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Self-serving white house. it's not a big surprise that he had a haphazard and self-serving inaugural committee. the biggest reminder is when we're talking about foreign involvement in the trump campaign, foreign involvement in the trump organization, it's not just an issue of russia. there are countries often hostile to us or with different ideological or different foreign policy agendas who have sought to influence the president and those around him at every step of this enterprise. >> question to you, michael, six days until congress has times to avert a partial government shutdown. the pres...

Now what we have is democrats saying that they will stand in the way of funding the government unless their policy demands, which is legalization for daca recipients, is granted. i think we're going to see is do republicans always lose shutdown fights or is it the party that's trying to attach its own demands to government funding? does that party lose spending fights? >> tom cotton from arkansas sent this out. democrats are threatening to shut down the government if they don't get amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants. see how that works out for them in some places. that's a clear refere...

That is basically, explicitly, the ted cruz strategy at this point, and i think it's a pretty smart one. >> well, look, i think that ted cruz has a couple of really strong assets about his personal conservatism and his record as being a guy who is a very iconicic person in the senate, which means he's hated in the senate. and largely for reasons having to do with launching these shutdown fights without a real plan to win them. just to do them, but right now, he's trying to leverage his position as a very hard conservative, by being donald trump's pilot fish to the great white shark that is dro...

Significant effects on the economy. i think people largely agree if you look at the polling. but i would also make another point about the nature of debt ceiling fights versus shutdown fights. there were about ten shutdowns over the course of the carter and reagan administrations. they lasted about a week to ten days. there was one significant debt ceiling fight. actually came after water gate when ted kennedy and water mondale had a debate in the wake of watergate. i would compare that very much to what we're seeing now. one party that views this as a threat, an issue that has to be handled r...