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Not being paid and the rest of the country. that's a long way of saying i don't know and i share your question. >> james, i want you to get to your third point because it's equally important. tell us the third point. >> the third point is that there really is not any crisis except, number one, the political one for trump and the humanitarian crisis of people being trapped by this. i first did my long cover story for "the atlantic" about the border in 1983, during ronald reagan's first term. and even then you had the idea of fences in certain populated areas, you had other parts of the border t...

By reince priebus and departing current chief of staff general john kelly, he or she will face many challenges as the trump administration moves into the second half of the president's first term. curt bardela, a huffington post columnist and geoff bennett covers the white house for us. thank you gentlemen for being with me. geoff, we heard from deputy press secretary a few minutes ago. what did he have to offer on the chief of staff position? any new insight? >> reporter: he didn't say anything that would help bring this endless guessing game to an end. look, earlier this week president trump...

Of news. mark meadows is sending signals he's not at all interested. and mulvaney and mnuchin are also signaling they might have a hard time getting to yes if asked. to your question about the back story on airs, sources say the talks between them broke down over the time frame. the president wanted airs to commit to a two-year deal to fill out of the rest of the president's first term. ayers already promised his wife they would take their family back to georgia at the end of the year. the talks broke down over that issue. there's a lack of clarity over whether or not he would have hiring and ...

Agree on? that is the question. joining me on set, michael steel, former spokesman for john boehner and senior former advise to jeb bush along with my panel. hi guys. >> hi. >> michael, senate ma jojority leader says i don't think it's going to come to a shutdown. i think lawmakers will go able to avoid it. here's the question. how? >> i don't think they can. look, the first rule that they shut down is the side that loses it is the side that seems to be rooting for a shutdown. so you always say you're going to avoid it. you always say you're doing everything possible to keep the government ope...

Continued, that was started by reagan, and it set off a boom, one of the greatest in american history. it lasted into his son's first term. that is something that he is not rrped for the way he should be. >> the biggest beneficiary was president clinton. >> one of the most interesting things we see is people that have big losses, is that sometimes -- i don't besmirch them, and i understand it must be very tough to lose a national electi election. >> he dealt with it with self-depp indication, and he -- that lovely letter he wrote to bill clinton, teaming up with