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Position thinks he would be surprised if charges came down. i dont think there is any special knowledge of charges. >> doesnt it hurt his leverage? with prosecutors if he has to -- if he is going to try to cut himself a deal, he will cooperate with you if you are lenient with me. i will tell you what i know. it will cost me lots of things. but if youll treat me better because im going to tell you what i know, lets work out a deal. he would seem to be hurting his own leverage in those discussions...

Who will it be in 2020? i forbid them to think about that. i say dont think about that. you got to think about 2018. think about your district, your state. think about this election coming up. because as mark said, there needs be and has been this sort of grassroots democratic organizing, has been going on, some excellent candidates out there that have been -- that have come out of nowhere. a lot of them former military. a lot of them interesting, not your stereotypical democratic candidates out...

You are seeing them move more toward trade and not nato. >> and there is a somehow they are ripping americans off, and that is working with the base, but bill is right, it is not working on the trade, but the big lie of the administration when they said that america f s first is not america alone and people are realizing that america first is america alone, and there are economic consequences to that and while you mayt not feel them today, h america alone without allies means that the next time ...

Will vote for whomever trump nominates, and they keep their powder dry and keep their leverage for as long as they can to execute what is the second part of that strategy, that is to pick off that one republican vote they need. i think youll see them making this argument and arguments about roe versus wade and preserving health care. whether any of those can be successful, you know, i think that depends on how the hearing goes and whether something disqualifying comes out about one of these cand...

Risk of something going wrong and i -- >> thats true, this is a dangerous game, thats right. >> i mean, if it were clear what the strategy is, i think maybe the markets and people in the markets would be more comfortable -- >> i agree, youll have trouble today. the stock market and dow for the year is a little flat after being up 30% since the election. theres worry that the president will slam the brakes on the progress if this trade dispute gets out of control. history is rife with good intent...

Background but not the central issue. i think it will now shift to become more the central issue because what the new president can do about violence will be slow if hes able to do anything at all. but his first encounters with president trump will be pretty notable because theyll be coming at a moment where the president is making his decision about nafta, which he said he wont make until right after the election. and its because the president clearly is going to move ahead with at least the rh...

All right. among the stories breaking this afternoon, a federal judge today ordered former national security adviser michael flynn to attend a hearing and lawyers explain why robert muellers team to delay the sentencing. lets bring in the experts and analysts. jeffrey toobin first. does this mean, jeffrey, theyre squeezing more information out of michael flynn? >> well, it means they still need him and it means he might be testifying in the grand jury or trial an they want the leverage of his se...

Everything from steel products, 25% steel tariffs and maple syrup and coffee. we talk about cars, thats the ril big game globally. >> and when we look at that big game, you have canada and european union threatening even more. this is really in a lot of ways a high stakes game of chicken and the president is negotiating, right, hes not going to blink. >> i agree with that but yet when do you get to the point where you may have to think about blinking? how far do you think president trump will go...

Size of the american economy gives president trump almost all of the leverage here. >> what about globally. obviously we can talk about north america here but on a broader scale, what could this president elect mean for mexico? >> well, you know, were seeing more of the wave of populism and the question is, what form it takes in mexico and taken a left of center candidate. i thought it was sort of interesting that he moved more to the center in this election than he had in sort of previous bids....

Swing voters? >> its a very simple binary choice. you are either for a sovereign nation that has a border or you are for open borders. and a lot of the crime that comes with that. and the call for the abolition of ice in my view is the intersection of arrogance and ignorance. its also all of these people preening for leverage in 2020. really, folks? what exactly have you done in 2018 or 2017, for that matter, that you are worried about 2020? have you got smarter, i think, more senior democrats l...