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>> in any shutdown situation you need two parties to tango. so instead of trying to blame either side, both sides are doing this. howie: i have seen conservatives say the president does own the shutdown because he uttered those words. but the democrats aren't moving. aren't the democrats playing to their base which they feel they can show up on this issue to the president which is so important to them? >> i think democrats want to speak to their base. when it comes to the shutdown and the way it's reported. we are talking about the shutdown based on the main campaign promises. it's about detai...

>> in any shutdown situation you need two parties to tango. so instead of trying to blame either side, both sides are doing this. howie: i have seen conservatives say the president does own the shutdown because he uttered those words. but the democrats aren't moving. aren't the democrats playing to their base which they feel they can show up on this issue to the president which is so important to them? >> i think democrats want to speak to their base. when it comes to the shutdown and the way it's reported. we are talking about the shutdown based on the main campaign promises.

Deal-making. we're right now in a position where right at this point in president obama's presidency, he made a deal right after he got shellacked in the 2010 midterms, he made a deal with republicans where he got repeal of don't ask/don't tell in exchange for what republicans wanted, which was an extension of the bush tax cuts. it's not a shutdown situation, but here in this shutdown that we're in right now, president trump has not done the same thing even though he's supposedly the great negotiator, of offering democrats something that they want, which they might give him something that he w...

Kathryn randel. let's start with you and talk about this item that you wrote in the post. you sum it up by saying the only way to deal with donald trump is not to deal with donald trump. house of representatives should democrats approach this shutdown situation? >> i think basically what they need to do is to ignore him and assume that anything he says he may as well change his mind on, maybe he'll claim -- commit to viee vetoing something, maybe he won't. you can't trust him. he's totally inconsistent, reverses himself all the time. they should just power ahead, whether it the stopgap funding...

To avert a government shutdown. the president reversed himself this morning on insisting on funding for his mythical border wall, after conservative media freaked out over the white house backing down, nbc news citing a source close to the president who described trump as 100% in a tail spin over the shutdown situation. stock market plunged again today and nbc news reported robert mueller is nearing the end of his investigation and expected to submit a confidential report to the attorney general as early as mid-february. with everyone in washington scrambling to figure out what's going on. geo...