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Battle against the trump administration to limit its key initiatives. joining us now is one of the attorney general actively engaged against president trump, democratic attorney general mark herring. let's talk broadly and get involved in the cases you're involved with including obamacare, epa, daca, a long list of them. what specifically prompted you and other democratic attorneys general to enter this fight in this way? >> well as democratic attorneys general, we have a real opportunity, in fact, i would say responsibility to serve as a check against a president and an administration that ha...

Chuck schumer went to the white house to meet with the president. they were afraid they were going to get rolled here. remember what happened in september when schumer and pelosi went down on the interim spending bell. they kept the government open in december with almost no drama. the speaker of the house and mitch mcconnell basically didn't have anything to say about it at the end of the day. but we don't have that deal right now. again, all of these government shutdowns are very organic. we don't know what is going to happen. when you have the trifecta of government shutdowns in 1995, 96, i...

About the institution of the white house itself and what is happening to it right now. in a lot of ways when it comes to tone and tenure of the white house, we really have clawed our way to the bottom. >> let me ask you, president trump had an ambitious legislative agenda coming into office. so far he's been able to deliver on only one major legislative victory, this tax bill, and there have been a string of high-profile failures along the way. the republicans control congress, they control the white house, why do you think this president has had difficulties that president obama didn't have w...

Base, right to strip out obamacare, and really, you know, just poked a sharp stick in the eye of the democrats. the problem after that is once that happened, the democrats said, you know, why should we want to work with you about that's the way you want to start this presidency? but i don't think we can underestimate the tax bill is a big deal. it's a big win for the republicans and for donald trump. you know, they got it done before the end of the year and maybe rushed it through too quickly. maybe we'll see that in the long run. but right now at the end of the year, republicans can say we ha...

Shark's stick in the eye of the democrat. so the problem after that, once that happened, we want to work with you if that's the way you want to start this presidency. but i don't think we can underestimate the tax bill, it's a big deal. it's a big win for republicans and for donald trump. and they got it done before the end of the year and maybe rushed it through too quickly. maybe we'll see that in the long run, but right now at the end of the year, republicans can say we have relative peace, we have relative prosperity. and for us, given the way things start out, we are happy to end on this ...