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>> yeah. the polls show it. we showed earlier. >> actually, more americans would blame the democrats right now. it is basically even. 34% to 32%. but they are staking the future on the fate of the d.r.e.a.m.ers at the moment. >> they are. and they are doing itnort of an unrelated bill which is the continuing resolution. but it is their only leverage points. it is is one of these things in an ideal functioning congress you wouldn't do this. but we don't have that and haven't for a long time. this is the way that the minority party seems to exert its power. i'm kept cal that in the longview, and...

The president convened multiple groups, brought folks over to the white house. it takes a little more time. what we did today -- or yesterday in the house in regards to health insurance for kids for six years, 30 days of government funding, that's a reasonable compromise. let's get the kids out of the way. let's make sure we're focusing on the bigger issues. we have the opportunity to do that. >> when you say, let's get the kids out of the way, we talk about chip all the time, talked about nutritional assistance, how do you isolate this into just a continuing resolution on an appropriations me...

Whole world. according to the "washington post" president trump has a gentlemen's agreement to chuck schumer to take the debt ceiling vote out of the hands of congress. you used to be, as we talk about often, a tea party fiscal conservative congress. do you support that taking that out of the reins of congress? >> i was in the meeting with senator schumer. he'll be back again tonight at dinner and i'll participate in that as well. what the president told me after the meeting, pulled me aside, said how do we depoliticize this, stop letting this get in the way of proper management. this is a b...

Refugees, and china kind of likes the fact that there is american soil over there, and they are also a source of cheap labor for china, so china does not want to be defending college students being killed for no reason. >> dana: so you think that china will step up? what are the leverage points that we have? >> this has creeped out in the last week, south korea and japan are saying we want nukes as well, china does not want that on the peninsula in that area because that means that this is trying to push one country to push another, and that is a very tricky hat trick to pull off. >> dana: wha...

This. in terms of a decision to make, how should the u.s. respond beyond the defense development we discussed sf. >> i think it's extremely important. i think our military posture is extremely important to make sure we have an option if, in fact, we need to. that is the almost absolute last thing we should do. the last thing is allow them to fire a nuclear weapon at us. having that posture there and finding leverage points, pressure points against the chinese to say you may be worried about mass refugees in your country in the event of a collapse of the regime, but this is making it more and m...