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it's not the color of your skin that matters or the content of your character it is whether or not you show him respect and like him. inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics. to our viewers around the world thank you for sharing our sunday. it's day two of the shutdown and the finger point sg fierce. >> they oppose a bill they don't even oppose. we do some crazy things in washington but this is utter madness. >> the republican leadership can't get a tumultus president on board with anything and they don't offer us any compromises on their own. >> this big funding dispute is an immigration fight but republicans say they won't negotiate on that issue until democrats agree to reopen the

government. >> here's the difference ten the democratic leader and the difference between the rest of us tonight. he wants to deep the government shutdown for hundreds of millions of americans until we finish negotiating on the subject of illegal immigration. >> the shutdown comes at the one year mark at the trump presidency, an anniversary as well for women's marchers who promised a -- >> it felt like a funeral. we were all in mourning. there was this quiet solidarity. this feels like anger and resistance. >> the house and the senate will be in rare sunday session today and president trump is at the white house instead of his planned visit to his florida resort. don't bet on a shout don breakthrough. the country's leaders talking at each other or past each other as the workweek approaches as the effect of a shutdown become more

meaningful. >> america knows this is the trump shutdown. >> we are now engaged in a schumer shutdown. >> the trump shutdown is all yours. >> my favorite is still the schumer shutdown. i got that nice little ring to it. >> now your view, probably shaped by your own political leanings. it was senate democrats that blocked a four week spending plan and it was president trump who moved sharply right to torpedo the immigration deal. if you're a fan of adult decisions this probably rings true. >> we have no business shutting down the government as a bargaining chip. government shutdown should be the equivalent of chemical war faer. it ought to be banned. we have important issues that we're close to resolving. >> with us to share the reporting and their incites this

sunday, sarah mullvy. they're in session. the president's at the white house. is there any reason to believe that this will end as a quick shutdown or will it carry into a workweek? you have the government workers fur lowed. people looking for services. if this goes monday, tuesday, wednesday then we start to see the impact. >> this could go on for a while. >> democrats linked the fate of d.r.e.a.m.ers to government funding. the second stage is republican leaders in congress won't move on this issue without president trump's stamp of approval and president trump is too conflicted on the issue of daca and d.r.e.a.m.ers to sign off an a deal. until one side blinkz it's hard to see this getting resolved. and for republicans it's just an incredible divisive issue for their base. >> when you get into the workweek, when you start getting into work days, when this kicks

in. it's nice to have your ideological positions and fight for whatever political issue you feel like shutting the government down. the people who have to bear the brunt of this are not the people who had to work on saturday and sunday. even some of these more symbolic issues people not being able to get into national parks after they spent years saving for it in the past. just before we started, they closed the world war ii memorial and that was an issue when an honor flight arrived. there are going to be these moments that will are compounded not by cable news by local news and people are starting to get angry. that's when you see that pressure mounting on lawmakers to reach a deal, reach an agreement but it's unclear if that's going to happen before you see those signs of pain. >> as a private citizen, donald trump during the last shutdown said, the president's ultimate response. you have a ceo for a reason.

the president should take responsibility. we didn't hear from the president. we saw some pictures of him at the white house walking into the oval office. they showed an imagine desk. alleging making phone kauls to people involved. calling republicans more than democrats. we had a meeting with the senior staff about the celebration. we didn't hear no words from the president of the united states on the first day of a government shutdown which is remarkable. he was active on twitter and already this morning. he says this morning, great to see how hard republicans are fighting for our military and safety at the border. the dems just want illegal immigrants to pour into our nation unchecked. if stalemate continues republicans should go to nuclear option and vote on real, long-term budget. the democrats are shutting down the government. for everybody to protect illegal immigrants that's what we'll hear from the president and mcconnell. i want you to listen here, who will blink? the longer this goes on the more

personal it gets. don't go there, mr. president. >> i will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five deferment draft dodger and i have a message for cadet bone spur if you cared about our military, you'd stop baiting kim jong-un into a war that could put 85,000 american troops and millions of innocent civilians in danger. >> she's an iraq war veteran. her helicopter was shot down. she has chronic injuries baufz that. when these things get more personal it gets harder to cut a deal. >> i've been struck how personal things have gotten so quickly. there's always a personal aspect of this but the animus between mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer on the one hand and the democrats and president trump on the other hand is pretty remarkable and i think that what we've seen from the moment at

