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Don. >> pamela, standby. i want to bring fareed back in. "the new york times" is reporting that following an early morning raid, muellers team told manafort they plan to indict him. >> you know i think that muellers team is clearly trying to figure out where it can find the sort of maximum leverage. and one of the things you often do in these kind of situations is you let somebody know that basically they violated the law. the prosecutors think thats a very likely prospect. in the hope you get c...

Working with gop where congress failed on repeal and replacement. obama worked to pass that bill. donald trump made a few phone calls, gave a speech or two, come of which wasnt great. he did not work this. we need the trump white house to work hand and glove with congress. that didnt happen this time. >> paul, weve seen spicer and priebus purnged from the white house. is there anybody left to fill the role with the president? >> there is mike pence. hes a highly regarded guy. he havent seen him ...

Dont they have more control over what happens here, at least in terms of the government? >> iran has a lot of influence. thats part of what has been motivating maliki. and one of the reasons maliki didnt want to sign the status of forces agreement with america, which would have kept american troops in iraq in small numbers was the iranians told them they didnt want it. i heard that from several shia politicians in iraq who said this deal is never going to happen because iran doesnt want it. so t...

The reason why this is a suckers deal is. this its quite simple. the only reason that the iranys are at the table the economic sanctions are so strict and harsh right now that the regime stability is threatened. the only way iran would ever give up nukes, ever, is if the regime has a sense that it is threatened. thats the only thing that would stop them. and they are now beginning to worry about economic instability in the country. here we are at a point of maximum leverage. what does this so-ca...

Not about the afghan people, we are talking about our own government. what you are describing, does that cost lives? >> i think ultimately there was a cost in lives. look, the cost is that we have 90,000 troops here today. they are fighting incredibly hard, serving honorably, they deserve the best washington in supporting them. the other big problem was -- the first group of troops we sent largely to parts of the country that werent as important as other places. i detailed this in the book. how ...

Insisting on a daca fix but that ship has sailed. now democrats have decided that they are going -- theyre not going to back down on this shutdown issue until they figure out a way to get to secure a vote on an a broader immigration plan involving the d.r.e.a.m.ers. its really difficult for them to accept a handshake or an informal agreement and oh, yeah well have a vote when this is their point of maximum leverage. moderate republicans who are working on this as well have to be able to secure a...

You really have to worry about jon. jenna: great information for us as always, adam. jon: at least my kids are older now. big battles with congress may be in the presidents future over everything from his nominee for defense secretary to the debt ceiling. not to mention the very hot-button issues of gun control and immigration reform. some say the president might actually be itching for the fights. joining us now juan williams, fox news political analyst. is he spoiling for a fight here, juan? >...