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To undermine indirectly mueller's investigation. i think we actually have to stand back and say we're talking about the national security of the country. we're talking about the fbi saying as a counterintelligence agency that there are real reasons to be concerned, including around continuing interference. and an effort, an effort to undermine the way our institutions of government function. and primary to that is the fbi and its counterintelligence and law enforcement functions. so i think we actually have to see this as a whole and think about how taxpayer dollars get expended to understand ...

Going on. that's where a lot of the base is taking their cues right now. it used to no collusion, nothing happened here. this is going to be done by november 2017. now it is there wasn't any specific collusion by the president himself that i know of. maybe he knows it and maybe some people around him, but look over there. there is a reason for that. >> and just one other thing to think about for a minute. all of this stuff is happening. nancy pelosi is trying to make government function there are just going to be a -- so many other things that disrupt this conversation as we go forward in the ...

Functioning, there is the president and the president is responsible for making the government function. they don't look as you and i might with co-equal branches. >> and that goes to mitch what you said earlier. and putting aside i'll cancel your speech and i'll cancel your plane and we're in the cancel wars. here we go. one of the star new members of congress, congress woman aoc as she's called is out there leading the charge. >> from the bronx. >> it is a bronx night. and leading the charge and saying, look this isn't just donald trump again. this is mitch mcconnell and the democrats arguin...

Wall of sorts in exchange for daca? >> so friday marked the longest shutdown of our nation's history, and, you know, hundreds of thousands of federal employees got a paycheck that had a zero on it. and so this manufactured crisis that has been designed to really distract us from the destruction and the criminality of this administration is one that seems like a bizarrely written script from "house of cards." the only difference is that this president and this administration is not as creative or strategic or entertaining as frank underwood. so i know that the democrats are interested in doing ...

Passed the congress the other night or the house were passed by the senate, or at least four of them passed 92-66. the other two bills came out of the appropriations committee with a 31-0 vote or a 30-1 vote. so, democrats and republicans in the united states senate have worked together to try to forge that compromise. those bills were that compromise, i think, jake, and that's what people are forgetting. i think one of the things is, you know, mr. mulvaney talked about semantics, and i agree with that. it appears to be that the president wants to negotiate about reopening government, and demo...