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People are going to see the consequences of the shutdown just go on and ramify, especially at the airports, tsa, monuments and parks. people are going to start seeing kind of more and more the import of this on their daily lives. you know, applying for a mortgage and having it not be processed. it goes on and on. the side that loses these shutdown fights i think, joe, is the side that holds the ransom for a thing that isnt that popular. and the democrats know that if they give in this time, it w...

Working hard to tie donald trump in knots using their position in the house to make sure that as he is running for 2020 reelection, that he is as bound up and bound down as he possibly can be. that he is spending all his time, effort and energy fighting with nancy pelosi, fighting these shutdown fights over chump change. doing all this stuff and that he is bound down here and not able to do what he does better than they do. donald trump is better at democrats than talking over the heads of the m...

Talking to each other. theres not a divide between chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. democrats are very comfortable in their negotiating position. and heres the bottom line. number one, i was there for some shutdown fights. whoever is blamed at the beginning, thats who people think the onus for the shutdown is on. it is donald trumps fault that the government shut down. it is donald trumps fault that hundreds of thousands of hard-working americans are not getting paychecks. real people who are goi...

Republicans are just talking to each other. theres not a divide between chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. democrats are very comfortable in their negotiating position. heres the bottom line. number one, i was there for some shutdown fights. whoever is blamed at the beginning, thats who people think the onus for the shutdown is on. it is donald trumps fault that the government shut down. it is donald trumps fault that hundreds of thousands of hard-working americans are not getting paychecks. real p...

Dreamers maybe there would be an opening, but theres not. mick mulvaney and these republicans are just talking to each other. theres not a divide between chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. democrats are very comfortable in their negotiating position. heres the bottom line. number one, i was there for some shutdown fights. whoever is blamed at the beginning, thats who people believe the onus for the shutdown is on. it is donald trumps fault that the government shut down. it is donald trumps fault th...

Self-serving white house. its not a big surprise that he had a haphazard and self-serving inaugural committee. the biggest reminder is when were talking about foreign involvement in the trump campaign, foreign involvement in the trump organization, its not just an issue of russia. there are countries often hostile to us or with different ideological or different foreign policy agendas who have sought to influence the president and those around him at every step of this enterprise. >> question to...

Now what we have is democrats saying that they will stand in the way of funding the government unless their policy demands, which is legalization for daca recipients, is granted. i think were going to see is do republicans always lose shutdown fights or is it the party thats trying to attach its own demands to government funding? does that party lose spending fights? >> tom cotton from arkansas sent this out. democrats are threatening to shut down the government if they dont get amnesty for mill...

That is basically, explicitly, the ted cruz strategy at this point, and i think its a pretty smart one. >> well, look, i think that ted cruz has a couple of really strong assets about his personal conservatism and his record as being a guy who is a very iconicic person in the senate, which means hes hated in the senate. and largely for reasons having to do with launching these shutdown fights without a real plan to win them. just to do them, but right now, hes trying to leverage his position as ...

Significant effects on the economy. i think people largely agree if you look at the polling. but i would also make another point about the nature of debt ceiling fights versus shutdown fights. there were about ten shutdowns over the course of the carter and reagan administrations. they lasted about a week to ten days. there was one significant debt ceiling fight. actually came after water gate when ted kennedy and water mondale had a debate in the wake of watergate. i would compare that very muc...