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Senate. he is in for an onslaught from the democratic house. we are not mentioning the other investigations going on. he believes they can be a useful foil. he thinks he can run against them on issues of the wall, if he doesn't get it now. it can be something he uses for his base. this is what you wanted. the democrats are saying no. try to use that propelling himself into 2020. >> the conversation we have surrounding the shutdown is who is at fault for the shutdown. the president is calling this the, quote, schumer shutdown, even though he said he would be happy to own it. the white house and...

Graham defended the president's approach toward the mueller probe. he's pushing himself as one of the closer allies in the senate, but left room to break with him on things. we saw that with syria. he's critical with trump's decision. >> now saying he is confident with his decision. >> trying to have it both ways. learn new things, but the president was going to slow down the pace. garrett is right, we shouldn't take anyone's position on this, seriously, unless it is from the president himself. lindsey graham can float the deal. if it looks like the white house is going to negotiate. they are ...

And border patrol. they need to come to the table and do their job, a fully functioning democracy demands they come together and congress and executive branch work together. >> i'm wondering, is this strategy going to work? it did not resinate when it came to the midterm elections. >> it certainly can't work for long, especially if house democrats are able to pass a bill that would end the shut down and the republicans are faced with deciding whether to agree with that without funding for the border wall. it's complicated. the president said he took ownership of the shutdown, he was proud to s...

Moving, we have to keep the democratic base energized. he was clearly impressed by the democrats who have been working with republicans the past few days. we have to put an end to this, we have to put this forward. and he didn't go along with the progressives who i'm guessing we're going to see some of them, voting no on this. he certainly, as you said, is going to hear from a lot of those progressives that he gave in and he gave in too soon. >> i don't want to get too far ahead of what we're watching here because the united states government has been shut down since 12:01 a.m. saturday mornin...

Funding roadblock on friday. so they're in exact ly the same position that they were three days ago, and it's not clear to me they got anything except for the bad press that accrued to them from this shutdown. >> they're bad. the democrats' bet is that by november when there is an election, this will be forgotten if the government reopens. if the president is still popul popular, that's what will carry to november, not that we had a shutdown. that's their bet. we're having this conversation in the middle of january, by november this will be long forgotten, and then the question will be, did th...