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Thursday. we will see the senate follow suit shortly thereafter. that is significant because democrats have been pushing for one week. that would put us so much more shy of the holiday season. i was reading this morning how busy this fridays expect it to be. by the way, we have proven as a country via our government that they don't do big things well. so, why can't we piecemeal this? why can't we do the wall system, which is what you are talking about? even the president has called it that. you can put a structure in every place. you fill in with ice and the border patrol where you need to. we...

Those box checking things come along with it. that's a fabulous thing, to have women and people of color or whatever. but, merit-bases where we need to be right now. >> steve: of course that's right. the real serious goal would be to eliminate any barriers to people moving up. >> harris: there you go. >> steve: wherever they come from, whatever the background. whether it's gender, race, everyone on the right should support that. that's what opportunity is all about. but all of that is out the window because the definition, these days, of the democratic party is the hate and anger. the women's ...

We know about john kelly saying the stuff about him in the woodward book is not accurate. >> exactly. it all happened in 24 hours. i think that is of note given that everyone else. don mcgahn walked by the cameras and didn't say anything. that is not necessarily an admission of guilt. when we walked back he made sure he said it isn't me. you can dismiss this as box checking. we know this is a president who cares about this. >> a high level official regardless because the "new york times" wouldn't have -- >> they wouldn't have gone through the angst if it was just an unknown official. >> this i...

Days away from the mid term elections. the president as we have reported is -- and all that that means in terms of the ability to investigate when the democrats, if the democrats have the majority and what it means for his agenda more broadly. and i talked with so many republicans as i'm sure all of you have, as well, who are focussed on some of those swing districts particularly in the suburbs where this kind of reminder of the chaos is the worst thing for these candidates. >> very quickly on that image of all of those senior officials who issued public denials directly or through spokesperso...

Back and fight in jihad. and all of this has to do with re-election -- i call it box-checking. closing policies, closing gitmo, see what we can get done. >> this doesn't exactly rally the base. >> in a very big way it does. >> i think it's backfiring. i think a lot of democrats are distancing, including the senate intel chairman -- chairwoman, dianne feinstein, who said it wasn't good enough for the white house to apologize today. but it's hard to say. there is compassion that needs to be considered for the family and whatever he went through at the time. >> yeah. you never know what could hap...