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Them, pointing the finger and saying, you know, you cut a deal with a deeply unpopular president, doesn't that -- aren't they potentially shooting themselves notice foot? >> yes, i think that's exactly right. the democratic congressional campaign committee is wary of democrats in congress doing anything that's going to prompt hard left primary challenges to its incumbent democrat. so they want to pick their battles very, very carefully. or really sort of pick their alliances very carefully. i think that democrats very much want something done on daca. and they have to make a decision about to ...

Very little incentive for democrats to do a deal, either because they're going to prompt, you know, primary challenges or because it strays from the message which they see as a very strong one, you know, which is this is a president and a congress that is so hard right, that is so out of the mainstream, that they need a democratic congress to be a check on them. so there's not a lot of incentive for democrats to deal. other than not shutting down the government. and that's the bind the democrats are in. because they don't want that outcome and they do have a commitment to keeping the governmen...

He believes in his twitter account. he believes in sending a tough message. but he has people around him like, you know, rex tillerson, like the national security team, you know, like the economic team, that is going to be very reticent to allow him to just sort of escalate this into a trade war. >> i want to bring the focus back to domestic policy now and look at what's next on the horizon. president trump is set to host congressional leaders at camp david for the first weekend of the new year. among the topics of conversation, you have to imagine that some kind of budget deal will come up. w...

No judgment as to how long it took them to ask for support. i don't know that they thought they needed support prior to that time. i don't know how this attack unfolded or what their initial assessment was of what they were confronted with. i do know that our logs indicate an hour after the contact, approximately, they requested support. and then i talked about the timeline of the french response. that's just what i know right now. i'm not going to tell you that in the investigation we won't find out they attempted to get support and it didn't come. i'm just telling you what i know. everything...

No judgement as to how long it took them to ask for support. i don't know that they thought they needed support prior to that time. i don't know how this attack unfolded. i don't know what their initial assessment was of what they were confronted with. what i do know is our logs indicate an hour after the contact approximately they requested support and then i talked about the timeline of the french response. that's just what i know right now. i'm not going to tell you that in the investigation we won't find out that they attempted to get support and it didn't come, i'm just telling you what i...