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They were cooperative during the russia investigation. they ll be cooperative during this inquiry. that flies in the face of the facts. as you and i know, the white house has been dragging its feet and did drag its feet during the russia investigation. never offered the president up to the mueller team for in-person interview. they had to settle for written answers to questions. there s no reason to believe that this current team that s around the president advising him on impeachment will act otherwise. jim acosta, thank you so much. whatever the president said tonight, the white house put nobody on the sunday news shows, no one. we on the other hand have three political analysts. david gur begin, kirsten powers and jim bernstein. you heard him describe the atmosphere in the white house. he fumed all weekend on twitter. do you see any coherent strategy coming together here? reporter: no, i wouldn t call it a coherent strategy. ....
Partisan and third it was okay and now it is not going to happen. you are seeing simply they don t have a strategy here. a coherent strategy. so compare this to the democrats right now. you have nancy pelosi and adam schiff doing press conferences alone with a very targeted and narrow message for where they are going and the republicans are all over the place because again as sarah said, they are just afraid of the president. he has a strangle hold on the party and i think frankly what you re seeing is the death of the northeastern moderate and sort of the voice within the republican party that would have challenged the president 20 years ago, it is not there any more. stick around. nonl none of his aides told him a member of congress can t be impeached. turn on my tv and boom, it s got all my favorite shows right there. ....
There and i think that by and large, both the bush administration, the obama administration, and the trump administration have laid out a pretty coherent case. we re there because of the rise of terrorism, because of the o propensity of these groups to take over territory. imagine today if iraq were conquered by the islamic state. not inconceivable. afghanistan would be a terrorist super state right now if we hadn t gone in there. and let s remember, frances, we ve reduced the number of troops there from somewhere near 300,000 in iraq and afghanistan at peak to somewhere around 20,000 today and 95% drop. we re leveraging our allies, partners, and friends. that s a coherent strategy. the mistake i see in it at the moment is walking away from syria. that, we should not be doing. yeah, and that s the understanding of many americans, really need in knowing the reasoning bind all of this. you got the second item when it ....
Winning one. eshlg whpecially when it com this triple fight here he s got when it comes to the special counsel, the southern district of new york as well, then the new york attorney general, so stephen, ahead to 2019, how is he going to stay afloat with these, you know, when it comes to kind of a trifecta? he certainly is going to have a lot of different legal challenges coming at him from multiple different directions. you re absolutely right about that. but he is unique in one respect. there is at least some authorities suggesting, although it s not quite clear yet, that a president a sitting president can t be indicted. so, from his perspective, it s not the legal court he s worried about. it s the court of public opinion and the court of congress with potential impeachment. and that s why, you know, what we just heard, it s it may be an unusual strategy for a normal client, but for a president, throwing up some confusion and, you know, banking it all on hoping that there wo ....
Speaker and then see if he can actually blame her. i think that s a misguided strategy but i think that s his strategy. that s the thing when it comes to the number, the names, steel slats, fence, you know, barrier. force field. exactly. joe, what do you make of the fact that nobody seems to know what the president is willing p willing to accept and will take? that creates a problem. it means this thing could, as rick said, drag on for longer than anyone would wish for it too. there are americans impacted by this, not just federal workers but the grantees, full-time contractors, americans who depend on these paychecks are now in limbo because of this unfortunate shutdown. it could drag on for weeks. we ve also heard from incoming white house chief of staff mick mulvaney, he s saying who is to blame for this. let s listen. this all comes down to mrs. pelosi s speakership. ....