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Who is around the president to ask about the rigor of foreign policy to see if its being carried out and upheld? >> thats a great question. if hes losing trust in john bolton, and thats a big if, it makes you wonder who is filling that gap. is it mike pompeo? certainly patrick shanahan has been a low key figure at the defense department so far. who is the president leaning on? his chief of staff mick mulvaney is a former congressman not particularly long experience in foreign policy. it also may...

If hes losing trust in john bolton, thats a big if, it makes you wonder who is filling that gap. is it mike pompeo? patrick shanahan has been a low key figure at the defense department so far. who is the president leaning on? his chief of staff is a former congressman not particularly long experience in foreign policy. it also may be that some of this is faint and negotiation tactic. is there a good cop bad cop situation going on in which he has no problem with john bolton going out there and sa...

Necessarily a failure. we talked about a couple days ago. no doesnt necessarily mean know. it means not yet. stepping away from the table is a negotiation tactic and that is what we are seeing. number 2, important not to get into the spiral of all is lost. the personal relationship between chairman kim and the president is important and they are critical and i will say maybe the time spent in hanoi helps both teams to get more realistic in terms of what to expect, what is achievable. we talked a...

Is the one whos got to run for re-election in 2020. if he does decide. how does that help him with independents or conservative democrats who may not like the look of the 2020 democratic field but going to see him as someone who cant really get things done and goes to these unusual lengths like a national emergency. >> just the very fact he continues to dangle this idea of declaring a national emergency, hes been doing it for weeks now. now you have to add in another 19 days. doug, doesnt this u...

Table pounding portion. what you have here are people trying to control the narrative as opposed to trying to find a solution. either way you look at it, the american people look at this and say, well, whether this is a negotiation tactic or the art of the deal or whether this is the omnipotent nancy pelosi, where he in a shutdown. no one is moving the needle. the president said a few weeks ago that he will own this. now you see that that tide -- that train has left the situation. >> dick durbin...

Were waiting for the house, now in democratic hands, to vote on a series of funding bills to reopen the government. the white house has already threatened to veto the legislation, making it more of a negotiation tactic than anything else. so is the presidents non-conference press conference early today. what was -- explain what happened in the briefing room today, because it certainly wasnt a briefing. >> reporter: it certainly wasnt a briefing, because a press briefing reporters get to ask ques...

Get into the weeds of whats going on, process, procedure. 750,000 people that work for the federal government arent getting a paycheck they thought they would get over the holidays. thats the bottom line for folks. on the other hand, the president is tweeting a video that looks like it was taped this week about border security, fighting for the wall. no matter what, chuck, he is breaking a campaign pledge. remember, the pledge wasnt just build the wall, it was build the wall, have mexico pay for...

Deadline. the deadline has come and gone and come and gone and the white house keeps setting additional ones. what do you think of the latest one? >> youre right,its self imposed. seems like weve had 10 nafta dead lines. the deadline is really self imposed. theyre trying to get it done before the new mexican president goes into office, december 1s december 1st. they really want canada involved. so thats why youre seeing them make this last minute push. eboni: when the president says as he did la...

>> neil: then what does it potentially extend to? >> what the government is doing right now, what the president is doing is using this as a negotiation tactic. while they are not putting the consumer friendly stuff on just yet, if china doesnt back down, the consumer stuff is going to go back on that list. thats when the consumers should start getting very, you know, a little concerned. to the reporters point, we shouldnt -- this is very small tariffs happening right now. but, if this increases,...

Secretary seems to think the threats to keep canada out from president trump are part of a negotiation tactic. >> remember, nafta went into force in the mid- 1990s. the nest texas was the canadian u.s. free trade agreement signed in 1998. its that agreement that brought mexico to the table. they thought they were losing out on an agreement that benefited canada and would institute more trade to the north. that same tactic is now being used in a reverse way. its been a canada back to the table af...