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When vice president pence was supposed to go to the zelensky inauguration and though youre not going now. rick perry went instead. but hes insisted the conversations had nothing to do with these conversations. now there are emails saying actually what we talked about, theres a follow-up on that. its only going to raise more questions for him. >> as you point out for republicans, there havent been any -- we heard all weekend republicans coming out and saying the talks points weve been hearing eit...

Impeachment here. and its fine but once you think that you would have some republicans expressing deep concern, youve had a couple. that guy, rooney, he said it, but where is this going to go? and are any republicans going to look at this oar ar are they go to be steam rolled and are they going to be told, you do this, youre going to pay a high price? its going be a really important thing for republicans to have -- >> i think theyve already been told that. i mean, you look at the talks points in...

Right now the political strategy is this, dont let the base erode. that is it. because if they let the base erode, they will lose in 2020. >> and to that very point, i got a peek at the rnc talking points that go out every week for their people who go out on television. and the talks points for this week were authorized by diamond and silk. true sorry. diamond and silk are out there, this is all just a witch hunt. like that is the strategy. it is true. and i dont understand. and it is going afte...

The white houses message out there. the president really is his own communications director. hes the one setting the white house communications strategy and what he does often is he repeats things that hes heard on fox or that hes seen on twitter from the right wing personality that is he follows. to that point, i would contend that theres been talk why doesnt he have a war room? he might not need one. a right wing media machine defending him between 24 hours a day really serves as a war room. i...

5,000to 6,000 troops south to protect their border, that is question what are the troops actually going to be doing? so we dont know at this stage because everything is wrapped in a mystery that trump says is coming later. all we do know is that the mexicans at least of this weekend claim there is actually nothing that new on the table. they concede a lot of great talks points to the white house because donald trump was trapped. he had promised a tariff. everyone if not democrats, republicans to...

Happy birthday. >> a little girl hears her sisters voice for the first time. what happens next might melt your heart. good morning, welcome to "early start." im dave briggs. >> and im christine romans, its wednesday, january 16th. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. president trumps nominee for attorney general, in an unnotably un-trumpian appearance in a hearing. barr split from the president and his aides on several talks points, among them disagreeing with the presidents claim that the special couns...

Vladimir putin, something he tested when he annexed crimea in 2014, he wants the breakup of nato, the split between europe and the united states. it goes back to july of last year when the president went to nato, he burst out of the meetings and declared he had gotten everybody to up their commitment to nato. and the next person, president macron, saying no, thats not what happened. its either the president doing putin a favor or treating geo politics like a business transaction in new york city...

>> dana: zach, one of the things she said last night, too, was she gets asked, how are you gonna pay for it, but that no one questions how we would pay for someone like a space force. is that a good argument? >> well, i think there is the biggest challenge for this is going to be when you want something this broad, how you are going to pay for it. the realistic thought, how youre going to get something through both houses of congress, especially a senate thats not going to favor this and a presi...

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Economy. but they are just the latest republican lawmakers caught in the vice that this president so often puts them in. where he -- on the world stage or with his twitter account, puts forward platforms or puts forward policies that have essentially nothing to do with traditionally republican talking points or platforms. peter mentioned those talking points that the white house distributed today. ive not heard any republican lawmakers using those talks points. i stead what weve heard so far is ...