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Finding out, when they took control of the house was that they would use the debt limit, which is important to be extended for our united states to be used as a leverage point against this president for all of the things that he is doing. regulatory lay, building a wall, so this deal that secretary mnuchin did it with schumer and nancy pelosi extends the deadline and ensures that nancy pelosi surrenders her arms, surrenders her only ability, her leverage point, to have what we call legislative appropriations bill, so there will be no restrictions on the president's ability to build a wall if y...

Immigration side that need to be addressed. >> dana: probably not going to be called up in the senate for a vote? >> i did ask him would he take up the act? he said probably not. he said it would have to be paired with some enforcement mechanism or increased border security which democrats in the house haven't done. i was critical a little bit of the president's policy on his fix on immigration, or what he's trying to use as a leverage point. i think it's worth pointing out here also, dana. i support a dream act. problem is what are we seeing as one of the huge causes at the crisis at the bord...

Negotiations because he thought he could renegotiate things with china. that slows that down. it begs the question what will the president do if he's not going to have the face-to-face meetings with the chinese leader. and it begs the question what will happen outside of the area. china has been a leverage point to get north korea to the table. there's always things happening, china exerts leverage over north korea. you can't silo off of any these relationships. if you have a slowdown, a fullback, suggested it might be more complicated to talk not just about the bilateral issues but about the ...

Proposals. the president has offered nothing new. and now the supreme court has taken one leverage point, daca, off the table, they're now protected, that's a good thing. so, you know, the republicans have got to figure out that they're going to have to override this president. in the long run it will be a good thing for this congress to check the president, reopen the government and then move forward. they should set up a six-month escrow account for federal workers so in a future shutdown it would cost nothing, because it's an escrow account, and they should suspend and forfeit the vice pres...

>> you know it? i think that the markets are waiting for this piece of uncertainty to go away, and the fact that we are now getting some tidbits of where the conversations may be is empowering some people to think okay, maybe we will get a deal sooner rather than later, but let's not forget, these are really big issues, as we have discussed. we are talking about the transfer of technology, espionage. you know, we know what has gone on. so i don't know that these issues are going to be so easy to resolve in such a short time. and i know that the president is using the tariffs of the leverage po...