whatever side wants to win is going to have to decouple the emotions of the argument and point out the pragmatics. final question here. any insight into how long the shutdown could last or the partial shutdown? so it really could go on for a while. i don t think that s incredibly likely. if nancy pelosi makes it clear she is not going to make a deal trump s best bet is showing off the political theater of it and showing that if he is willing to compromise and willing to give the democrats something that they ve advocated for, for a long time in the form of daca amnesty, then democrats don t take that, that s something that he can campaign on and republicans can campaign on showing that democrats have only used the dreamers as a political token. but i think it seems unlikely it will go on for much longer given the unpopularity of a shutdown and don t look like either side is too willing to budge. thank you for joining us.
michael. he ran on this. now he s delivering on those judges. was this the best deal trump has ever made? i think the wild card in this is judge kavanaugh s integrity. this is a thing donald trump never knows how to plug into his calculus. does this judge have the integrity to be independent minded, to rule in a way that or join in concurrence with justices who want to rein in the president s power when he exceeds it, or is he going to do as the president wishes? this is all russia. this is all about the president s concern that he s illegitimate, that he ll be either indicted or pursued civilly, and he wants to protect himself from that. so we ve yet to see whether this choice runs afoul of the president on matters of integrity. i suspect it may. how much does this have to do with the russia investigation? it s very hard to say, don,
the author of the road not taken. and cnn contributor michael deantonio. max, what did you think of the conversation i just had? that s pretty much what you d expect rachel brand to say because she s a conservative republican. from everything i ve seen, i don t necessarily line up ideologically where brett kavanaugh is. i m more of a middle of the road, but he certainly seems to be well qualified for the supreme court. he has an impeccable pedigree. the case for confirming him sees pretty strong. you know, to my mind, that still is not an argument for why donald trump is a great president for reasons conservatives think he is. they need to recognize they re paying an unacceptably high price to get the kind of judges they want. and the judges that any republican president would appoint. this is what he ran on, michael. he ran on this. now he s delivering on those judges. was this the best deal trump has ever made? i think the wild card in this is judge kavanaugh s integrity.
the trump campaign meeting with this ruggen financier who s close to putin and what can george nader tell mueller about it. michael cohen has been privy to every deal trump has made in the last couple of decades. if he ever entered into business with someone tie w ties to putin, he would know about it. so of course he s a valuable witness and now he might be in the position to be flipped and cooperate with mueller. what struck me this week is that mueller s people are stopping oligarchs at the border. they re grabbing them saying let s see your computer, your laptop. they start going through it. this is pretty aggressive stuff. the element of surprise is quite helpful in their, to their advantage in this instance, but i agree that mr. cohen is not only in the middle of it, with daniels, he s either violating his ethics rules with respect to his lawyering or he s not telling us the truth. one way or the other, he s
people who really go out of their way, above and beyond to be model citizens. many of them are superachievers when it comes to school and academic achievements. many are first generation graduates working hard to make sure they help out of the cycle of poverty. many participate in the military. to say they are lazy when they goat up and risk really being arrested in protest and peaceful marches in order to demand rights it s just simply wrong. maria, when president trump ended the daca policy he created it was a march 5th deadline. though it s more complicated because there is no date when the protections will actually run out? do you think there is going to be a viable deal by next month? well, if there was going to be a deal trump is not helping in any way. for decades now republicans and democrats have been trying to reach some kind of an agreement on immigration reform. and they haven t been able to which is probably the reason by