midnight when it shutdown and the rhetoric that came on the senate floor in that moment and what we've seen since which is an absence of communication of any real negotiation going on says to me that people are dug in and both sides seem to believe that they have politics on their side. now we know the history of these is that you can't predict the political fallout in the moment, but right now everybody's dug in and thinks the other sooi side has more to lose and expects the other side to budge. >> the perfect illustration of that as the fact that the two leaders didn't even speak yesterday, was our reporting at one point and i think it's just striking that you would have this happen on the one year anniversary of donald trump's presidency, a guy who got into office saying that he was going to fix the government, drain the swamp, you're not seeing any kind of leadership out of that office the way we did two weeks ago when he brought everyone together to talk about immigration and what they would do on immigration reform and the d.r.e.a.m.ers and then within a

two week span he's completely flipped, is basically invisible at the white house yesterday. that's not what leadership looks like. >> oddly that meeting and we'll talk more about the president's leadership style that was the beginning of the end in the sense the president said i want an act of love. within 48 hours he had lurched back to the right. you could see this going on for a long time. the spending issues are not the issues. it's hard for republicans. one of the issues is breaking the so-called sequester caps, more spending for the military. that's a hard one for some people. they can figure that out. the quicksand is the immigration issue which for the last decade plus has been the intractable issue in washington. will the republicans give in to the democrats? they're not going to give it to them as part of a deal but maybe a promise to move to it next. here's pressure on the republican. don't let schumer shutdown make

you blink the democrats negotiating stance is give us this amnesty or we'll make the government shutdown and blame republicans for it. the majority of republicans who favor the amnesty and even the minority of the americans who favor it should not reward this democratic behavior. you're in a midterm election year but it's all about the bases. if this becomes all about republicans need to hold conservatives, democrats need to cater to their liberal base who is going to take us to the middle ground. >> the republicans see this as straight. democrats are saying they're not going to do anything unless we force their hand and link these two things. the only way this is getting resolved if both sides can go to their base with he got a victory and the way to do that is not to have an official immigration deal as part of this. some promise of a vote. some open amendment process. some assurance the democrats can say they got out of republican leaders and say they're not

going to leave these 700,000 people around to get deported in about seven weeks or so. >> that does create an uncertainty that i think neither side is prepared right now to go into. as senator mcconnell said last week he doesn't though what the president's bottom line s. the president is key to all of this and because of his shifting positions it makes it much more treacherous for either side to say let's cut this deal where we'll get the government back open and then we'll deal with immigration and we'll have a process for it but nobody -- nobody knows quite what that means and whether it will last once it gets to the president's desk if it even does. >> this is the irony of it. the president's almost never get blamed for government shutdowns. congress gets blamed every time. this is the first time it has happened in our modern era of budgeting since 1980 where the government that's run by the house, senate and white house.

>> and by virtue of the fact it's not just the democrat that don't trust the president. the republicans don't trust him either. they want it laid out crystal clear before they step into the immigration quagmire that's effected their party for quite some time. if president trump is so different, why the same old debates? every few months about shutting down the government and this week's politicians say the darnedest things. the president had his first fiscal. and according to snl has a very enthusiastic doctor. >> at the time of examination the president of 71 years and 7 months long. his resting heart rate was a cool 68 bpm. his weight 239. he has a gorgeous coke bottle race. his heartsy -- his legs go on forever. size 12 shoe so you can fill in the blanks there. and it's my expert medical opinion that the president's got

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i'm going to make you great deals. >> i will make a great deal and lots of great deals for the american people. >> i make deals. i negotiate. >> i am going to make great

deals for our country. >> we don't make great deals any more but we will once i become president. candidate trump you see right there bragged a lot that he would fix a broken washington and he bragged it would be easy but a government shutdown at the one year mark is glaring proof washington is not fixed and it is the president who's at the center of not great deal making but of washington's constant chaos. in the past week alone he twice tweeted opposition to proposals his white house was on record supporting. his shifting positions on immigration, several in the course of a few days contributed to the shutdown impasse leading congressional leaders openly frustrated. >> 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 is for, then i would be convinced that we are not just spinning our wheels going to the issue on the floor but actually dealing with a bill that has a chance to become law and

