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The white house has come down but for both sides now this is a base issue. democrats know trying to block trump on a signature promise is pop you wlar their voters trump known being seen as backing a way from a wall is critical. >> what's your sense going into the new congress? >> it's appropriate the meeting is in the situation room because it's quite a situation. i think trump has respect for pelosi and i think he wants to deal with her -- they've been back and forth this week, who is a better foreign make a deal with, nancy pelosi or chuck schumer? i think they're making a mistake

Brett kavanaugh's numbers being milquetoast and about a third of the public, including a third of republicans, didn't have a strong feeling about whether he should be confirmed or not. post the hearing republicans are rallying around him. trump's voice of support contributed to that. however, the other thing that's happening is independents are turned off by this whole thing. we did a poll. we did dial tests last thursday during the hearing. among people that did not have an opinion on kavanaugh's confirmation going into the hearing coming out of it they broke 60/40 against the confirmation. i...

Illegal immigrant before upstate new yorkers. >> that tells me plain and simple they are worried. democrats have this enthusiasm and economy is not motivating their base, they need to use that to try to intrude republican rally the base issue to turn out voters. >> that seems smart actually, the talking about the culture issues and national anthem, that seems to me like you look at the data, wages are still stagnant for a lot of people. unemployment rates are low in the trump areas, people are not -- a lot of economic growth is happening like in washington, d.c., not in sort of rural areas of ...

That carrot and the stick analogy, whether or not the president becoming tough is enough to answer back to the swamp. i mean, look, you have both chambers with republicans saying no shut down before midterm. >> lisa: i think president trump is doing this because the democrats are in the minority and charged up for the midterm elections and trump knows immigration is a huge base issue. what president trump is trying to do is get the republican base up charged up and ready to vote in the mid-term elections. think he knows republicans and the democrats will ultimately come together on a spending ...

American people have been after decades and decades of crisis after crisis including the most current one, being completely ignored. you talk about them getting comfortable in d.c., we talk about the swamp becoming the jacuzzi, the hot tub, sitting around, hanging out. doing nothing. so the bottom line is, the president did run on us to get elected in 2016. it is a base issue but also an independent issue and leading up until now, we had this immediate crisis happening right now, i was listening to it senate judiciary committee on the board of crisis happening today and congress has no solutio...