border security, national security, enforcing immigration laws and one other thing, keep your promises, this president is trying to keep his promise and you cant get coo...

Trade agreement with us so that then when we go into the fight with china, about what theyre doing to our goods, how theyre stealing our intellectual property were in a much stronger position. the danger here is trump is picking trade fights with our allies at the same time hes doing with china, which gives him much less leverage and leaves us much more vulnerable. the rest of the world could gang up on us. >> hes not getting the europe even union, angela merck toll join had nim a concerted -- >...

Undesirable. cant do it. >> you go across the map and north korea where the president stepped away from the photo opp with kim jong-un and within dayed declared north korea no longer a nuclear threat. they continue to produce fissile material, the secretary of state testified to that, they continue to produce ballistic missiles, perhaps a warhead could be attached to the missiles that could reach the united states. is there ever a moment to trust north korea? it seems that the president of the u...

And every decision that he makes is through the prism of does this empower me, and that is dangerous for us, because when he needs to work against us or needs to demagogue us or blame us for things hell work against our interests. >> what youre saying and what a lot of other foreign policy leaders are saying is, we cant tell erdogan to go to hell because there are some strategic ways that erdogan and turkey still help the united states. >> yes, and he has a huge amount of leverage on europe with...

Whether or not a message has been sent back. weve heard about back channels the administration likes to have. we dont know if theres a pardon deal on the table or if thats been mentioned. at this point, i feel like he keeps his mouth shut and moves forward. this is a paper case. it will be easy to prove. i expect hes going to be convicted of it, and at the end of the day, hes looking at a long time in jail if, in fact, trump doesnt come in and give him a pardon? . >> are you insinuating theres f...

Been sent back. weve heard about back channels the administration likes to have. we dont know if theres a pardon deal on the table or if thats been mentioned. at this point, i feel like he keeps his mouth shut and moves forward. this is a paper case. it will be easy to prove. i expect hes going to be convicted of it, and at the end of the day, hes looking at a long time in jail if, in fact, trump doesnt come in and give him a pardon? . >> are you insinuating theres fear about -- you said he was ...

Theyre trying to figure out messaging and they are also concerned about how this is going to play out because once again, just as jim sciutto said, there are connections to russia for paul manafort and this tax evasion, all the things going on, and his partner is very key in telling the story in this courtroom. >> all right. rick, youve been sitting by patiently. lets bring you in now. do you think the start of the manafort trial is one reason why were seeing tweet after tweet from the president...

From the president and rudy giulianis really confusing interviews? >> i think this manic performance you saw from rudy this week and the tweet gasm trump has had to throw as much stuff into the wind as he possibly can are both directly related to the fact that robert mueller has a very strong case against paul manafort here, and they recognize that the charges against manafort are leverage to have manafort speak about the things he knows concerning donald trumps campaign ties and donald trumps p...

Or the e.u. who has more leverage the country currently harbors about three and a half million refugees from syria alone to air to one they are not only a responsibility they are also a trump card one that he can use against europe whenever he wants. damascus and its suburbs after seven long years of fight. its back under control. people here still live in fear there are checkpoints. and the secret services are never far away and in the wars aftermath colors daily life ali is a civil servant he ...

>> harris: sarah sanders taking a lot of questions, use our reporters there. i want to bring in the power panel. as a former republican congresswoman, a political science professor. i will begin with just your reaction to what we just saw. >> the press as usual focuses on issues that are most exciting to them instead of on the most important issues for the american people which are in fact how is the president going to continue managing this economic boom, what implications might his tariff c...