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Surrender -- the regulations give some responsibility to the attorney general to have this sort of general -- not day-to-day supervision but sort of being there in case something really transcends the established policies. im not surrendering that responsibility. im not plunging it away. >> what gives me pause and sort of led me to this line of questioning, mr. barr, was that june 2018 memo you sent to the deputy attorney general in which at one point you state that mueller should not be permitt...

Giving muellers position great weight, that it was so unwarranted under established policies that it should not be done. so that is the standard i would apply. but im not going to surrender -- the regulations give some responsibility to the attorney general to have this sort of general -- not day-to-day supervision, but sort of be there in case something really transcends the established policies. im not surrendering that responsibility. im not pledging it away. >> what gives me pause and sort o...

>> i think that gives the president a little hope that at some point he and the democrats -- these two parties seem to put themselves in opposite quarters of the same room and can see a way out of it. the obvious way out of it would be for the democrats to give some ground on funding the border barrier or wall or whatever you choose to collect. the president to give some ground on immigration reform to the democrats want. i think you shot mowing us to do that, at particular times he is lord has ...

Shutting down the government. and as chris coons pointed out to you this morning, chris, mitch mcconnell and the republicans had a unanimous support -- republicans and democrats -- for a bill that would have opened the government, kept the government open and then allowed for negotiations going forward. its the president who had made it a point to say im shutting down this government over the wall -- chris: okay, but wait a minute. but there are real people affected, right? 800,000 people arent ...

Shutting down the government. and as chris coons pointed out to you this morning, chris, mitch mcconnell and the republicans had a unanimous support -- republicans and democrats -- for a bill that would have opened the government, kept the government open and then allowed for negotiations going forward. its the president who had made it a point to say im shutting down this government over the wall -- chris: okay, but wait a minute. but there are real people affected, right? 800,000 people arent ...

Being blamed overwhelmingly for shutting down the government. and as chris coons pointed out to you this morning, chris, mitch mcconnell and the republicans had a unanimous support -- republicans and democrats -- for a bill that would have opened the government, kept the government open and then allowed for negotiations going forward. its the president who had made it a point to say im shutting down this government over the wall -- chris: okay, but wait a minute. but there are real people affect...

Government for border security. . the people of this country dont want people with drugs. the last time you shut it down, it didnt work. im going to shut it down for border security. >> so to take that and something else, what does the world see? it is like the immune system facing a virus it has never been seen. with no apparent end game but their total surrender, this is a case study in failed and erratic lip. is it dangerous around the

>> we disagree. >> i am proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck, because the people of this country dont want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into a country. so i will take the mantle. i will be the one to shut it down. i will not blame you for it. the last time you shut it down, it didnt work. i will take the mantle of shutting it down. andly shut and i will shut it down for border security. >> take that and one more piece from mike gursen ...

It is because they dont to want surrender our property. there are some eminent domain issues here that the president has brushed aside so far that really might bog down this entire process, even if he uses some emergency power to try to get it done. imagine if you are a property owner in a border area that doesnt have a security issue, and i get tired of portraying it as if its all monolithic, that all the folks on that border see it the same way or face the same security considerations, because...

That money that would provide real border security that seems like a better way to go and the government shutdown to hardball these people that will come back to hurt them. chris: [laughter] but if nancy pelosi says tomorrow we will give you the money tomorrow she is thrown out as a speaker the caucus would not stand for that of the president tells the base i gave you that then his base turns on him so is that a surrender to lay down those instruments for but whether