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Senate, you hear republicans looking with alarm at the way the president, at least privately in conversations with reporters, some alarm in how the presidents handling pelosi and schumer and that exchange in the oval office. and they also believe that this white house is just not prepared when it comes to robert mueller or the house democrats. they see the vacancy for chief of staff. they see the new white house counsel just getting his footing. and they wonder wheres the plan for the republican...

The house because they told voters they would push back on the most problematic ideas coming out of the trump administrati administration. they fact checked donald trump in realtime in his face in a way that he hasnt experienced from people within his own tribe. a big challenge for the president is that he doesnt seem to realize that he doesnt have the popularity, even with his base in december 2018 that he did before the midterm elections. many of the people who voted for trump, who were suppor...

Support, he believes, a government shutdown? is that his base hes talking about? >> it is his base, and when he has his kind of news conference, this discussion play out in front of the cameras, when he uses that sort of language in a reuters interview, it underscores the presidents political strategy which is always to rouse his political base to keep them with him. he wanted to have the democratic leaders captive, talking to white house officials today, he wanted to be seen as combative on beh...

Look, was it real? were they really angry at each other? >> i think afterwards the president based on reporting i am getting out of the white house, the president was frustrated after the meeting. aides briefed him going in, aides are aware, sometimes you brief a president, he doesnt always follow the plan. this was supposed to be a short photo op, supposed to give a picture of the president working with the democrats, incoming how the majority, trying to get a deal done. and then theyre suppose...

Schumer on the floor. >> if president trump wants to continue his temper tantrum and cause a shutdown it is now so clear it is solely on his back. we hope the president chooses one of the reasonable ochgss we gave him yesterday and we hope the country can avoid a trump shutdown. >> on the other side of the aisle you have the president again trying to make his case but by tieing the deadly terror attack in france. tweeting we are going to strengthen our borders even more. nancy pelosi is having n...

Flicking a folder and sending its papers flying out. the aftermath of that meeting was not pretty," the person said. well, with us to talk about it, shannon pettypiece for "bloomberg" and talked robert costa into a few minutes with us. shannon, eli stokols at "the new york times" presented the president was angry with schumer for not keeping eye contact when he was making his points playing at times to the pool cameras in the room, this from the most camera-aware president of the modern era and ...

If the judge adopts the findings of the presentence report, then you essentially have a judge saying, im -- im adopting, im agreeing with those findings. its not as powerful as a trial or anything like that. its a different standard. but i think its something that congress should consider, you know, and sort of take into account if they were to go to impeachment. >> that is a great point that i have heard nowhere else. robert costa, concern level among republicans? >> at the capitol today, brian...

That for trump, the wall is, "like a manhood thing for him as if manhood could ever be associated with him." according to the "l.a. times," one administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said trump appeared upset after leaving the meeting, flicking a folder and sending its papers flying out. the aftermath of that meeting was not pretty," the person said. well, with us to talk about it, shannon pettypiece for "bloomberg" and talked robert costa into a few minutes with us. sh...

People of this country dont want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country. so i will take the mantle. i will be the one to shut it down. im not going to blame you for it. >> joe, theres no turning back from that one, is there? he dug in pretty deep and chuck schumer nodding and getting what he wanted. >> he was fantastic. >> the expression taking candy from a baby comes to mind. it was really -- it was all too easy, wasnt it? donald trump even walked int...

Skunk you get tinkle all over you. jake is on the hill. there are a lot of moments and im like are we really -- we are really doing this. we are saying this. i seems like senator kennedy is not wrong that we are headed towards a shutdown. >> when you look at this this morning and what the president said yesterday it is clear this is something they are leaning towards regardless of whether or not the president intended to own this potential shutdown. they pretending it was always the plan. listen...