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Unprecedented ways. and that's why, bottom line, lawrence, this is the reason why this week we'll celebrate the nine-month mark of trump's presidency. handy is the first president ever to go nine months without a single major bill passing the congress. nine months, 0 for nine months. that's because of how donald trump is handling all these relations with congress. >> let's listen to bob corker today in his way trying to explain to the president that these senators are all elected. they're elected in their own right. and bob corker didn't get there with any help from donald trump. and donald tr...

Mind. let's listen to this. >> last week was obviously provide a lot of entertainment for all of you. but i'm back up here this week. i've got issues to deal with iran and issues to deal with north korea. and then we have the budget issue, which prepares us for tax reform. so i'm up here on a policy basis. you know, i'm not here leading some group to do certain things. i'm one senator. each of us has an election certificate, and i speak my mind, and i'll continue to. >> norm, i've never heard an answer like that because it's kind of like explaining how -- a senator explaining how i got here to...

But what i think is really interesting here is i've talked to republicans who say i don't recognize this tom price. i didn't know this is who tom price was. and, you know, i remember the adage the fish rots from the head. whether we're talking about tom price, whether we're talking about scott pruitt's $25,000 phone booth, whether we're talking about some of the treasury secretary's plane use, when they look to the president, they're seeing someone who is hardly a portrait of fine ethics and who along with his family seems at times in ways subtle and unsubtle to be using the white house as a t...

This up, the senate and house, and pass legislation that would protect these 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers who have come forward, filled out all the forms and said they want to work with the process? >> it's not like they have room on their to-do list? right? so much stuff to do. tax reform. obviously. dealing with the debt ceiling. limit dealing with budget issue on their plate and not a lot of time to do it. i don't necessarily see there's a lot of urgency among republicans on capitol hill to get something done on this. you have had leaders in the party, people like paul ryan and johncornyn saying, ...

Government shutdown of 2013. if anything, they learned they can come away from what appeared to be politically catastrophic move and win seats, which is what happened in the mid term elections of 2014. on top of that, building a wall and enhanced border security are not terribly unpopular items with the general public, so you couple that with the fact that donald trump's base is not going to care if he is seen as the one shutting down the government. they don't like government, they will cheer him on if he does this. in terms of political cost, it is hard to see at this point how a shutdown wo...