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Unconventional playbook of politics that president trump has long followed, using bold moves, taking the communications front away from him, that has been an area he wanted to use in the state of the union to lecture lawmakers. shes now stopping him from that opportunity. at this point pelosi -- speaker pelosi, a longtime inside player is playing the outside game as well. >> kim, youre nodding. >> yeah, i think were seeing turn after turn after turn president trump underestimating nancy pelosi a...

>> maya wylie, let me take the other side of the argument and that is for a republican aging nominee of donald trump, this man today really did try to stake his claim to independence, and he went out of his way to say the right things regarding the integrity of the investigation. r if youre donald trump, who has wistfully spoken of where is my roy kohn, might this be a case of watch what you wish for. youre nodding. >> i keep going back to why does william barr want this job, and i think hes get...

Say the right things regarding the integrity of the investigation. if youre donald trump, who has wistfully spoken of where is my roy kohn, might this be a case of watch what you wish for. youre nodding. >> i keep going back to why does william barr want this job, and i think hes getting those questions today. its an incredibly powerful and important position, and who wouldnt want to be the nations top lawyer. and hes been the nations top lawyer for a sitting president, and he has seen trumps be...

Justice and i want it to have that independence. i dont have total confidence that thats what hell do. when trump asks him to do something. i dont have any other choice. because -- but to be hopeful. hes going to be confirmed. hes hit all the notes today. hes basically said what he has to say and the republicans have all the votes. so all i -- i dont feel like i have a choice to express my love for the department and to hope and pray that he will uphold what he says hell do. theres no other choi...

Country, but they had the luxury of believes that. theyre making the connection even if trump, king or others are sort of winks and nodding. >> i mean winking and nodding i think is of the past. it is president outright said call me a nationalist. king said, im just a nationalist. do you think thats an attempt to normalize those words? and is it working? >> its external an attempt to normalize the words when steve king, david duke does it, people like that. i think donald trump has always been, ...

Which no one is suggesting. >> which no one is suggesting. look, this is all prepackaged drama that hes going to roll out tomorrow night because if this was a national emergency, folks, we would have had this address long before now, and to that point, members of his own administration would be reinforcing that national emergency concern with the numbers and information theyre putting out instead of what theyre doing now, which is contradicting the very statistics he and sarah sanders are puttin...

Kept on. going to thirty minutes on g.w. . this is g.w. news lawyer from berlin to bring in our correspondent ophelia harms are british and joins us from for your vision our although were going to find out what happened with me think of your correspondent sound of its not and we do have some of breaking news its coming into us now and its all about perspective closer up w. news thank you for joining us. i was here when i arrived here i slept with six people in a room very similar. it was hard i ...

Of the other. they all own this. this has been a problem building for a very long time. if you are a daca recipients, if you are a second-generation daca recipient -- which, we had one in the audience, in the town hall i hosted in arizona in september. you dont know whats going happen with you or your family. there are a lot of people in limbo. republicans and democrats have a heart for that. nobody gets to where the "im a better person" jersey. this affects everybody. heres the big question, ke...

Said all along. although, he has always consistently called it a wall. what do you have come as a republican, about different ways of talking about this? >> congressman gaetz: i would hope republicans and democrats can come together and agree that the united states senate is not the ideal architectural review committee for border security. i dont think we want 100 people negotiating whether or not you want a well here or a fence here or two princes or slats. i think we should trust a professiona...

Pelosi will be in terms of playing this hand starting january 3rd? >> i think that -- well, i mean, i think theyre already playing it very strong. that meeting at the white house was a complete win for them. you watch chuck schumer nodding, yeah, thank you, we wanted to come here and have you say youre going to own this shutdown. theyre already leading and already winning. of course, the house is going to have a lot more dexterity to really push back against the administration in the senate beca...