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Migrants illegally crossing at the southern border. 5-4, with john roberts siding with the courts liberal wing. meantime, partisan think gear continues over the shutdown. a centered around the demand for substantial border wall funding. house, freedom caucus chairman blaming democrats for the lack of immigration reform. >> yes, they do say that they are for border security, but for everything that does not matter when it really gets to sanctuary cities or case law, or a barrier, or asylum reform...

>> its wide open but you hear a lot of comparisons to president obama. do you think he has a future? >> i think he does. the question is whether it will be in the united states senate. what i took from that poll is that those voters were also saying they want experience. they believe they need an experience candidate to recover. >> to put the country back together. >> thats not entirely consistent with beto at the top of the ticket. >> i think its pretty telling at this point how much air time b...

Quite frankly what ultimately made the day and why democrats came over -- on affiliates came over and voted for this president. they know that was the central theme for part of this campaign and they just dont want him to fulfill it. when we look at that, yes they do say they are for border security, but they are for everything that doesnt matter. when it gets to sanctuary cities or case law or a barrier or an asylum reform, they are an absolute no each and every time you can look at the voting ...

New acting chief of staff in the white house, mick mulvaney. who is mick mulvaney whos going to be the presidents right handman? this is mick mulvaney. he serves as director of the white house office and budget. he served as acting director of the consumer financial bureau. prior to joining president trumps cabinet, mulvaney spent six years in the house of representatives. mulvaney aligned himself with the tea party caucus, his voting record paints a clear picture of his values. he strongly oppo...

The consumer financial protection bureau which was basically put in place to dismantle. prior to joining president trumps cabinet, he spent six years representing south carolinas 5th district in the united states house of representatives and there he aligned himself with the tea party caucus and a founding member of the freedom caucus and the voting record is a clear picture of the values. opposed obamacare. the affordable care act. voting to repeal as republicans did. he supported an amendment ...

Of these independent voters. >> that may be what the most important part of this is as youre looking at it. its not a bernie and beto thing, there is this notion that everyone is running to the left in this democratic primary. there is a rush to the left, but these numbers suggest it may not be the left thats the place to go, its the outside thats the place to go. >> exactly right. remember, we go back to this liberal side. it was a tie. hillary clinton was seen as liberal enough by most people ...

The missing piece, trumps tax returns. >> thats it. >> if we had his tax returns, it would be the roadmap to not everything, but i know from talking to people in the irs and in the trump organization, that is the key. and even though he refused in 2016 to release them, it would be great if somebody were to get them. i tried in 2016 and failed and regret that piece is not there. i mean it would be like somebody -- a senator running for president and you say, whoa, you cant have his voting record,...

What youre looking at is race that doesnt have very good polling here. it would be an upset if mike espy were to overcome the advantage that cindy hyde-smith has here. i want to juxtapose the situation that were having a conversation that the mississippi senate race is even close to begin with. thats in large part because of those comments from cindy hyde-smith. i talked to a woman who considers herself a republican who told us shes going to be voting for mike espy because of the direction the r...

[ inaudible ] >> kate, smith refused to say what she was apologizing for. could this energize republican voters or the opposite? >> it could energize republican voters in mississippi. coming to cindy hide smiths defense. they feel shes under attack. her team has used president trumps talking points. this is an attack by the liberal media, kind of a smear campaign against her. the president will be in mississippi tomorrow to rally his supporters, his base, which is also her base. she has really r...

Trying to protect the special counsel. >> exactly, and he has a whole book that hes written talking about his conscience and how as a true conservative trump has really troubled him, but john, i think youre exactly right. the history of his voting record doesnt quite line up with the aura around his reputation as some kind of maverick willing to buck his party. i remember very vividly, i think an example that sums up a lot of jeff flakes career, during the gun control debate after sandy hook whe...