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>> well, its a mistake for the president to declare this a national emergency. he ought to be collaborating with members of congress to focus on smart border security measures. hes obsessed with the wall. members of congress, democrats and republicans alike, are very focused on border security, and what we can do to ensure that our borders are sound, that theyre protected, and so forth. but this obsession with the wall isnt helping anybody, and frankly, holding 800,000 federal employees hostage ...

Re-election issue. but, as far as a shutdown issue in the here and now, democrats clearly feel they have an advantage here because not too long ago the president sat in the oval office and with all the cameras running, said "i will shut down the government. i will take the credit for it. im going to do it because border security is so important. so, the democrats feel that the president is pretty much already taken the blame for this. and they can push as hard as they like. question will be, onc...

Associates that he is glad democrats won the house in last months midterm elections, saying he thinks that guarantees his re-election because they will serve as a useful antagonist." and the president tweeted "this is about the dems not letting donald trump and republicans have the win. they may have the ten senate votes, but we have the issue, border security 2020." gene robinson, the way hes talking there, and well see, but the way hes talking there suggests this may be a president who is comf...

I think you have the market truly up. what is going to happen today? i dont really know but i think the news out there is relatively positive. we have jerome powell who is going to remain on the fed. that appears to have been taking their foot off the gas related to interest rates. i think there is progress being made with china which is important as far as the trade war goes so i think theres pretty good news out there and congress ultimately is going to deal with this shutdown issue and there ...

President in the white house on the shutdown issue and then i want to talk about this syria backlash. lets start with the shutdown. whats up? >> reporter: i was determined to get you a definitive answer about whether president trump would actually sign this short-term cr. i was determined. i have to tell you, i dont have an answer yet. white house officials say, theyre trying to get clarity on this. we are reiterating what weve heard over the past 24 hours, that the president will want to review...

Lindsey graham said it was an obama-like mistake. on the hill, republicans are furious about trump caving on the $5 billion for the wall. the internet headlines were trump caves, pelosi victory. his allies on the house are calling i on minimum to veto this bill. same on the shutdown issue saying he would take credit. call it the trump shutdown. democrats loved the sound of that 3 that. finally, the ongoing efforts on the chief of staff. president trump didnt get who he wanted. a bunch of people ...

Tweet like it was with the shutdown. >> right. that unsettles candidates. that is the last thing you want. usually politics shuts down in august and doesnt kickoff again in january. that will not happen. it will be a dynamic election. again, the odds are in favor of the democratic party. republicans have an uphill battle t battle. the last thing you want is to check the twitter feed on the campaign trail. >> we saw this with mcconnell on the shutdown issue. in a radio interview essentially sayin...

And thats what my whole group has been. perhaps ill start on my left and you can go around and heres one of the vet bry big powerful businesspeople of the world. say a few words about your company and whatever youd like to do. go ahead. >> thank you, mr. president. thank you for inviting me today. weve got 56,000 people working for the united states. >> were going to get out of this as donald trump does another introduce yourself roundtable. as hes so apt to do. leann, shutdown, february 8th. ar...

Im sure they want to extend that as much as possible, over the shutdown issue, putting together their priorities on immigration, wanting to lay out what the next few weeks are like, tee iing up the state of e union address next week. instead here we are again where they will be hammered with question after question. im sure sarah sanders wont answer them. shell punt them but question after question about the russian probe. >> what will you listen for? >> i agree. not that long ago that sarah huc...

Itself has supposedly got bipartisan support. the democrats dont trust the republicans to bring it up after they vote for a short-term spending measure which is why were in this kind of -- there is a huge trust gap. >> jon: thats the leverage theyre using. >> it can backfire if people decide they want the government to function more than they want to protect the daca kids. >> my final thought is i wish the press would do more about the history of all of the daca as well as this whole shutdown is...