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Just in the last two hours he's done four tweets where he's threatening to close the southern border and cut off aid to guatemala and el salvador and honduras where he says another caravan is going. two things could happen or more at the same time. congress could maybe carve out something, some fund or something is needed, that's an easy vote. people could show out we're starting out bipartisan, if there's emergency funding to help on the border, to show that they're not leaving children in terrible medical conditions. and yes, it's a base play for both. and yes, i can't predict how this will ...

That, he thinks that's is going just agreed. let me tell you something. if that worked, then i would suggest tonight would be an even bigger shock that 2016. >> the last two years have been about donald trump and his personality, the ability to control the conversation, and he's using that power over the last few months to talk about himself and his accomplishments. and you think think the chief among those would be the economy. we have that jobs report on friday. the friday before election day. but alas, the president is picking a base play in a lot of places where he needs to broaden the map...

On that last week. they tried to get the economy in the last week but it's really about a base play for them at this point. >> by the way, president obama, one of the better surrogates trumped only by -- no pun intended -- trumped only in georgia by the oprah appearance. president obama is in the fairfax county district where you see barbara comstock challenged by jennifer wexton and tim kaine. barack obama has been a big weapon here. what the president decided to do, jim, and is to violate his own principle of not criticizing a successor. why do you think that he decided to come out so strong...

In that case it remains to be seen how much of a difference this will make. and tying it back to the rhetoric we've heard from him about the immigration and such, part of it is -- it is a base play. no attempt to grow his area of support. and that plays into the two houses of congress where, yes, this is undoubtedly costing him votes. it may cost him control but it may in some ways, help with the senate map which is more of his concern. these are red states largely. he's trying to keep control of the senate, flip a seat or two but make sure his senators maintain that control. that's the priori...

Comparing the ad itself to george h.w. bush's willy horton ad in the late '80s. what is that designed to do? >> clearly the president is trying to rile people up to kind of put the vitriol higher than it already has been. he continues to stoke those flames, really make a base play for voters that are upset or afraid that this is what is going to happen if immigration reform is not changed if his policies aren't enacted. >> i want to play something else, play something from this jonathan carl interview. this is president trump ironically speaking honestly about his relationship with honesty. >>...