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The cameras and make a case and shut down the government to get attention for their cause what, about the receive mode? it's my sense the public generally hates a shut down. when a shutdown happens they want blame -- they want a bad guy, not a hero. >> yeah, it's a sign of government dysfunction and you know, rumor has it that we americans have an election about nine months from this week. and i think one of the things that voters will say in november is, who is responsible for government not doing what it should, one of the ways that they will answer that question is to look back to the shutd...

The senate republicans should be more like deficit hawks. >> if that's the transmit mode in terms of why a showboating member of the house or showboating senator might want to get up in front of the cameras and make a case and hut down the government in order to get attention for their cause, that's the transmit mode. what about the receive mode? it's my sense that the public generally hates a shutdown and when a shut down happens they want blame and not -- they want a bad guy not a good phi, not a hero. >> yeah. it is a sign of government dysfunction. rumor has it that we americans have an el...

You were talking about at the time of the clinton shutdown or rand paul this morning to go on in his case the senate floor and make a big speech in favor of his views on taxes and spending saying that the senate republicans should be more like deficit hawks. >> so what's the -- if that's the transmit mode in terms of why a show boating member of the house or a show boating senator might want to get in front of the cameras and make a case and shut down the government to get attention for their cause what, about the receive mode? it's my sense the public generally hates a shut down. when a shutd...

>> no, not really. as long as donald trump is not going to lead on all of this. by the way, just think about this. a few weeks ago we were close to having a bipartisan compromise and the president blew it up with his "s-hole" comments. it was a week ago that the president gave the state of the union address where he talked with unity, coming together, and now he's referring to the democrats as treasonous. look, in earth 2.0, the level of government dysfunction that's represented by the failure to be able to pass any sort of a spending bill would be the dominance story, the dominant theme out o...

Clinton was mired in scandals. with a degree economy despite him and because of him with the internet and stuff like that the market was rising. you can dislike the guy just because of that. bush was will loved and that he was the most hated president at the end. all of his policies involving us all is because we entered a recession right near the end of his term. if the stock market keeps up and trump can do anything even if it's staying out of the way and solving government dysfunction to get this economy working that's what people care about. do they have a job. can they go home after work ...