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On their terms. obviously the presidents negotiating position was best in the last two years, right, lets just remember this. this was an all republican town. the president had every -- his best shot in a republican house and a republican senate, albeit with democrats that could filibuster and block him, that was his best shot. it doesnt get any easier on january 3rd. it only gets tougher because then its pelosi doing the main negotiating, not the republican leadership. mike: a recent poll shows...

Wouldnt do that and at the same time said he would be proud to open a shutdown. i talked to a lot of republicans who made clear that a shutdown at this point doesnt get you up in. all it gets you is 800,000 federal workers furloughed or having to work at the moment for free. it doesnt change his negotiating position at all. in fact, it makes it worse because if the shuddown rides all way through the new year what you have then are democrats reopening the government. and by the way, the house-pas...

Are thinking, heres what it is. he has certainly pushed back on this wall. >> youia. heres the thing, alex. republican lawmakers, noeks like lindsey graham who have been around a while and know how this political game works -- when i say game i am not being glib, i mean it. >> politics. >> when donald trump was in the oval office and said i would be proud to own a shutdown there were republican lawmakers who were just so nervous about that because they knew we would end up in this moment. they s...

And make sme choose. in the wake of the oval office photoon that jeff was talking about i spoke with staff literally cringing thinking that the president undercut any negotiating position they had. one of them told me that the president doesnt really have a negotiating position at all because of course nancy pelosi will need the house democrats into the minuterity in exactly two weeks on january 3rd. there is all the leverage. democrats are seen as having all the leverage here. what we have seen...

Capitol hill that thought our negotiating position would be better in february with nancy pelosi with the speakers gavel. most americans didnt buy that. i didnt buy that. it was now or never, and i believe the president heard from the american people and decided to side with them. i applaud him in that. >> martha: lets go through the motions before i let you go. if it passes in the house, then it goes to the senate. unlikely to get 60 votes. at that point, they kick it back to the house. then wh...

>> good to see you. >> shepard: your take on this? >> its baffled honestly. i cant figure out a strategy in which this is a good piece. the president seems to be giving a lot away for free. a lot of people wanted the u.s. troops to leave, principally thd that maybe the presidents agreement that he reached with president erdogan of turkey over the weekend to sell $3.5 billion worth of missile defense equipment to the turks may have played a role. $3.5 billion is cheap when you talk about a strate...

Party that just won the midterm, will stop at nothing, including shutting down the government to stop their agenda. they want to show theyre on the side of the country. they, the president. this new house majority, whatever it might be, is on the side of some narrow partisan agenda. what you dont do is turn around and say i, the president, will stop at nothing on my agenda. ly shutdown the government. i will try to get something after an election in which i lost the election -- by the way, in th...

Their own party. they try to move a little bit to the middle and they try to negotiate. and they try to show that the party that just came in, the party that just won the midterm, will stop at nothing, including shutting down the government to stop their agenda. they want to show theyre on the side of the country. they, the president. this new house majority, whatever it might be, is on the side of some narrow partisan agenda. what you dont do is turn around and say i, the president, will stop a...

The president of the u.s. utilizing his art of a deal strategy, if hes also getting the same from the other side, is this really just an olive branch from the incoming mexican president or is he now turning this into a bargaining chip for the ongoing trade discussions? what do you think, margaret? >> i think you raise a really good point. certainly the incoming leader has some political skills, and theres going to be sort of -- this becomes a negotiating position at this point, but i think for p...

This what youve called cherry picking the you has no interest in handing out the cherries while staying with all the obligations and the rest of the package they want an orderly process it and they want that this is applied to all areas of cooperation theyll stay with us id like to bring in john burke here john just based on what gilligan saying the way the u.k. had set out its negotiating position in the promises that would be. early on in the process that you were following it almost sounded l...