therefore solve the problem. >> it's so hectic and chaotic covering the trump presidency, words like that we let go passing by. that's the senate majority leader the top republican, as soon as we find out what he's for. the president of the united states one year into his administration on one of the signature issues of his campaign. that is a big source of where we are right now in a government shutdown. is it not? >> it is but remember you were just talking about the art of the deal and i was reminded, you know, the ten or 11 tips that he has at the beginning of that book and one of them is to his style is to maximize the options. i never get too attached to one deal or approach. i keep a lot of balls in the air because most deals fallout no matter how promising they seem at first. that's the donald trump strategy. we all knew it. nobody has any idea what he actually wants or believes. in the end some people believe that that will end up creating space around an immigration deal

but right now it's sewing chaos. >> you've got to make a call. you can have all these options in the air. we know he likes to keep his options open on a variety of matters on the issue of immigration he's in a very unique position right now to make a deal and he needs to do this i think to keep the government open. he's in a unique position because he has credibility with the immigration wary base on the republican side and i think enough members of congress who are republicans would be radiolowilling to support it if president trump did that. >> if he did that on one of these days near the end of january but the question they have is will he stick with it into february, march, april, may, june july, get closer to an election in november. especially the house conservatives who don't want this to begin with. he celebrated our health care bill and then called it mean. change your mind whenever you want however you want and that's what they're afraid of. >> and he's been the antideal maker for that reason. the one deal he has struck has

been the chuck and nancy deal back over the summer on the issue of tax cuts. that's the one major piece of legislation he signed. he did that by staying out of the way. republicans were united. he just didn't mess it up. >> we showed mitch mcconnell again. i can't bring an immigration bill to the floor until i have a good sense of what the president's for and a good commitment he'll say for whatever he says he's for. he's chuck schumer saying yesterday i would love to negotiate with the president. >> negotiating with this white house is like negotiating with gel lowe. it's next to impossible. as soon as you take one step forward, the hard right forces the president three steps back. >> you can understand why he feels that way after having gone to the white house having lunch with the president feeling like he emerged what was maybe a broad outline for a deal only to get a call from chief-of-staff

john kelly saying, no, this isn't going to work for us. you would think that might have been a president could have expressed while the two of them were having lunch but that's not how it works. the white house is really talked out of both sides of their mouth particularly on the immigration issue because the president is the one who pulled the pin out of daca and said i'm going to bring an end to this but sarah huckabee sanders goes to the white house podium and insist that d.r.e.a.m.ers will have nothing to worry about. the president insists he's going to deal with this at heart. every time someone brings him a proposal on opportunities some kind of deal, he torpedos it. >> so where are we a year in? if you go back to the obama destinatio administration, he's never been a ceo. we went through that a lot in the early days of obama administration. donald trump was a ceo with zero government experience, zero political experience, zero bringing chuck, nancy, paul and

mitch, bringing everybody together. where are we now in the middle of a government shutdown? what have we learned about his management style if there is one? >> it's chaos. and that's been a consistent theme when he was a candidate and as he is president. in many ways on domestic issues he's been quite a conventional conservative republican in part because he's let other people take the lead. the government apparatus and conservatives who are now in charge on the hill have a lot of sway on those kinds of things but he often gets in the way of it either because he dwerts attention from serious business or on the case of what we've seen recently, he seems to go one way and then the people around him want him to go another way. when you hear senator mcconnell talk about the uncertainty about the president, it is a fear in many ways that the president would, in fact, cut a deal with the democrats that the republicans would be unhappy about and they look to chief-of-staff john kelly as the person who's going to hold the

president to a much tougher line on these negotiations. >> you mentioned john kelly. the president was having a public fight with his chief-of-staff because we're told he was furious after the chief-of-staff went on fox news and said, the president's flexible. >> there's been an evolutionary process that this president has gone through as a campaign and i pointed out to all the members that were in the room that they all say things during the course of campaigns that may or may not be fully informed. he's a very definitely changed his attitudes toward the daca issue and even the wall. >> everything he says there's absolutely true. every new president has to leave some of the last campaign behind. they say things when they're running for president and when you get the job you learn more. the president has shifted. he was going to deport the d.r.e.a.m.ers and now he says he wants a deal. >> i would think that, you know, what is so true about this also is that he hasn't been specific about any of these things. during the campaign, the height

of the wall was changing all the time. we'll add enough ten feet to it and when you talk to lawmakers who have been in these discussions with him, he's not specific about what he wants. he just says over and over again i want a deal. and so in some ways i think that that does give some of them optimism that there's a way to work with this president if they could get there eventually but it's incredibly frustrating in the process and it makes it so difficult for republicans who are trying to hold on to all of these seats, maintain control of the house to actually drive an agenda and tell voters what their for. >> well, we'll sfee the president speaks today. day two government shutdown. monday the workweek starts tomorrow. see if he'll call the leaders down to the hill. the women's march shares an anniversary with the trump inauguration. do you want the same tools and seamless experience across web and tablet? do you want $4.95 commissions for stocks,

