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Protect sources and methods to separate any legitimate redactions from any politics the white house may try to impose. >> this is neither here nor there, but why do you have to share a nickname with bob corker and marco rubio and kim jong un. >> the last one was sleazy, now it's little adam schiff which is an improvement is he warming up to me? that's also continuifusinconfus. let's bring in chris cillizza and associate editor for realclearpolitics a.b. stoddard. it was interesting as i was listening to the ranking member talk to alisyn about the member. in a way they're precasting aspersion...

Avlon and associate editor and columnist for realclearpolitics a.b. stoddard. a.b., let me start with you. why did donald trump do this? is this donald trump the deal-maker and party be damd. >> i don't think he woke up yesterday morning and decided he wanted to be bipartisan. there's a lot of poison in the well right now. it was really as bad as republicans thought it could be with the president attacking republicans over the summer when they got back from the august recess with all this work to do in 12 legislative days. this was beyond their imagination. he basically wanted to do something ...

He did issue a statement which, among other things, referred to podesta's testimony which las not been made public. that statement says, i'm confident that podesta most likely repeated his lie that i knew in advance about the hacking of his e-mail, and i am anxious to rebut this falsehood. i'm still unhappy that my testimony will not be in public, but believe it's more important to resolve the question of russian collusion with the trump campaign which i believe was non-existent. after podesta's committee appearance, by the way, he did at least refer to the obama administration's handling of r...

Realclearpolitics a.b. stoddard. a.b., the president has, as of this morning, tweeted 13 times about caravans of central americans heading to the u.s. border, 13 times since sunday morning. sunday morning, interestingly, was the morning that "fox & friends" weekend first talked about the caravans of immigrants heading towards the u.s. border. what's interesting, a.b., is that we often talk about, well, do the tweets matter? are the tweets just venting? it has actually turned into policy. the president is now sending national guard troops to the border either because people got in his ear -- we...

Official that chous aides are planning to be in this building working as usual today. it's unclear why the president isn't going to sign it immediately. paul ryan's office says that bill has been delivered do the white house this morning already. it is possible, i should say, that the white house could want to do this publicly. the last time the president ended the government shutdown, he signed that bill in private. if he shows a public ceremony, it would involve getting the press in the room. and maybe he might make a statement about the bill, in part because it includes so much of that defe...