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That one can use as leverage? is this just a game of chicken and someone has to move first? >> it will be interesting to see who blinks first. there's a calendar. these gentlemen have been in the senate for a long time. they're institutionalists in the senate and there will be pressure on them to take action and not allow the senate to look like, in their minds, a clown show in the house where everyone was doing their own thing and there didn't seem to be organization. but the fact that president trump and nancy pelosi are part of this proxy battle will make it harder for those two leaders in ...

Who do you think has the best shot and who is the most closely aligned with the president ideology? >> i think brian hook mostly because he's at the state department and he's as pompeo aide. secretary pompeo is one of the most influential people in the trump orbit at this point. i would argue the most influential cabinet member. what i see what's happening is a proxy battle to see who can take over the slot. i think mulvaney, he would love to stick in that slot and pompeo would love to stick brian hook in there. and so it is really going to be sort of a fight among people to put their person i...

The stage need to have a moment. a lot of them are going to drop off. people like hicken looper at this point are barely holding on. in terms of raising enough money. i think that the four main candidates are the ones to watch. particularly warren, sanders, biden and harris. particularly kamala harris because at the core of her argument is this idea that she can be prosecutor and chief. and prosecute the case against trump. she has to use every debate as a proxy battle for what that would look like. and prove to voters who are still not quite sure if a female candidate should go against trump....

>> the best case scenario is nicolas maduro agrees to leave and there is some kind of safe departure to a third country that is frustrated and perhaps working with russia and china and guaranteeing his safety. than is the best case scenario because humanitarian assistance would come in and the venezuelan people would elect a leader in a democratic fashion. and not only does nicolas maduro not want to leave, but china and russia don't either because they don't want the united states to get more of a foothold. it is a simmering proxy battle between the united states and russia and maduro and the...

Imagine national security adviser bolton is considering is not just how maduro will respond to enhanced aggression by the united states but how vladimir putin is going to respond to aggression. there are russian assets in venezuela right now, along with cuban ones, that are propping up nicolas maduro and so as we think about what other options may be on the table, the military option, that the president and john bolton have thrown around which frankly has no legal standing. more aggressive covert options which could really escalate tensions in the country. all of those are going to be met by, ...