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If i dont get my border wall. >> what we see so often with the president he tends to make decisions in five and ten-minute increments. im sure this is not what he wants right now and this is a mess he finds himself in and he doesnt have a way out and while i do think he was sparring with john karl in the ending question, would you do that? would you do that? i do think hes turning to his advisers and turning to people around him and sort of looking for a way out of this because he has not given ...

Items like chip and daca and immigration more generally. where do you think major hangups will be? >> you are right, they averted a government shutdown for only a few weeks. had to reconsider the whole spending question. in two weeks now the government could shut down again. their major spending questions. as you said, there are also big ones on healthcare. on immigration and with all of this, the overarching question is, the midterms are coming and how is that going to play in? as soon as they ...

Priorities are and what the timeline is. the reason im being so vague is not because i dont know the answer, but no one knows the answer. a lot of folks are sitting down only now thinking about the timeline that they want to start taking these things on. frankly, when you have a good president and members of the democratic party as well talking about putting up with other priorities altogether whether it is on something like infrastructure or in the democratic party tried to figure out a fix for...

Spend to make it stop? >> on the spending question, you know, president trumps declaration doesnt immediately direct federal funding to the crisis which would have been the case if he had declared a national disaster and tapped into fema money. so instead, his declaration will shift federal grants toward the crisis and expand treatment in rural areas. do you like that idea? >> it depends. you really have to dig down on this. if theyre going to draw from the fema money, there might not be any fem...

Get down to it, what this fall is all about. theres two very starkly different ideas about the way forward for the country, what to do. is it to deal with the spending question, to talk about entitlements in that way, or is it time for a new look at taxes and a new look to move away from the previous two or three decades that encouraged people to sort of go out on their own and take care of themselves in old age and do that stuff? this is one of the core questions thats going to be resolved this...

Presidents law and this is his quote now, it would implicate virtually every piece of federal legislation enacted over the past several decades and many laws that are now in the pipeline, including proposals favored by conservatives. what do you make of this argument? he says it takes away congress ability to enact law, basically. >> that is absolutely a child stretch. i have a great respect for him generally, but, no it doesnt do that. the question here is how far does the interstate commerce c...

Arguing it may not be the same this time if it was based on economic considerations. >>guest: economic is spending and budget and the basic issues. i probably heard 200 different questions at townhalls i have been to. and at least one out of the ten of those, in every townhall there has been a spending question, a balanced budget question, and a lot folks tie that in with the who but believe they are same, government spending is crowding out economic progress, the issues they are absolutely have...

Arguing it may not be the same this time if it was based on economic considerations. >>guest: economic is spending and budget and the basic issues. i probably heard 200 different questions at townhalls i have been to. and at least one out of the ten of those, in every townhall there has been a spending question, a balanced budget question, and a lot folks tie that in with the who but believe they are same, government spending is crowding out economic progress, the issues they are absolutely have...