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Leash on donald trump. to raise the debt ceiling to fund the government he needs democratic votes. a savvier president would have tried to get a deal funded for the next two years and put the democrats on the back bench for the next two years. it puts trump on a 90-day leash. he has to come back 90 days from now and get their votes again and perhaps two or three times before election day 2018. this means the democrat will be relevant. they will have leverage and be able to bring their preferences to the table and have some power this dealing with trump. that's what the democratic leaders very ...

Our old and new. look at the people who everybody knows. household names when it comes to democrats. joe biden. he's 77 years old. bernie sanders, 78 years old. elizabeth warren, 70 years old. then, let's just -- not ages up but tell you most of considerably younger. not all, most. and certainly new faces from pamela harris, talking about, to korey booker, terry mcauliffe, andrew cuomo, seth moulton, congressman from connecticut. so we have this, sort of bench. maybe it's a back, back bench but it's a bench and at least people are sitting on it. what do you make of that? >> listen, if democrat...

Election. she had a 17-seat majority in this building behind me, and she decided to gamble that, for whatever reason -- historians will figure it out later -- and she lost. now she is having to align herself with a party that's in northern ireland that most people believe is fairly obscure and will extract as much leverage as it possibly can with ten seats and not necessarily in the same vain that britain might want to be going forward. we don't know what kind of leverage they'll have over this government. but the other obviously huge issue is that the europeans are not giving any slack. these...

Okay? >> you know, it was all right when jeff sessions was a back bench sort of crank in congress who was spinning his crazy theories about how we were destroying the country with the wrong kind of immigrants in his crank world view. but now he is the attorney general. so his crank world view is now the official policy of the justice department of the united states. >> an island in the pacific. >> he can't help himself. i bet he doesn't understand that hawaii is a state. i bet you he doesn't. >> former congressman david jolly, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> joy...

Keep the government open, you better believe there is not a single dollar to build this great big wall. and there is going to be every single dollar that schumer wants to pay for subsidies for obamacare. nothing has changed under this president despite his rhetoric. >> let's take a look at one of the conflicts that this administration has had with the courts and what jeff sessions had to say about this. >> this is a huge matter. i really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the pacific can issue an order that stops the president of the united states from what appears to be clearly hi...