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So i think a lot of us intuited that john kelly was one of the staffers who was really pulling that back, and it's good to see that confirmed. but it absolutely does seem accurate that had john kelly not been in the room, donald trump might have gotten something like $18 billion for the wall and in exchange will give permanent legal status to dhaka resip yentes. >> it was kelly who called chuck schummer to say the deal is off. that leaves you with this question about this white house. who the speaks for the president? what is the administration policy? these very simple things about what the a...

Fulfill that role. >> and that's why the pushback that he gave to sessions was probably very good for him internally at the department there in the fbi where morale is so low. and they had a director who said no, i'm not taking orders about this. i'm going to run my own shop. >> gloria, david, thanks very much. coming up, a new move by senate democratic leader chuck schummer in the battle over immigration. he withdraws the offer to president trump to fund the border wall. i get a reaction from the former president of mexico, vicente fox, who has made no secret at all about his feelings towar...

Agent that they have long want and have been promised, you know, by obama, by bush, and by others. so trump is in a very unique spot, i think, where the party has to recognize that his base is bigger than their base. >> that can be a little scary to people. >> it can be a little scary to people. certainly institutions are not used to that. >> and governor, you were chairman of the democratic national committee. and i know it mainly is no matter what he says, mainly about raising money for the party and getting people elected. who is the leader now of the democratic party? is it chuck schummer ...

A filibuster. you have to be at 60 votes. chuck schumer may be on the short end of who runs the senate, but he has enough power to stop almost any crazy immigration law. >> well, he does, i think. but it's going to be a united republican front, at least initially in the house, the senate, and the presidency. >> yeah. >> it's going to put chuck schumer -- try to put chuck schumer -- >> saying we can't let somebody in the country if they have a belief. first of all, i don't know how you ban a religious people what do you do, i'm not a believer and they're in? how would you pass a law that says n...

Enough answer for nafta, for the middle class jobs. now i know there are numbers you can point to saying things are a lot better than when barack obama first took office, things were on the upswing. but if people didn't feel that, they didn't believe in it. you could put up the best candidates you wanted and it wasn't going to work. there is also a question about did the face of the democratic party reflect the base of the democratic party. were these the people that voters recognized at a time when congress and washington, you know, single digit approval rating. are they people they're bringi...