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So i think the big take away from this year is that trump and his base are in a closed universe. they are a significant segment unfortunately of the country. they dominate the republican party but they convince no one outside it and they are beginning to, i think, bleed support within it. so as infuriating as it is for us to sit here and listen to that, there is some solace in knowing that no one believes what he is saying who is otherwise, you know, not a trumpy and in the future i think they re going to have to pay a price once again in 2020 for this kind of behavior. e.j. dionne, what happened to the caravan? the caravan was the most exis tensi existential threat to the people and it has disappeared. this is all a lot of this is a show for trump and he believes passionately that the ....
Border wall that mexico was supposed to pay for. joining me now jennifer rubin, back with me e.j. dionne and michelle bernard. jennifer, i ll start with you first. steven miller, i think it s fair to say he s probably the most radical member of the administration left there especially on immigration. back out on the sunday shows to defend those policies and to say they ll shut down the government if they don t pay for the border wall. they should have had chuck schumer and nancy pelosi on the set to explain to him why that is disastrous and built on a mountain of lies. trump is backing them into a terrible corner because they are trapped. none of them, even the ones who are leaving, don t want to shut down the government. the one who shuts down the government is always the loser. it s an axiom of american politics. they will eventually have to reopen it and they re not getting their $5 billion. all he is doing is painting trump into a corner and saying ....
Things that raise expectations on the part of the base. so i don t know how they re going to get themselves out of it, but democrats at this point can wash their hands and say, you guys figure it out. you re in charge. e.j. dionne, at one point chuck schumer and some democrats were willing to compromise and give for border security which trump could have used to build the wall that mexico was supposed to pay for. he could have done it. now even chuck schumer, who tends to be a compromiser is saying, no. you get nothing. so i wonder where this goes. if republicans can t do it themselves while they re still in charge, as jennifer said, then what s the point of all of this? well, democrats i think still have on the table 1 billion, 1.3 billion for border security that just doesn t happen to be labeled the wall that mexico was supposed to pay for, but the republicans politico had a very interesting story this week that republicans in the house ....
They can t relegate black women to a consolation prize. e.j. dionne, they can t run two white guys. the fact that you have joe biden talking to beat tow o rourke and saying they could be a ticket, i find it hard to understand how you get voters of color if you have two white men. if you look at the 2018 elections, it s remarkable how many women got elected to the house of representatives as democrats, so i agree. i think most democrats, if a white candidate is the number one on this ticket, i think they a white male, they will be looking for a woman or an african-american or both. when you hear a lot of people kick around tickets, that s why camila harris s name gets mentioned a great deal, but i want to go back to something important that beth said i think about beto which is because he ....
Are you a smart man? i have nothing to do with russia. i have nothing to do with russia. donald trump insisted that he had no deals in russia over the last two years, but after michael cohen s plea agreement with the special counsel this week, we know that his company was secretly pushing a deal for a trump tower in moscow as late as june of 2016. and as more information comes to light, trump continues to move the goalpost. joining me now, e.j. dionne, washington post columnist and co-author of one nation under trump. msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos, nigh ra hack, and maria teresa kumar, ceo and president of voto latino. before i get your reactions to yet another rachel maddow epic explanation of what was going on, i want to play what congressman adam schiff had to play on this week with george stephanopoulos about michael cohen s plea this week. let s take a listen to this, first. when this came to light, the kremlin intervened. ....