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>> this is what democracy looks like. [ screams ] ♪ the womens march take two delivered a big midterm election year message. marchers hit the streets from los angeles to chicago to right here in the nation's capital. it's yet another warning signs for congressional republicans, more early evidence of midterm route could be -- could be in the offing. >> i think people are afraid and even sort of numb now with all the things going on in washington. we can make a statement -- we're going to be watching and participating. we're not going to be quiet any more. >> interesting, the collision of these events the anniversary of the trump inaugural and what we

saw yesterday was quite remarkable. now we're in the middle of a government shutdown as we try to predict in late january what's going to happen in november, all the signs point to the president's party traditionally gets whacked any way and if you look at the numbers, signs like that to the democrats say, we can take back the house and make the senate. >> the big question is the magnitude here. i don't think that republicans, while they may be loathed to admit it republican are holding on great hopes of keeping control of the house. i think that they do feel more optimistic about the possibility of keeping control of the senate. we're still talking about potentially, you know, a 51 vote margin which we're seeing right now is not necessarily the position you want to be in if you actually want to try to get things done in washington. but one of the big questions is how long are peoples' attention spans at this point. is anyone going to be blamed for the government shutdown? will trump voters show up and support republicans even when

he's not on the balance dlochlt there are a lot of unknowns and people are shaken from the last presidential when so many people got it wrong. >> we saw at the 2016 elections, republicans were overwhelming blamed in the fall of 2013 for the government shutdown. their poll numbers went down and people forgot in a few months and they cleaned up in the 2014 elections. >> that's what democrats are betting on. you saw a few of these democratic senators vote with the republicans on the resolution. most of them stuck. and chum schumer is making a bet that what you see in those march signs in alabama, virginia and new jersey will carry over to november no matter what but that's risky. >> you feel it out there. in our poll today it shows that democratic enthusiasm and when you go out in these districts, we've got a bunch of competitive house races in california, there are so many people that are

getting involved, there's so many candidates running in each of these races it's almost difficult to keep track of them and they really feel just empowered and ready to try to put some kind of check on the trump presidency and that's very compelling argument that they can make, you know, among those base voters in terms of turning out people. >> let's look at the numbers you just mentioned. we're releasing this hour. if the election were today and you were voting for congress, would you vote for democratic or republicans. these are encouraging. we have democrats 49% would vote democratic. >> 44% would vote republicans. that's a closer margin than in our last poll. that's exactly where it was roughly 2006 when the democrats had a five point advantage then and they took back the house in the 2006 midterm elections here. among those voters who say they're most enthusiastic about voting in november, the democrats have a much bigger

edge. 56% to 41% the chuck schumer decided we're sticking with our base here because base intensity and base enthusiasm we have an advantage right now. >> the democrats want to make this midterm election all about president trump and that's traditionally what midterm elections are about. you have this unusual situation where there is great optimism about the economy. there's a new poll out today. we find that there's a better feeling about the economy than there's been in 17 years, some good reasons for that. at the same time the president of the united states has the lowest approval ratings of any president at this point in his term as far back as you can go in polling. i want to go back to those images that you showed. in so many ways women are powering this resistance. if you look our recent polls, the president's approval rating

