going to go crazy? i don t think your republicans on the hill will do anything. one thing that donald trump has has one consistent m.o., buying time. that is what a counter lawsuit is for. it is not if he can t win in the moment, buy time because maybe down the road something changes. something else happened at the hill at the time this broke that makes me think this is a bizarre way that cornyn are trying to save mueller. grassley and graham and cornyn and tillis put out a release calling for the attorney general to appoint a special council to help the inspector general investigate the fbi. now i know this is going to be a back but if sessions agrees to do that, does that buy him time to stay in his job? yeah. it could. and it would save mueller. it would potentially save mueller. i know that is a it is. but if you look at the way republicans have handled this, the one one of the main things that has kept them from
uh, wall street is doing well. what we did not see from our sample in the population is a change of opinion. trump supporters are just as passionate as they were before the election, possibly more. trump detractors had been given a lot to work with. bret? bret: interesting. we will continue to talk to people ahead of the state of the union. live in kenosha, thanks. a panel, showdown over a possible shutdown. time. finally, it was like the sun rose again and i was going to start fighting back now. when those patients come to me and say, you saved my life.. my life was saved by a two week old targeted therapy drug. that s what really drives me to- to save lives.
31%. republicans 26%, all of them 10%. frustration all around. you are the chief political correspondent of the washington examiner. susan page, and we welcome mike allen, cofounder of axios. mike, let s start with you. right over your shoulder, we are hearing this real mood swing, a couple of hours everyone thought the shutdown was virtually assured. now lots of hope. at the very top, you talk about buying time, which is what they will do. there s a clear reason for that. whatever the polls show about republicans, democrats, there s one person, one group that is shutdown is terrible for. incumbents. guess who is going to have to vote, republican or democrat, they are all incumbents. people in charge, voters don t like it. it s such a visible sign of the government breaking down. bret: susan, we had democrats in red states saying
also, world leaders will gather at a u.n. summit in paris tomorrow. sole topic for discussion, libya. more on that in just a moment here, but first i want to get to senior international correspondent nic robertson reporting for us out of tripoli. nic, i know we re hearing libya, moammar gadhafi is saying one thing and it s imposed a cease-fire. witnesses on the ground in misrata saying something very different so point blank is gadhafi lying? buying time, that s what it appears and judgment and we heard it from the deputy foreign minister last time, the judgment from the regime here is that they think the international community is not ready to enforce the no-fly zone and the portation of civilians here. they are saying one thing and one thing they have to get the time on the ground, misrata is one of them. the last thing this regime wants is another small pocket of opposition and essentially what they would see behind their lines. the same in the east of the
union s high representative for foreign affairs has been pushing. and, from mahmoud ahmadinejad s point of view, i think is a way of buying more time and perhaps of extracting from the west, turns better on the deal for the famous tehran research reactor which is the key point at issue, than he might have gotten last year. eric: why does the west keep falling for this? as you have said every sunday? it seems they are just playing out the clock, and, buying time. because, many people involved in these negotiations follow a mindless course of action, if they could only talk long enough to the iranians, maybe they would give up their nuclear weapons program. you would think, after 8 years of failed negotiations, they would get the point, but, that is just not the way, and from mahmoud ahmadinejad s point of view, sitting down, at a table, with representatives of the eu, the united states, and others, possibly the whole perm-5 of the security council gives him a chance to say, look, we