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That one can use as leverage? is this just a game of chicken and someone has to move first? >> it will be interesting to see who blinks first. theres a calendar. these gentlemen have been in the senate for a long time. theyre institutionalists in the senate and there will be pressure on them to take action and not allow the senate to look like, in their minds, a clown show in the house where everyone was doing their own thing and there didnt seem to be organization. but the fact that president t...

Who do you think has the best shot and who is the most closely aligned with the president ideology? >> i think brian hook mostly because hes at the state department and hes as pompeo aide. secretary pompeo is one of the most influential people in the trump orbit at this point. i would argue the most influential cabinet member. what i see whats happening is a proxy battle to see who can take over the slot. i think mulvaney, he would love to stick in that slot and pompeo would love to stick brian ...

The stage need to have a moment. a lot of them are going to drop off. people like hicken looper at this point are barely holding on. in terms of raising enough money. i think that the four main candidates are the ones to watch. particularly warren, sanders, biden and harris. particularly kamala harris because at the core of her argument is this idea that she can be prosecutor and chief. and prosecute the case against trump. she has to use every debate as a proxy battle for what that would look l...

>> the best case scenario is nicolas maduro agrees to leave and there is some kind of safe departure to a third country that is frustrated and perhaps working with russia and china and guaranteeing his safety. than is the best case scenario because humanitarian assistance would come in and the venezuelan people would elect a leader in a democratic fashion. and not only does nicolas maduro not want to leave, but china and russia dont either because they dont want the united states to get more of ...

Imagine national security adviser bolton is considering is not just how maduro will respond to enhanced aggression by the united states but how vladimir putin is going to respond to aggression. there are russian assets in venezuela right now, along with cuban ones, that are propping up nicolas maduro and so as we think about what other options may be on the table, the military option, that the president and john bolton have thrown around which frankly has no legal standing. more aggressive cover...

And suburban areas where president trump is unpopular, the wall is unpopular, and they have no incentive to cave. >> its broken. we broke it. >> governance is about leadership and everybody seems to have forgotten it. we do need to underscore this. there are real human faces to this. real people who, you know, live paycheck to paycheck and then dont get a paycheck and dont know what to do. the other side of it were talking about a $4.4 trillion budget. and were talking about $5 billion. really? ...

Exhilarating and terrifying election, it is a moral cross roads for the united states because this racial aspect of the campaign is so out in the open. there is no thinly vailed element to it. it cant be talked about in polite company. were going to find out on wednesday morning what path the united states has chosen and what florida represents the perfect proxy battle for that battle. are we going to be a country ofof diversity or unity and tolerance? >> yeah. let me ask david jolly that. what ...

Supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh went. so pretty bizarre language there. i imagine well hear more about it when he speaks to supporters at that big rally. this race has really turned into a proxy battle between new south and old south. of course, this is very red georgia. typically its been very conservative. keep in mind president trump only won this state by five percentage points in 2016. thats a lot closer of a margin than we saw in ohio, which is of course typically considered much mor...

Here in public. but they have a lot to answer for. >> this is one of the things that makes this so dicey, beyond the human tragedy, and the reason why we became allies with the saudis, because every time a great distance from them it benefits the iranians and thats another thing that you have to keep in mind. >> thats a very good way to summarize it. when you look at the middle east, there is a bunch of emanating from a bunch of different spots. but the two poles tend to be iranian and saudi. ir...

His wealth to his children: president trumps sister is a federal judge and an active federal judge who according to a great story could potentially be impeached. there could be some repercussions given her role as a judge. if democrats feel they cant necessarily go at the president with this, we could see some kind of an effort to bring up marianne trump berrys role in this as a means of having a proxy battle over this whole thing, which of course has gone beyond the statute of limitations in al...