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Shutdown to extract policy concessions, he cant get a different way, he will do it over and over again. if you let an unpopular president pull through an unpopular policy with the government as hostage, it will be his only policy path for most of his agenda and that would be a dark two years for the party and for everybody else. >> president trump is facing blow back from a number of his supporters and immigration hardliners over his offer to end the government shutdown. commentator ann coulter ...

Of the russia investigation, the michael cohen matter. there are lots of headlines this president is trying to erase. how do you see republicans handling this? >> i think you will continue to see very muted critiques like you heard from speaker ryan. hell say, hey, thats not a policy path i agree with. i hope we end up in the right place and that this works out but i dont think thats the best path. youre not going to see the presidents party -- hes got 88% support among republicans in that lates...

Release like we all did late last night. criticism time and time of this administration is this zero tolerance policy was put in place and there was no plan for how it might be implemented. you had that executive order, the same story. there wasnt a plan to see it implemented. what is the white house saying about what happens next? as we look ahead to this week, you get that press release, some indication here the dhs is trying to do more. whats the white house saying about the policy path forwa...

Especially with evangelical voters. this is a dark cloud that hangs over. this and the investigation. as more and more women come out and continue to speak. they are given the platform to do so. then i think it could actually have a real impact. it will certainly have a continued impact. >> even voters are more strongly with him even after the stormy daniels allegation came out than they were before. evangelical voters clearly have a different seat of priorities here. hes appointed the judges th...

Of this equation. and korea, as david mentioned before, is perhaps the prime example. you have north/south talks going to begin later this week but we also know were within months probably of the big decision points about whether or not diplomacy can resolve the nuclear crisis or whether we may be tempted to go off into some kind of covert or military action. and thats when foreign leaders get particularly nervous because they dont understand the clear policy path. they dont understand what benc...

Like youre the one controlling the strings of the government? thats not going -- that wont fly with most presidents. certainly not this president. that has been made clear again and again. the other point that john was getting at earlier i think this is the -- we now have to wait and see. for the first seven months of this administration, wolf, i have been hard-pressed, saying this on the air. think through the seven months. what has president trump done? what policy path has he taken where he w...

Waitresses, power washers, people who voted on trump. they say this is malarkey the democrats put forward in order to take away from the efforts of jobs and veterans affairs. they said, yes, the trump 5d ministration may be something but when it comes town to something, a lot of them are saying, we still want tup. if you look at his approval rating, they want him week after week. nine out of ten republicans stand by donald trump. what were hearing from people is tup is not a legitimate president...

Program, but one that your caucus doesnt agree with you on. its another thing to be kind of pledging all of these kinds of populist ideas without a clear policy path to get there. donald trump has proved to be extremely successful on selling populist politics. on policy, we really havent seen follow through yet. >> all right. jared, thanks as always for the time. >> my pleasure. a big morning out on the west coasttoday. its going to lead us to our most important number of the day. thats up nex...

And so the damage here is being caused by ideologues and ideologues are destructive in any political party, in any political organization because an ideologue brings with them the capacity to look at the red wall and insist that it is blue and were following ideologues down a policy path that will ultimately lead to the destruction of the republican partys ability to compete as a national party. it will remain strong as a regional party but not as a national party. and so when you look at the 22...

Caused by ideologues and ideologues are destructive in any political party, in any political organization because an ideologue brings with them the capacity to look at the red wall and insist that it is blue and were following ideologues down a policy path that will ultimately lead to the destruction of the republican partys ability to compete as a national party. it will remain strong as a regional party but not as a national party. and so when you look at the 22% caused by the way because of r...