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Hes become unhappy with everyone. i mean, everyone except kellyanne conway and his family members have pretty much gone. so you have to believe that hes unhappy with giuliani because hes unhappy with everybody. and theyve all pretty much left before the end of, you know, two years. >> quickly, david. >> by the way, the easiest thing to get in washington say blind quote from somebody near the president who says that hes unhappy or theyre unhappy or theyre dismayed. of course they are, because the...

Time for cnn business now. time is running out for the u.s. and china to reach a deal to end the trade war. just how much talking are trade officials actually doing before next weeks crucial high level meeting in washington? our chief business correspondent christine romans is in the business center. >> larry kudlow is denying reports that the u.s. cancelled a meeting this week with the chinese government as the two countries rushed to strike a trade deal. stock markets rattled by reports that t...

Mentioned this earlier. the cbs poll has this approval rating going down. 37% approve, 57% disapprove. hes heading down. he just lost an election. the democrats take the house. in the early months of the new year your numbers are going down. if youre a president rafrmimpip for reelection, what do you do about that? >> they rebounded when the economy got better and they rebounded after the tax reform passed early last year in part because it seemed like the economy is going well and things are mo...

It on monday which was a federal holiday. what our hill colleagues have said in their reporting is that pelosi essentially told members of her caucus this morning not to invite their families to washington next week which implied that there would be no state of the union address and youve heard democrats say that they dont believe there will be a state of the union unless the government has re-opened. to get technical with you here, technically nancy pelosi has to introduce a resolution formally...

Least on the senate side for something that may approach what the president would want s? and what democrats can claim as a vic friday as well. >> sung ming, you have reported the status of the state. union as it were. >> right now the white house is forging ahead as if the state of the union were still happening next week on january 20 nooit9t. the problem is that nancy pelosi controls the house chamber. its her domain. usually every year the house and senate pass a concurrent resolution to all...

Not ethical and that he should be recused from these issues because of what hes said in the past and what hes done in the past. and so i think theyll keep trying to press and get in front of him and this is a manifestation of the subpoena power. they have the ability to force him to answer questions and i think theyll continue to press that. >> its a sign of what the white houses plan is up for every request for house democrats. theyre going to slow walk it and potentially challenge it here. so ...

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Congress and support the president. heres the question, in a normal washington this deal is pretty easy. the president did win an election on immigration. he has every right and every reason to ask for more border security money and part of this wall. republicans control the senate. they have leverage. democrats now control the house and they have more leverage than they did a few weeks ago. you split the difference the president gets $2 billion or $3 billion and they would support more border p...

Happening. my frustration is that this administration does not seem to have the attention to detail to actually fix the problem with trade policy. so it seems to be trade theater. right? thats not trade policy. thats trade theater. i can give you a hopeful note. >> 15 seconds. >> businesses are -- were seeing what businesses will do for workers when they absolutely have to retain them. that wont be forgotten. >> happy to leave it on a hopeful note. thank you very much. and coming up on a.m. jo...

Immediately. like, whos going to leak this. >> i look at that again in contrast with all of these other -- he does this all the time. president trump will have cameras come in to cabinet meetings, and there hes got a clack of cabinet members who say a prayer, often, express how glad they are to be working for the president and how glad they are to be in that capacity. so perhaps he was under the illusion thats what this was going to be. >> hes been steadily taking a lot of the norms of the way t...