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hello, everyone. welcome to the "amanpour" hour. here is where were headed this week. playing politics or playing with fire? the republican party tanks a border security deal that it had spent months demanding. >> that is the kind of chaos that donald trump instills. you have voter i.d. to buy a loaf of bread. >> what the polls arent telling you about donald trumps re-election chances. also ahead -- the remarkable resilience of ukraines war-weary children, still forced into subterr...

Voting for the 3.5 trillion blueprint to go forward. what you just said is democrats in private supported you and democrats in public opposed you. make sense of that. >> well, the only way i can make sense of it is that theyre getting pressure evidence by the progressives. we know that the president himself instead of spending time rethinking his disastrous withdrawal and arbitrary timeline has been on the phones twisting arms, pressuring members. we know former presidents have been doing the sa...

On his or her record. the obama campaign organization just last week just transformed itself into a permanent non-profit. that is where the obama camp team thinks they are going to get some of their strength in congress is by pressuring members through this new non-profit that they have created, and thats something to watch to see how that develops and the millions of dollars it will be raising because i think in the end thats how obamas going to real the bully pulpit and try to force change in ...