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Taking the pressure off of lawmakers to fix the program before trump's march 5th deadline. at the risk of sounding like a broken record, will congress revictim gragz before the next shutdown deadline, do you think, in march? >> yeah. we've talked about this issue it seems like every week. >> i feel like it's a regular running theme. >> so, you know, what i'm hearing from my sources is that one potential possibility is that at the ends of march, there's a big omnibus and they could put 7.6 billion or a little more in border wall funding along with an extension for three years of protection for ...

Like it was yesterday standing outside of then speaker john boehner's office when the government shut down because of ted cruz and obamacare and him going after his fellow republicans for being like lemmings because they were following the conservatives. and he's like a different person. >> nancy pelosi calls him ryan stooge. >> well, i don't know. it could be somewhere in the reversal at this point. i mean, i think paul ryan understands the importance of everything you were talking about, the importance of sources and methods and intelligence. he gets the highest level briefings as the speake...

>> it's -- it's -- and it came up again and again in really descriptions of the interactions with him and i would say the thing that bothers -- >> this is staff talking to you? >> yes. >> saying it's changing and changing over time? >> yes. i would say the thing that bothered them most, because you didn't know how to deal with it, is the repetitions. he just repeats and repeats and repeats and hammers on -- it's not even hammering on a point. it's the same story. he tells -- you know? always has an anecdote. and then he will repeat it and he'll repeat it in the same words, the same expressions...

Imagining this. and then you hear it a third time. and then everybody -- and then a running theme was to chart this. okay. used to be three stories in 25 or 30 minutes. and it was three stories in ten or 15 minutes, same 3 stories. and if you're working with the guy you come away and -- i mean, what do you think about this? how do you, you know -- none of these people, you can't diagnose. you can even -- it's even hard to discuss it among one another. >> there's a moment in the book where roger aels suggests john boehner as the white house chief of staff and trump says who's that and he used t...

Descriptions of the interactions with him and i would say the thing that bothers -- >> this is staff talking to you? >> yes. >> saying it's changing and changing over time? >> yes. i would say the thing that bothered them most, because you didn't know how to deal with it, is the repetitions. he just repeats and repeats and repeats and hammers on -- it's not even hammering on a point. it's the same story. he tells -- you know? always has an anecdote. and then he will repeat it and he'll repeat it in the same words, the same expressions, the same tone and you think, well now wait a minute. when ...