36%. among women it's 29% and 59% of women strongly disapprove of the job he's doing. that's the bet the democrats are making that that kind of anger at the president will be more important than anything that's happening right now in washington. >> you see it in the candidate recruitment and you see it again those pictures you watch. people getting active. people want to go out especially in the cold cities and march. so we'll watch that throughout the year. another thing that's frustrating to the president is the russia investigation comes with us. steve bannon angered hill republicans as well as democrats this past week. he wouldn't answer questions. they'll bring him back. i want you to listen here. i get the reason you do this but this is ty cobb the president's attorney. we know they're negotiating to of the president sit down with bob mueller. the president said maybe i won't have to do that. listen to the eagerness to talk and the timeline. >> the president's very eager to

sit down and explain whatever is responsively to the questions -- >> very eager. >> very eager. >> when do you believe this investigation will reach its conclusion? >> there's no reason for it not to conclude soon. >> what is soon. >> soon to me would be within the next four to six weeks. >> is there anyone at the table that thinks the president is very eager to sit down with bob mueller? >> no. he's been back and forth on this. he said maybe we'll see. i think it depends on how he's feeling in the moment and how angry he is that this whole investigation is clouding his presidency and casting shadow over anything. >> i could actually see this president saying that he is eager and at moments being eager and saying, you know, let me just sit down with mueller and let me explain that there was no collusion. i'm sure that there are moments when trump has felt like this

and i'm sure that he immediately hears back from his lawyer and other people around him, even if they are publicly saying, oh, my god, no, we are absolutely not just going to go in and voluntarily meet with this guy and answer his questions because there are potential down sides to it. >> he's trying to tell the president this will be over soon. four to six weeks, i don't think so. report card on year one. promises kept and promises broken and the lessons for year two. i let go of all those feelings. because i am cured with harvoni. harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. it's been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. and is proven to cure up to 99% of patients who've have had no prior treatment with 12 weeks. certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. before starting harvoni,

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to stupid people any more. >> there's never been a deal so bad as nafta and we're going to renegotiate that one very quickly. very different first year of the trump presidency but not everything about president trump is different, like every president he found out in year one that many campaign promises are hard or impossible to keep and like every president, he also decided there were some he really didn't want to keep. let's take a look at some of the scorecard. the president's america first agenda including getting out of the paris climate accord. he promised to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem, that's in progress. he said he would build the border wall. tbd on that one. maybe some funding in immigration deal for the wall. the president also said he would fix trade deals. he did withdraw from the transpacific partnership. renegotiating nafta? those negotiations continue. they've been quite tense. he promised on day one to label

chinas a currency manipulator. he backed away from that one. rip up the iran nuclear deal? no, not yet. repeal and replace obamacare? incomplete. conservative judges, a promise very much kept to the conservative base there including the supreme court justice and the less government regulation, kept. the president doesn't think he gets enough credit especially on the road when it comes to the economy. >> anybody unhappy with the 401(k)? i don't think so, right? well, we can keep it like this. we're going to win a lot of elections that i can tell you. it's something. it's something. [ applause ] >> it's the economy, stupid. did you ever hear that one? it is the economy. it is indeed. donald trump quoting james car vel. to that point you touched on this a moment ago.

this is what frustrates republicans and the his political team in the sense that democrats would make the case the recovery started under president obama but the stock market is booming and setting records. the unemployment rate is at a 17 year low. there's a lot of companies announcing or coming back. the economic news is very good and normally that's the tie that lifts a president but his personal toxicity is preventing him from getting the credit he thinks he deserves. >> yes and to the issue of who gets the credit for that in our poll just out, more people give obama credit for the current state of the economy than give president trump which i'm sure drives the white house mad. that's the nature of the first year of a presidency. obviously there is a hangover effect of the previous policies and if things were going reasonably well at the end of the obama administration they're continuing to go and the stock market has had an amazing year during president trump's first year.

the question is, does all of the other stuff that he does get in the way of the economy and everything we've seen so far is that the answer to that is yes. >> i just want to show more from our poll. you start from the inauguration. now we're one year later. even on things where the president can claim success, his standing is down. a huge drop in the confidence of the american people that he would keep that promise. creating jobs, down seven points. renegotiate nafta, down 11. defeat isis is up. he gets credit for that. build the border wall down, reduce corruption, down. >> there's very little confidence in his ability to get anything done at this point and i just am so struck by that it's just amazing to imagine what his numbers would be if he didn't have his economic numbers lifting his status and i think that what's going to be so interesting to watch this year, one of the things i'm most

