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Washington dysfunction. >> including just town the down the road in washington. he recalled how his late father, a republican congressman, called for nixon's impeachment. >> despite tremendous political pressure, he answered the demands of his conscious. >> if that is not enough, take note he is also reportedly going to iowa in just a few weeks. >> let's continue to set an champls for washington. >> they last voted republican in 1988. but is he too moderate for this current version of the republican party? we'll be back with more "mtp

Time now for the lid. panel is back. carol lee, peter baker. i want to put up a full screen of somebody's work today that peter baker is familiar with. it happens to be from the "new yorker," and susan glasser's washington letter. it was her lead that sort of got me and it sort of gets us into the shutdown here, guys. almost every day since trump was elected someone somewhere has asked if this is the constitutional crisis we have been waiting for. was this firing of the fbi director james comey in what seemed to be an effort to stop the investigation to his chain the constitutional crisis? or ...

Or the next day or the next week. >> peter baker, at some point, elected washington leaders that are not named donald trump, you'd think, might want to act. >> well, it depends on what you count to be action. the truth is elected leaders to some extent have acted. they have, you know -- they have not actually gone along with president trump on his full agenda. they have, in fact, taken actions at times that were, you know, made a statement. they did, for instance, a few weeks ago about saudi arabia after the khashoggi murder. and you know, we'll see that obviously more in the future with the d...

New era in divided government begins in washington, and it may as well the first oversight on the trump administration begins today. we are seeing not just oversight, but nancy pelosi has made her case crystal clear in terms of the government shutdown. she sat down for an interview that aired moments ago. let me play what she says about funding for the border wall. >> are you willing to give him money for the wall because apparently that's the sticking point? >> no, nothing for the wall. we are talking about border security. >> nothing for the wall -- >> well, we can go with this back and fort...

Has control of any branch or any part of elected washington, so that's a big deal. obviously, it goes without saying, even more of a big deal given the fact that she is up against donald trump, and, look, i have heard from so many people who said that when she did have trouble about a month ago, she really did have to shore up her caucus, and she had to make changes, promise she would not be there forever among other things, and they said who is as experienced and as tough as she to go head to head with somebody like donald trump? >> dana bash, thank you so much for bringing that to us this mo...