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Senator? >> the president is more determined than ever to get something on it makes sense we will not take peoples guns away from them. i own an ar-15 i lawfully own a gun. if you took my gun away the bad guys will not give up their guns. it is the person with the gun i'm focused on. we want to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people who are hateful or mentally ill. the red flaglegislation grants the state to have these red flag laws , the president is focused on that. working with senator joe manchin we can enhance background checks. the guy in philadelphia has been convicted six or ei...

An issue is important to the president's base, and he is digging in on this as he is heading into the new year with the democrats having control of the house. and today, president trump is sort of digging in on the demand for border legislation, and take a look at a his tweet from earlier this morning ashs and the republicans and the democrats must come together finally with a major border security package to include the funding for the wall, and after 40 years of talk, it is finally time for action and fix the border for once and for all now. kay the ti, yesterday he threatened to shut down t...

They said it would stop family separations. thus far their draft bill doesn't actually do that. so what you're seeing is the president and some republicans using this outrage about family separations to say actually we should get all of these other policies that we've beenushing for, including ones that the president listed that have nothing to do with family separation. there's no reason that changing to a merit-based legal immigration system should affect these families at all. they're saying if you're upset about this, then give us everything else that we want. >> i look at the description ...

Blows up politically. he acknowledged himself he wants to use these child detainees as leverage to get democrats to give in to his demand to fund his border wall and enact tougher border legislation. >> well, more on paul manafort next. president trump defending his former campaign chairman on the same day he is sent to jail over allegations of witness tampering. >> manafort has nothing to do with our campaign. but i tell you, i feel a little badly about it. they went back 12 years to get things he did 12 years ago. i'm a four-year-old ring bearer with a bad habit of swallowing stuff. still wo...

Impromptu fox news interview. >> i'm looking at both of them. i certainly wouldn't have signed the -- i need a bill that gives this country tremendous border security. i have to have that. >> that confused a lot of folks, reporters certainly but also members of republican caucus on capitol hill. we got a statement from the white house yesterday. "the president fully supports the goodelatte bill and the house leadership bill." help us understand quickly what the role of the president is in all of this. how important is his public support for a piece of legislation. >> he is hugely important. a ...