excited talking to voters about, you are starting to see that uneasiness about the economy dispate. even in 2016 when we went out to the swing states and talked to voters. there was this fear that things were going to turn down again. you don't feel that as much any more and i'm so interested to see how the russia investigation effects things because so far out in these districts when you talk to people about russia and that's all we talk about at cnn, they say they don't care. it doesn't have any effect on their lives so what is that turning point at which that really becomes an election issue, does it cast a cloud over trump? does it really effect these house races? i don't think we're seeing that quite yet and it's interesting to watch. >> that's jarring. presidential approving is so closely correlated to how will well the economy is doing now. it's good. it's improving. the stock market is booming. the dow hit 26,000 for the first time ever. nearly full employment. despite that the president's approval rating is 36% which means it probably isn't going a

whole lot higher if the president cannot make lemonade out of these lemmens. that's bad news for his party. >> you mentioned talking to voters. we have a number of our correspondents go out including billware who went to iowa. one of the battleground within the battleground which the great state of iowa. colorful group of men assembled by bill ware having a debate about who. >> trump has pulled the wool over their eyes and his base has not recognized it yet. >> trump wasn't my first choice however he's doing a hell of a good job and he's playing three level chess versus everybody else playing checkers. >> no offense. that guy's watching way too much cable television. trump playing three dimensional

chess. >> there are people who think that the president is actually done a very good job. that he hasn't necessarily done it in the way they would like him to. they like the economic numbers and rolling back regulations, they look at the tax plan that was passed and they do see his first year in office as successful. the problem is it's just not enough people and you can understand why it is so frustrating for this president because historically, i don't think voters would have given barack obama the previous president the credit for an economy that's booming under a current president. it doesn't happen all that often. it's a huge frustration for trump. he fuels about it. >> can the president have a productive legislative success? >> very difficult to do it and this moment poisons things even more. so much ill will that you're feeling right now coming out of this i don't think anybody's going to be in the mood to do

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one last time around the "inside politics" table. ask our great reporters to share something out of their notebooks. sarah murray. >> plenty of people look at the comments steve bannon made in fire and fury and said they're stupid. you shouldn't have said this. it landed you in front of congressional investigators. it has sealed your fate in having to meet with mueller but i've spoken to republicans who are taking a more charitable view of what bannon said. this is a smart guy. this is the president's former chief cityist. he's looking down the line and he sees that the trump white house is going down and basically wants to be on the right side of history. we'll see how well that pans out for steve bannon. >> washing his hands,

motivation. all right. dan? as we all know the republicans are facing a very tough year heading into the midterm elections. the republicans that i've been talking to believe that there's an opportunity and they're going to spend millions of dollars trying to do this, making a big bet on convincing people that the tax bill is good for them. every poll we've seen so far, most people think it's tilted toward the wealthy. it's improved a little bit in some of the recent polls but there's still a long way to go. they feel there's a story to tell and they're going to try to do it. if they fail they know they'll be in big trouble in november. >> watch that district by district. >> i want to provide some context on the issue that shutdown the government. the d.r.e.a.m. act has been around since 2001, introduced by dick durbin. it's gotten a number of votes in congress every step of the way. it's been supported by a majority of democrats and opposed by a majority of congressional republicans. that includes speaker of the house paul ryan, the republican

leader of the senate mitch mcconnell and their leadership teams right thousand. they will not touch this issue unless president trump supports something specific and gives them political cover for what he is going to be -- he is critical to getting this government reopened again if democrats are going to be able to say they have some sort of end gain on daca which is why they're dug in. >> don't hold your breath. >> john, keep your eyes peeled for out west in utah this week. we are -- sources tell me that an announcement from mitt romney could come as soon as toward the end of the week and his next big task ahead of him is not only building a lean and very utah essential trick campaign but also to gather all the signatures he needs to get on the ballot and people around him are saying that he is probably going to collect maybe as many as double the number he needs to show he's got the grassroot support out there and you'll see a lot of campaign staffers and former campaign staffers jumping on the plane to help him.

>> let's watch the president's twitter account on that one. i'll close with this. noticeably missing from the shutdown debate is john mccain from arizona. he did issue a statement saying both political parties share a responsibility. he did so from arizona. he is home resting and getting treatment for brain cancer. the words of the senator's friends are very telling. three weeks ago, senator lindsey graham said he would be back. this week he told cnn he hopes his friend will be back soon, sometimes soon. soon does not appear to mean this month. a source in touch with mccain tells cnn he will not plan to be here. he is not planning to be here for president trump state of the union dress on tuesday. that's it for us. senator bernie sanders joins state of the union with jake tapper. have a good sunday. jimmy's gotten used to his whole room smelling like sweaty odors.

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