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Midterms, that both parties view it as kind of a harbinger of the upcoming election, a finger in the wind where we should invest a lot of money in this outcome. and whether this whole episode actually affect the outcome. if it flips this to democrats, because there is a backlash against what happened down there, there is a lot here to play out. we'll just have to see whether the parties view it as a worthy investment to go fist to cuffs here. >> it depends who the candidates are if it becomes a proxy fight, how much money they put in. when do you think they might have the special? >> probably ...

Was this in any sense some sort of proxy fight between bezos and the saudis, or did the saudis see it that way? >> can i raise the obvious here. >> yeah. >> which is not meant to be overly complimentary to you or your colleagues a the poe s s a but here is a brutally murderous regime that does all sorts of things to its own people and human rights as "the post" has documented on khashoggi, and they appear at a minimum very shook and impacted by just the power of the words in the reporting from this paper. >> absolutely. i mean, one thing we've learned about mbs, as he is known, the de facto le...

Dealing with this shutdown hangover. some of them still have not gotten their back pay. some government contractors are still not back to work two weeks now after that last partial closure ended. this thing could just stretch into the next one. >> this is why it's unclear how hard democrats are going to fight for this issue. >> right. i think one of the things you saw was democrats came out unscathed. this has been pushing off the funding fight, pushing off the fight on the border wall has been a two-year fight, a proxy fight for who is controlling washington. i don't think there's an appetite...

President maduro and his chavez brand of peasant populism. >> we saw john bolton at a white house briefing where he was holding up his yellow legal pad. we've got a tight shot of it there. he had reference in his handwriting to 5,000 troops going to colombia along the border. there were a lot of denials. maduro today on moscow television, which is state tv, mocked that and compared him to a sitcom character in latin american television who is known as dr. chap atin who is a quack doctor, mocking the national security advisor. i mean, this goes from, you know, ridiculous to the serious. but the...

Plenty of countries have been facing the ill effects of the maduro regime's criminal activities. neil: including the rank and file military guys. the generals, that's where there's a split. >> exactly. correct. from the level of lieutenant colonel on down, basically they are going home to starving children, hungry, you know, angry wives, dying children from a lack of medication. they are suffering everything venezuelan people are as well, which is why the offer of amnesty is on the table and they should take it. now, what happens is further on down the line, as more and more people recognize g...