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and he says what did i do? you get to see his humanity doing the whole brutal attack. hes asking themrely have to do all of this? and they just keep escalating, and its just so difficult to watch because at one point, he says i just want to go home, its going to remind you of rodney king in many regards. >> you mean being kicked? >> assaulted, battered, punched, kicked, tased, pepper spray asked. its very troubling when you think about ty re only ways at most 150 pounds. and so you kno...

We are in this is a mountain village, were about 30 miles east of the epicenter. And throughout this village, ali, there are houses completely destroyed and there are some like this one you can see behind me, partially collapsed, in danger of falling down. The family who lives here has spent two nights on the street, because they do not know if they can go back into that building, whether the roof is going to come down at them at any time. This is a village of 3000 people, the locals tell us at ...

Allow that to come to a vote. >> no, but the potent of the tail wagging the dog, republicans dont have a policy demand. putting the full faith in credit of the united states at risk. and again just want to remind everybody because well be dealing with unfortunately too long, its about as fiscally responsible as running out and not paying your check after a meal. you draw up a budget do the budget. you want to restrain your spending do it when the party is in power. this nonsense, this is a distr...

The funding levels that we wanted on things like medicare. i think the president is trying to establish going into 2020 that hes serious about border security and the democrats arent. and the rest of these things that he comes out in tweets or details that were goings to focus on now, hes trying to set up a longer-term difference between the two parties here. >> congressman dent, is that something you think he could win in setting that up, that kind of long-term fight? >> boy, ill tell you what....

On this in the short-term a short-term battle versus a long-term war. and going back to my example of the bill clinton/newt gingrich fight, we, republicans lost that fight in the short-term, but in the long-term, bill clinton signed a balanced budget. he signed republican bills on the funding levels that we wanted on things like medicare. i think the president is trying to establish going into 2020 that hes serious about border security and the democrats arent. and the rest of these things that ...

This is the "washington post"s take on this. they write, mcconnell is home in kentucky. the senators spokes american don stewart says it is up to president trump and democrats to come up with the deal to end the stalemate over funding for trumps border waum. in other words, in mcconnells view, it is not on him. congressman, he was initially in favor of this continuing resolution, the senate did pass it before it went to a quick death in the house. should the majority leader be a little bit more ...

Increased tremendously on mitch mcconnell in the senate to put that on the floor and reopen the government. and its just going to look increasingly bad for the president. >> yeah. congressman dent, listen. im kind of joking about that because i just think its -- im just pointing out the hypocrisy. theres nothing funny about this, you know. and the minute it came out i was like you know, theres nothing funny about it. but theres so much -- its so hypocritical because the president is claiming wit...

Increasingly bad for the president. >> yeah. congressman dent, listen. im kind of joking about that because i just think its -- im just pointing out the hypocrisy. theres nothing funny about this, you know. and the minute it came out i was like you know, theres nothing funny about it. but theres so much -- its so hypocritical because the president is claiming without evidence that most of the 800,000 federal workers affected by the shutdown are -- hes saying theyre democrats. he is trying to pla...

For this in the first place. >> when security at the border has been debated before, is the president making the right bet to say the government will stay shut down until i get my money. >> well, did i vote for the secure fence act in 2006. last i checked there are 700 miles of barriers on the southern bored he. we dont need a 2,000 mile long fence on the southern border. i havent heard one expert who said we needed it. this is owned by the president. the party making the policy demand, if you d...

Here to say governments going to stay shut down till i get my money? >> well, jim, i did vote for the secure fence act of 2006. which authorized up to 700 miles of vehicular and pids barriers on the southern border. last i collected there are close to 700 miles of barriers on the southern border. we dont need a 2,000 mile long fence on the southern border. we all know that. i havent heard one expert who said we needed so. this shut down is owned by the president. the party making the policy dema...