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Schumer. he has been talking with trump and sort of back channelling with him throughout the shutdown, i've been told by my sources, but i think that many people at this point, given the lack of strategy coming out of the white house, think that the shutdown will end when a deal is cut between mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, and that's when it will really be done. >> we'll look for it. what we like to think as the fastest 15 minutes in television with thanks to our guests tonight. to tamara keith, to tim o'brien, to nancy cook, we'll have you all back. thank you for startin...

The russian oligarch. is he key to the collusion case? >> absolutely. he's essential to it. this is someone who disappeared from american politics. went over to ukraine. and got in bed with pro-russian party and eventually one of the russian oligarchs. and all of a sudden he goes missing. and owing millions of dollars. and then the guy shows up, running donald trump's presidential campaign. you don't need to be a sherlock holmes to be to look at that set of facts and say huh. this guy putin was protrump in the election. should we look into the manafort situation? of course. and then he's back ...

Open. so the democrats are coming forward. so, you know, it may end up being the debate that trump always wanted, i guess, which is wall or nothing. >> very quickly here, what they are saying, at least the white house says where is congress? why hasn't the speaker kept members of congress there in d.c. to work on this. you've heard it before, he's saying i'm here in the white house. i'm waiting. >> this shows a real lack of understanding of the way that governing actually happens in washington. the president should not be having the first conversation. there should be constant back channelling...

The crown prince whisperer, the guy that has his ear. you think that he would be the face of the administration's pressure campaign on the saudis. >> well, he's falling back. he's fading into the background, at least as far as we can tell publically, and that's intentional. he wants to step back because there is an understanding on his part and also within the white house that it would be damaging for it to be seen that jared kushner was back channelling with mbs on this situation. in the early days of this story, you know, one of the first things we learned was that the crown prince had actua...

The extent the focus is entirely on kavanaugh and misses the larger environment that his nomination comes out of, the scrutiny that the special interests behind the federalist society have give an list that the president originated and has followed, the dark money operation that is operating right now to try to pave the political path for him to confirmation, all the funny right wing groups that turn up before the supreme court as so-called friends of the court filing amicus briefs, funded by these same special interests, this is a very smelly special interest network that is operating through...