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There are these differences, and he wont hesitate to point them out, knowing theyll still be there for the vast majority of republicans in the midterm. >> and theyre also for prison reform, which is something jared kushner has been working on. theyve worked with democrats on prison reform. jeff sessions is not their biggest supporter on that, but jared kushner is. the koch brothers are kind of -- theyre hard to pigeon hole sometimes. trump is a little easier. >> all the sudden, julie, were heari...

Trump has done such a thorough job telling people his critics is making things up. >> you remember how he reacted to "fire and fury," you think it will be the same thing? >> ive given up to engage on how i think he will react on things like this and people who follow him off the ledge. i dont know how theyre reacting to it or processing things like this. if its just falling into the tribalism were used to, people who hate him love this sort of thing and people who love him discount it completely...

Not be so arduous? >> what i really wish is that it should not be so broken, children should be with her parents, we should protect our borders and our communities, keeping smugglers and traffickers out, we cannot do that with a given law. i really wish that congress -- >> dana: i agree, but the system that was put in place after they all came, that was our fault. >> we knew where the kids were in the parents were, but we tried to continue to pave it based each lowest comply with court ruling, b...

Anymore. listen, i think at the end of the day, we know how unpopular the 2017 tax cut, its getting increasing little more unpopular as we head into the midterm. i actually think this is really a bad move by the republicans. i dont think it makes any sense. >> one thing on the deficits, this is something a lot of people miss. we have never in the last half century had a budget surplus other than two events right after the 1960s stock bubble and right after the 1999 stock bobble. so early 70s, we...

But i think it speaks to a much larger point were seeing in the midterms in which the president is really playing an increasingly important role in giving his imprint to certain candidates and giving them a huge boost. you know, desatnis, for instance, was behind in the polls. trump supported him in a series of tweets. and now hes up ahead of his opponent, putnam, who really, you know, is a longtime office hold holder, a florida politician a lot of people know. it looked look he is going to win....

>> yes, i was going to throw it in, but the vast majority of the party is going to lose the house almost every single time in the first midterm and two exception. 2002 and 1997 when bill clinton was about to be impeached. so the vast majority of data tell us us this and the electoral climate tells us this and thr a loft republicans sitting in seats where the president isnt popular and hillary clinton won those seats. so based on that data, you would have to say yeah its more than a 50% chance. b...

>> what tape was that? >> he was caught on tape. >> they went too crazy. to sound too hard right. >> editorial entitled trumps lose house strategy. trump is running a campaign strategy that puts the house at maximum risk while focusing -- the president tweeted again, today, i dont care what the political ramifications are. a government shut down is a small price to play. >> that tweet is disingenuous. they thinks this is the way to win the house. whatever the presidents party typically loses sea...

This was not somebody who was holding a hard and fast line. to my ears, it sound like hes not intent on shutting down the government. thats not a desired policy outcome for him. that i think is pretty clear. what he is going to do is be a thorn in the side of republican leaders from now until the government funding bill is done where he is going to hang out and dangle this desire to get more funding for his wall. but i think he is keenly aware of the political ramifications of stepping on cavana...

Its the best place to book a flight a few days before my trip and still save up to 40%. just tap and go... for the best savings on flights, go to priceline. midterm elections are 99 days away, and lawmakers have new reasons to worry because president trump is threatening a government shut down if they dont approve his border wall and immigration laws soon. so lets bring our guests back, this is not what lawmakers need right before the midterm, but as we heard mitch mcconnell, he sounded quite ...

And they have said that at that point, they had thought that september early september would be a good guideline. i may have read into that that thats also a good time so you dont get accused of doing a comey and getting involved in the election. >> if he does not wrap it up by september, are you worried this will affect the midterms? >> yeah, i dont know which way. i mean, yeah, people against him get excited about it but if one of his biggest rallying cries, dont impeach. vote republican becau...