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Not want to give him any wall because it is such a central tenant of his campaign? >> i think thats true of some or perhaps many democrats, but we have to be very honest about whats going on here. one of the challenges in negotiating with president trump is he does not have fixed policy positions, and they shift. and mitch mcconnell has already been burned once back in december he put forward a clean continuing resolution funding bill that passed the senate only to have his legs taken out from u...

In this case, they will think more about it -- part of it will be who can beat donald trump and that brings up the issue of do you go to the left? do you find somebody more moderate. so it will be interesting. >> who do you think of the household names, some declared, some not. whoever else may cross your mind, now, is there -- do you have anybody in your mind on the democratic side might have the best chance of beating president trump in a general? >> i think that joe biden is a very interestin...

That wont work and they need to pick somebody more moderate. its an interesting discussion. the country is not left. the country is sort of center of right and thats going to be the big challenge for the democrats. where is the energy? and if the energy is on the hard left, it hurts their ability to win, but we have a long way to go. because they have to talk about what their message is. they have to raise the money and be out there doing all the events and we have to see how it all works out. i...

Acknowledgement here at the worlds economic forum that the economy is not benefiting anough people and as the economy continues to change were said to be just on the cusp of what is going to be a digital revolution which will affect the way that we work it will affect the way that we interact on that will very much affect our economies and you know its expected that the losers in this future economy that is currently underway right now could be far greater so here at the world economic forum wit...

>> it should. we know there were long talks about the moscow project. and the only thing you can take away from his interviews is that they are dead set on not coming clean with the time line of those talks. remember the reason that robert mueller sentenced michael cohen. he points out two things. michael cohen lied to congress about the duration of those talks and the links between trump and those talks. they want to stuff that down into a black box. michael cohen lied because he was trying to ...

Stafford act. what this effectively means is that he could invoke this act which would allow him to take f.e.m.a. funds from the pot of money that is supposed to go for disaster relief. the open question is whether that money would just run up the deficit because apparently you dont have to cover your tracks on that. you dont have to pay for that money that you spend. >> congress has a good record of paying for money -- is that the way forward? >> i think there is a reason why his lawyer is with...

Shutdown. theres been no evidence of that so far. significantly, the president is going up to capitol hill to meet with senate republicans and many of them are nervous who have an exit strategy. in the middle of that he says lets do a big immigration bill. lets do a big immigration bill. the president walked away from a deal last year that was big, not huge, but big, where he could have legalized the dreamers, so-called daca recipients and gotten the money for his wall. the government is now shu...

After 2008 everyone worked together, after 9/11, everyone worked together. after the next crisis in this geopolitical environment well look for folks to blame inside the country and outside. >> lets shift gears to syria and the u.s. policy. what is the u.s. policy? thats the open question. the president said troops would get out now, then within 30 days then four months now with conditions. how does the world see the split between the president and his national security adviser? >> the world see...

>> i think the southern district of new york would beg to different with trumps interpretation of campaign finance laws. the big distinction is michael cohen has pled guilty and donald trump has been identified as an unindicted co-conspirator. so donald trump as an unindicted co-conspirator has been accused of committing a felony under the campaign finance law. so donald trump once again likes to do his side step, two step interpretation of the law but it wrong. its wrong on its face and again i...

There are now currently seven appropriations bills that have not been passed. thats the 25% of the government thats currently shut down. democrats will package six of the bipartisan senate bills and send those over to the senate. they will do the seventh, the homeland security bill, the one thats the most contentious, could include wall funding and a short-term basis through february 8th and send that, as well. pam, its worth noting, this is not the end of the story. senate republicans, includin...