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Is the southern border has been a place for commerce where day in, day out there's a lot of commerce that goes back and forth between the two countries with certainly goods going back and forth but also people who are working on both sides of the border and his claim is that by shutting that down, that would deny mexico the ability to make that money and he says the u.s. has always been on the short end in his view of the nafta free trade agreement which he, of course, has updated as a new version of that, signing it earlier this year. so the president talking about the southern border kind of...

Florida if there was a shutdown to this point. he's tweeting a bunch, and he's now saying i'm going to shut down the southern border altogether, which to most people sounds like a heck of an empty threat. >> i think it's almost impossible to do given the economic realities. i think he just needs some leverage point and he's trying to keep the focus on the fact that the debate is about the border. and he does have the bully pulpit here. >> but isn't fake leverage no leverage? >> not here, not when you've got people writing stories about -- this is the first time a republican president has manag...

President well before our own department of justice did, so while we look at what happened during the campaign, i think we also have to think about what impact it may have had on on-going russian policy when president trump got to the white house because again he knew that russia and vladimir putin was well aware of the lies which are a leverage point and bribery point well before our own government did. >> shan, the government supporters will say this didn't go anywhere because michael cohen didn't follow-up and there was no actual meeting with this person or someone else about the moscow pro...

For lunch yesterday and mitch mcconnell, while i do not hang out with him on weekends, i tend to not bet against him. >> you don't get everything you won't. there's no leverage in a shutdown. especially for republicans. first, republicans, aim agreeing with elizabeth warren, they're in charge, right. so the dleverage of a shutdown used to be who got the blame. shutdowns are meaningless. nobody notices them. >> local businesses in washington, they suffer. >> true, but i mean politically like as a point of leverage for passing negotiation. yes it hurts the local region where i live in northern v...

Romaine lettuce, e-cigarettes, and drug prices. an interview you will only see here on "the daily briefing." ♪ >> harris: two days from now, house democrats will hold their leadership elections. nancy pelosi facing opposition, nine democrats on the moderate problem solvers caucus threatening to vote against her for a speaker if she doesn't back some proposed reform they say will discourage partisan gridlock in congress. power panel back, interesting. >> i think these people are smart for doing this. if you're in the negotiation and you want to try to get in at the beginning or end of the pro...