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Shutdown. except that's not really true. >> right, it's not really true. but there's no question that the president maintained this issue as the dominate issue in washington and in this round got more than the democrats said they were willing to give. it's more sort of what he wanted, it's far, far short of what he could have gotten as an overall immigration deal last year. but to your point he's so transparent in the way to say, look, i've got a base problem here. i've got people who sold out on this thing. what he wants to do is create all the sound and fury and say i've got more for the wal...

For a resolution deal immediately. amy klobuchar is going to be for the new green deal before she was against it. appallishi elizabeth warren's tax. president trump seized on that to begin to define the party as not an acceptable alternative. >> republicans seem to have a bit of their own base problem. "the washington post" reporting house republican leader kevin mccarthy blames republican loss of house majority on the gop healthcare bill. specifically the post says he told donors behind closed doors after several freedom caucus members lost, he was focusing on recruiting candidates who would ...

Pressure on. hold on just a second, juan. what he has to do to keep himself level 42020 is do something on health care to help him with the suburbs. this is not a base problem for him. the as to whether republicans right now, we need to make sure that we do something. >> sandra: what republicans unite behind the president if he did go with declaring a national emergency? >> it may be the only option that we have. are we going to have everybody on board? well, nothing is 100% in america. >> bill: if you declare a national emergency, probably a court case in a matter of 5 minutes, which freezes ...

>> again, it speaks to the complication about immigration in the republican party. polls show that 60% of republicans support immigration broadly conceived. it's a minority position in the republican party that immigration legal or illegal should be outlawed. people sent back to where they came from and all this. it's just that for the people who care about it, it is a dominating issue. for the people who are totally fine with it, or pretty fine with it, they got other things they think about. this is not something that they vote on in reverse, like they're not going out to vote for immigrants...

Heller, why is he there? dean heller has a base problem and a swing vote problem. ted cruz has a base problem and a swing vote problem. trump, there's nobody to help you with the swing vote problem, so you go with trump? >> trump knows how to rub a base election, he has that gut connection with his followers. republicans have put themselves in a position where they're already in danger, if not already have lost the middle. so in order to prevent that blue wave from appearing, in order to prevent the bottom from falling out, you need your base to show up. >> there you go. >> heller's in a tough...