of making a mistake to provoke a confrontation. on the other side, it is a big question, and what is the strategy here. you have a more robust line taken by the administration or the trump administration and to what effect, you know, they didn t like the iranian nuclear deal but it did keep iran in its box and kept the region a little quieter and this position of we re not going to allow iran to become a nuclear power. we have now heard that for going on 20 years, and it has not been achieved through military means. there have not been great military options. that s where we find ourselves for the potential for a hawkish administration to do something differently. phil, david, jackie, thank you all very much. overnight this was this dramatic back and forth between jon stewart, and mitch mcconnell. mcconnell told fox news he does not understand why stewart was bent out of shape over funding for the 9/11 victims compensation fund.
commitments. so joining us now to talk about all of this news, we have david gregory, cnn political analyst phil mud, former cia counter terrorism official, now cnn analyst, and jackie ckucinich, cnn political analyst. let s start with what the president first tweeted overnight, that millions of immigrant families here undocumented will be rounded up in the interior, we re not talking about the border now. we re talking about people already living and working here. will be rounded up next week and deported. this i guess is his latest effort to punish immigrants and hope that trickles back to guatemala and honduras, and stops people from coming to the border. again, there s so much bluster in this, and we have seen it so often from the president, whether most recently, a threat of tariffs against mexico to get them to try to crack down on their side of the border, and the flow of
which is confirming this justice. but it s still the stakes are still politically enormous. and thinking of the stakes, jackie, i found it really interesting that senator claire mccaskill, a democrat not on the committee, said she s officially a no on kavanaugh. she said it has nothing to do with these allegations. she s coming out even before even any of this has been resolved with her official position. what position does this put red state democrats, you know, some of the folks for everybody even before these allegations came out, does it make it easier or harder on them to decide? you know, i think for several of them, a lot depends on whether professor ford testifies, frankly. right now, when these allegations came out, it became easier for them to say no if they wanted to because this was outstanding. whether or not you think what the republicans are doing is fair or unfair, should she not appear, it makes it harder for
incendiary thing throughout this entire period. and i think that is both a testament to the fact that, you know, there is some restraint when it comes to this president. but whether that restraint can hold through two maga rallies, one in vegas and another one the next day, is a real question. and i think that may help to shape what ultimately happens. ron, i want to get you in. i have to run to breaking news. i m so sorry. i really appreciate it. ron, michael, jackie, thank you guys. we have breaking news right now. we re being told, seeing some live pictures. i m seeing them for the first time from wjz out of baltimore. this is aberdeen, maryland. the sheriff in hartford county, maryland, says a mass shooting has left, according to the sheriff, multiple victims. initial reports right now are indicating that five people have been shot, three of them fatally. this is unfolding in the city of aberdeen, about 30, 35 miles north of baltimore.
disarray after contradicting his own white house statement yesterday, made it enormously more difficult for paul ryan to pull his caucus together and prevent a shutdown. so, jackie, paul ryan has this c.h.i.p. problem now that the president has thrown this bomb this morning and senator mitch mcconnell has the bomb of we don t know what the heck the president wants. listen to the senate majority leader. i m looking for something that president trump supports. and he s not yet indicated what measure he s willing to sign. as soon as we figure out what he s for, then i would be convinced that we were not just spinning our wheels. this is a republican majority leader saying we re spinning our wheels because of the republican president. extraordinary? extraordinary, but, a continuation of what we have seen in the past. listen, people like mitch mcconnell and paul ryan can t twist arms if they re going to be undermined by the white house, by a tweet. and let s also not forget on the