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Regulation. >> 18 months ago you had a shot at this race. >> yeah. >> why not give somebody else a shot? >> i owe it to the people of alabama, not the republicans running in this race. this is a race for united states senator. if people want them, theyll elect them. but i have a strong base here and theyll elect me. >> i -- i asked roy moore directly about president trump and about don junior who tweeted yesterday, don june yort presidents son said yesterday, i can assure everyone that by runnin...

Of what was it? watchful waiting. come on now. theres no such thing as watchal waiting in this white house. >> theres no such thing as watchful waiting here, but i think its also very rare for them to have a deliberate strategy. they seem to do a lot more reacting off the cuff than they do proactive, strategic planning. and as disenheartening to see, i think its troubling on policy grounds. what we are seeing now though is this find crouch as they try to wait out and see what the mueller report ...

Happen? >> reporter: something will be introduced but there wont be votes for at least another couple of days. what we are going to see today was released last night. mitch mcconnell is likely to take it up today. it closely mirrors what the president announced on saturday. that is the republican proposal. what it is $5.7 billion for a wall. the tradeoff is a three year extension of doma protections and temporary protected status, they believe that is a compromise. democrats reject that proposit...

To. if that sounds familiar, it is because it was rejected earlier in the week by democrats. where this all ends, nobody knows. there will be a shutdown at midnight and talks to find a way out of this will continue. >> we heard senators on the floor the last time they spoke saying, listen. we wont come back unless theres something that all sides are willing to back here. so that next vote wont happen, any idea when the next vote might happen, it sounds like no. >> not at this point. thats tangib...

And theres been some talk among democrats that they want to attach legislation to protect the special counsel robert mueller. jeff merkley was on the show last week. seemed to acknowledge that he would perhaps vote to shut down the government if it didnt include such a provision. is that your position as well? would you vote against this funding bill if it doesnt include protections for robert mueller? >> no. no, i think there are ways to protect robert mueller and i think there are ways to do t...

Rallies against pelosi. thats one approach. the second approach is there were members that were recently elected who ran on, i will vote for someone else -- >> i think we have a wall behind me. i dont know if we can get it. some of the new members are on it. these are folks who said they oppose her candidacy and i will point out marcia fudge who met with her and shes a six-term -- >> now you have donald trumps fan i want nancy pelosi to be speaker of the house and these folks ran on i will vote ...

Interesting to me about the kavanaugh debate, the kavanaugh allegations against him is, there are a lot of suspicions against him about whether or not he ever had memory loss, about whether or not hes not telling the truth or being completely forthcoming about what his yearbook jokes meant. it doesnt seem to me that any of that necessarily, especially when it comes to the memory loss, can be proven. and if you cant prove -- and i get this is not a court of law, but if you cant prove that hes not...

Away security clearances. let me just add quickly, senator mark warner has proposed legislation that would essentially, as i understand it, prohibit the revocation of a clearance on policy grounds or on expression of first amendments. i think thats the sort of thing congress ought to do and essentially that was what john brennan was calling for yesterday. >> and we should also point out, of course, that john brennan is a national security analyst for nbc news and msnbc as well. thank you. avrvri...

He has said the media is as much an opponent of ours, meaning him and his base, as the democratic party or those oppose on policy grounds. which takes the role of a free press and puts it in really significant jeopardy think. >> jon you know this next question is coming. what if we need to say to the american people, no, this next portion of the story is getting consequential for our country, our presidency and our constitution and this isnt fake at all. in fact, it hasnt been more real? >> well...

Court is not holding that dhs cannot terminate the program, its holding that you didnt give us a sufficient reason. >> the administration claims then president obama did not have the constitutional authority to start the daca program, that claim is not enough, that claiming a prior policy is illegal with the, quote, hodgepodge of i logical policy assertions simply will not do and if the department of homeland security wands to rescind the program it must give a rational explanation for its decis...