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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20181229:07:44:00

Moody-mills, host of sirius xm woke af podcast. ali, let me start with you. here s the interesting thing to me about this just sort of politically. for the last couple of years we ve seen so many stories about trump having these phone calls, golf outings, whatever, with lindsey graham. that lindsey graham was the senator who had his ear, who was very quietly influencing the policy. i can t think of when it comes to syria and foreign policy anybody more polar opposite lindsey graham in the republican party than rand paul. it turns out maybe, according to this, the influential one on these topics ends up being rand paul. but that s really interesting, right, because it s always been a question of who has trump s ear last because that s the person who will influence the policy decision. that s why we pay attention to who s up and who s down in the white house. they ll have a win or a loss with what they whisper to the president. the first thing i thought of was lindsey graham, the golfi ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20181229:07:43:00

there will be a strong deliberate and orderly withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria. america shouldn t be doing the fighting for every nation on earth. if they want us to do the fighting, they also have to pay a price. and sometimes that s also a monetary price. so we re not the suckers of the world. we re no longer the suckers, folks. and it appears that kentucky senator rand paul may have had some sway in this, according to washington post columnist josh roggin. rogan writes that several u.s. officials who spoke to the president about the decision say, quote, they believe that paul s frequent phone conversations with trump wholly outside the policy process are having an outsized influence on the president s recent foreign policy decisions. he goes on to say that the trump/paul bromance is troubling because trump may be taking paul s word over his own advisers. i m joined by ali vitali, joseph pinion, and danielle ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20181229:00:44:00

Moody-mills, host of sirius xm podcast. for the last couple of years we ve seen so many stories about trump having these phone calls, golf outings, whatever, with lindsey graham. that lindsey graham was the senator who had his ear, who was very quietly influencing the policy. i can t think of when it comes to syria and foreign policy anybody more polar opposite lindsey graham in the republican party than rand paul. it turns out maybe, according to this, the influential one on these topics ends up being rand paul. but that s really interesting, right, because it s always a question of who has trump s ear last because that s the person that will influence the policy decision. that s why we pay attention to who s up and who s down in the white house. they ll have a win or a loss with what they whisper to the president. the first thing i thought of was lindsay graham, but also the fact that rand paul and donald trump have sort of been in lock ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20181229:07:39:00

Saidful harris is sent to them, he says they will not seat him. so lots off suspense. lots of things that are unresolved. the prospect of this being resolved any time before february and then if a new election is called, i don t know, march, april, may, something like that, this one looks like it s going to be stretching out well into 2019. so almost the entire new congress will be seated on january 3rd with one glaring exception right there. north carolina s 9th district. up next, getting out and staying out. the one man whose influence is growing daily in president trump s foreign policy decisions. it is not the secretary of state. you re watching hardball. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20181229:00:39:00

So lots of suspense, lots of things that are unresolved. the prospect of this being resolved any time before february and then if a new election is called, i don t know, march, april, may, something like that, this one looks like it s going to be stretching out well into 2019. so almost the entire new congress will be seated on january 3rd with one glaring exception right there. north carolina s 9th district. up next, getting out and staying out. the one man whose influence is growing daily in president trump s foreign policy decisions. it is not the secretary of state. you re watching hardball. you re watching hardball. (pirate girl) ahoy!!!!! (excited squeal, giggling/panting) gotcha! (man) ah! (girl) nooooooooooooo! (man) nooooo! (girl) nooooo. (vo) quick, the quicker picker upper! bounty picks up messes quicker, and is two times more absorbent than the leading ordinary brand. ....

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