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There still trying to figure this out. the tension for president trump is always going to be, the thing that excites his base turns off the rest of the country tired of this polarization and this wall issue, immigration issue has become so polarized in the last month of and a half since the shutdown. president trump has to deal with candidates like beta orourke and others, who will challenge him on the wall but will challenge him on tone and challenge him on a broader message about economic oppo...

Voters. the issue is how many straws are drawing from each pool and which candidates w candidates can consolidate their lanes faster is important deciding this race. there is a significant block of older voters and moderate voters. >> two points i want to make. counter intuitively, everyone says the democratic party is getting much much younger. thats not really the case, is it? >> no. 60% are over 45 in 2016. thats true across every group, white women, black men -- it still tilts older. millenn...

Predicting what he will do is impossible. >> its less mileage for a border barrier he could have received last spring and less money than they would give him in december. the president esdoes hadoes hav option to stand up to sean hannity. he doesnt have to do what he says and says we can keep paying the 800,000 workers. >> stop your crazy talk. >> it is very interesting to watch this going forward. we are literally glued to our computers this morning waiting to see if the president tweets. i was...

Orourke said to jeff he will be making a decision by the end of the month. what did you see here? >> i saw a campaign by metaphor. thats what 2020 is going to be a lot about. because this issue has not been solved, comprehensive issue to solve the border and dreamers and because government has not been able to solve this problem in a comprehensive way since the last best chance when president bush had good ideas about it. this is a campaign issues out there and the wall is the most powerful meta...

The presidents wall issue is a base issue on the right. theyre going to have to make a case of who bears more of the blame for shippiutting the government down. but i i do think democrats get more than they had before after several weeks, especially with the issue of knowing the democrats have supported a wall in the past or border fencing in the past. its all about how it gets defined. how failure gets defined. >> it is also interesting, kirsten, as were watching this, you are seeing democrats ...

Ones that pressured the president into getting the last one over with, they do not want another shutdown. democrats dont want another shutdown. they never have. so that reality is different than the last time around. however, we are at an impasse that is over something that is different than where we were last time, that the barrier/wall issue had almost been resolved. richard shelby when he talked to reporters thursday said the white house gave him some flexibility to work around that, and demo...

Moment nothing in washington is going to get done until this wall issue is resolved. the white house had been saying for days that the president would offer some kind of way forward. i didnt hear one last night. i heard basically the same thing that has been said about this issue for the last six weeks, and so in other words today and tomorrow its not clear to me that there is sort of a plan to get through this. maybe were just waiting out the clock until the 15th and we can be staring down a sh...

The white house. that wall issue may be on the bargaining table this weekend. the acting chief of staff with lawmakers up at camp david this weekend. >> all right. thank you. lawmakers will be paying very close attention tonight to see how the president deals with the border wall issue. republicans are deeply concerned that that order could come some time after the speech. whats the latest youre hearing? >> it is a revolt that president trump has on his hands, significant that it is brewing from...

We have been global leaders, a president who advocated that there were people on both sides in terms of the charlottesville tragedy and that some neo nazis were certainly some good people within that group. this is a president that is absolutely incapable of having the empathy and integrity necessary to bring about unity within this country. and i think in the what the members in congress and their invitees to the state of the union, youre reflecting how angry the electorate is around what this ...

Ends. but he seems to really want to hold on to this. but for 2020, its going to be an issue for them. because remember, virginia is a super tuesday state, and the 2020 democratic candidates are not going to want to campaign in that state and appear next to him. >> right. >> so, that will be so unprecedented. >> yeah, absolutely. okay, lets get to the state uft union, and ill start with you, sean, on that, because there is a headline that donald trump is to call for unity in the state of the uni...