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The wall. in quinnipiac, they poll ten times, and in his presidency, its never been higher than 43%. hes using a tactic -- >> its not the majority. the president has said most americans want it and thats why they elected him. reminder, he did not win the popular vote. but go ahead. >> not only that, fred, its actually something fascinating thats happened. if you go back to the exit poll in the 2016 election, 41% of the country supported the wall among the people who voted in 2016. but for the pe...

Manipulation and exploitation, or based upon what we learned last night, there is something that vladimir putin has over him and under either scenario, it is extraordinarily clear that vladimir putin and russian intelligence is able to manipulate the president of the united states and that he is compromised in some way, whether willingly or unwillingly. >> phil -- im sorry, sam. let me stay with phil with this. phil, there is this meeting that was supposed to happen, the second summit between pr...

With enhancing border security. everybody wants border security. no one is talking about open borders. i mean, how do the republicans go into an election season next year where they are in the vulnerable seats in the senate? how do they explain this? >> its as if we didnt have a midterm election in november where donald trump made immigration and a hawkish line on it the issue. and democrats want a record number -- they want 40 house seats and got the most votes in any midterm ever. 800,000 fede...

Basically vladimir putin denied interfering with the 2016 election and president trump said i believe him, that was one of the very few points republicans did break with the president. i was covering the midterm at the time and we saw polling plunge for republicans. so i am curious with this news how republicans are going to react. weve seen them united with the president on a whole host of issues. but this is something putin does make them uncomfortable. so we have to see what they do. im inter...

Keeping the government shut down for months and months or pursuing the national emergency and building the wall with military funds. >> ed: i also want to give you something else, senator chris murphy tweeted this, "hey, republicans, someday soon there will be a democratic president and once you open the national emergency bottle, the genie doesnt go back in. bet you could get a single-payer system faster than build a wall with mexico. just saying." >> and the strict constitutionalism when the o...

Controversy before the midterm. i believe it would have helped republicans in the midterm elections. but i think it would have also stanched the difficulties we are having now politically. >> harris: you and i talk enough that i can hear it in your voice, congressman bigs. though this has been frustrating. and you are very transparent when you are telling us now the answer to why republicans couldnt get it done in the majority. its a big question right now. because now this politically herds acr...

To speak to them because now we have their cell phone number. >> martha: before the oval office spoke the other night, you are fund-raising off that speech -- >> no. anytime we are fighting and people say, yes, im with you. we give them a chance to connect with us, fight with us, support us. it might not be asking for money, it just is combined with us. we give them a method to do that. we have not directed any fund-raisers -- this is a fight for the american people and not for the presidents re...

>> reporter: kim was in china this week at the very same time that top american trade negotiators were also there. trying to work their way out of a trade war with china. experts say that was no coincidence. xi is holding his influence with north korea over president trump. what is the danger to the united states of xi being so powerful right now with north korea and the u.s.? >> i think the risk for the u.s. and chinas leverage is if we dont make progress in the north korea/u.s. channel, this g...

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Natural gas, environmental assay that does not good enough. the country needs a green new deal. an idea being championed by democratic punishment, alexandria osasio-cortez. and then to gas vehicles ended all renewable power grid. >> it will cost billions of dollars that is a cheaper investment than doing nothing. doing nothing is the most costly strategy we have. >> "green new deal" is creeping into the new presidential race. elizabeth warren and cory booker have both supported it. >> we have a ...