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Republicans coming. >> normally isnt. we look at precedent like judy talked about. you have to go back to 2002 when the incumbent party didnt lose eats. >> molly: it happened to president obama when he lost the house and the senate. now the shoe is on the other foot. were talking about the mid-terms so much, were more than 200 days away it from. weve been talking about it for six months. heres whats going to happen. after theyre over and you have thanksgiving and christmas, guess what well be co...

Forces. we should do everything in our power to make sure they can stay here, this is not a democrat or republican issue. the reason they came to begin with, the president set an arbitrary deadline to end the daca program and now hes playing political football. >> molly: well, he kicked that facebook -- football in congresss direction. republicans must go to nuclear option to pass tough laws now. can republicans do it alone? can they potentially begin to get this done before the mid-terms? >> re...

And pass tougher immigration laws. the president explaining his position yesterday. >> president trump: mexico has got to help us at the border. and a lot of people are coming in because they want to take advantage of daca. and we are going to have to really see. democrats blew their chance. had a great, great chance. well have to take a look. mexico has to help us at the border. they flow right through mexico. they send them into the united states. cant happen that way anymore. >> bill: team fo...

He has a staff of 470 in his office. you will have that and that inspector general cannot go outside. it can only deal with people inside the justice department. but these prosecutors in this special arrangement that sessions was talking about can do that. >> bill: they dont know if theyve found crumbs, sandwich or full on. in due time. quickly on daca. do you think were frozen legislatively now up until the mid-term? what is your read? >> there is a sense congress has done all it will do and no...

They wanted these daca recipients as political pawns. i think what has happened is incredibly sad. >> incredibly sad indeed. other than the easter egg presentation which will be taking place on the south lawn, we dont expect to hear the president talking about this on camera today. if that changes well pass it along to you. >> bill: where does the white house go from here on daca then? >> its all about negotiation. lets be clear. no matter what the white house has to say about somehow this wont ...

President obama said he was going to close guantanamo bay. he rain as a civil libertarian. theres a massive disconnect between the states and the federal government. i think its not just about the supreme court. congress has to take a stand and say we are the ones that craft laws. this is our immigration policy. they absolutely have to do it. its morally incumbent -- >> congress is the most dysfunctional body on earth. >> it gets back to politics. >> we cant have open borders. it doesnt work. we...

Democrats would be foolish to turn it down. now so its emotionalized, its only about the mid-terms. >> i agree with that. >> the u.s. kicking off joint military exercises with north korea. one four-star general says the presidents maximum pressure campaign is driving diplomacy with the rogue nation. others think kim jong-un may have something else in mind. were watching the dow. look at that. taking quite a dip after china hitting back at the presidents tariffs on steel and aluminum impor import...

Affair, trade, gun policy, so how did that play into the strategy for democrats come to mid-terms? >> well, the economy is a plus for him. and that is a good thing. the real problem for him is people dont trust him. they dont believe in him as a president. susan is exactly right. my guess is if you look at these numbers, he has an 85% approval with republicans. he is under water everywhere else the democratic side is here is this president nobody trusts on our side, the vast majority of the inde...

But after 14 or 15 months, no one has evidence. will this hurt with the left with the mid-terms with the president being so hard on russia? not tonight that, hes got 23 countries, nato in -- not only that, hes got 23 countries. nato is backing him. >> the left has been preaching this gospel for the last year and a half or so that president trump is a puppet of putin and does whatever putin says. yet youve seen as you said organizing this diplomatic effort to remove the diplomats from around the ...

Ever beon confronted by someones daring as some of these politicians to say, youic know, maybe its time for to you go away or, if i say, to go back into the woods, but, ronna, you know, the talk about the mid-terms in a presidential election -- you know, first term, i should say, is usually it benefits the other party, but now with hillary clinton and thisis lunacy, her saying that e election was traumatic, you know, doesnt this benefit republicans? >> it does. and i do think the people who aren...