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This christmas spirit seeing democratic extreme partisanship forcing a government shutdown. that's a decision for chuck shumer. he's meeting with his caucus. >> earlier yesterday secretary mattis essentially put in a letter -- >> dana: all right. that's ted cruz. talking to some reporters there. we're gonna jump back and get back to chad. from a communications standpoint, senator ted cruz can make an argument very well. these are the lines and the words he's using. they're trying to paint the democrats as extremists and that the republican issue is the commonsensical one, and that the democrat...

I think it was maybe baked in the cake. the president, from a communications standpoint, very smart not to reveal he was going to fire jeff sessions after the press conference that he did for 87 minutes. he gave a couple tales. one of the things was throughout the press conference, the president said over and over again the mueller investigation is costing the american people too much money. it's too expensive. matt whitaker is on record saying it's within the power of the attorney general's office to whittle down the budget of the special counsel. i don't know if that's what's going to happen...

Breaks apart that coalition and is counter productive. >> let me put up the map of where the president is heading in the next six days. mark, when you look at this, does this map tell you the white house is giving up on trying to keep the majority in the house? >> i think if you look at where the vice president is traveling, he is traveling to many more of the house districts. i think there is a differentiation. the president as you know often does the much larger rallies whereas the vice president is focussed more on some of the house districts. >> from a strategic standpoint, do you think th...

Where is all of this heading? >> dana: i think that what the president is doing is saying -- this is an issue that we should talk about. it's an issue that we talked about on the campaign and we should do something about it. i don't know if he specifically is saying that -- well, he said he could do it by executive order. i don't know who told him that maybe there is a piece of it that he could do. there is no doubt this has been a debate within legal circles for a long time. john hugh who worked with the bush administration teaches at berkeley thinks there is no way can you do this without an...

Legislative policy on a good day. is it really riling things up? >> it's turned an already chaotic and dysfunctional white house on its head -- >> hold on, from a communications standpoint, yes, sarah huckabee sanders -- >> -- we know from the times reporting last night that trump convene add meeting with his own son-in-law to take a loyalty oath. they've pondered putting their own staff through polys. >> like the boy scouts, i love you, donald trump, now and forever. >> and promise to be good. >> exactly. >> they pondered polygraph tests. they have pondered making them sign sworn affidavits. ...