ann coulter has never run for office. she doesn't know anything about how you put a majority together. she's off here in some fantasyland where she gets to be noisy, which helps her sell books. >> oh, helps her sell books. a pity. ouch. good news for everyone else is coulter versus gingrich its fight to watch. how do you break newt gingrich's nose? answer kick donald trump in the ass. poor newt. at least rudy got a job and the emperor's new clothes had to be edited for spaus. lost was the scene where they said, sir, you look splendid. don't you just hate to see people you love fighting like this? finding dental and vision insurance plans can be confusing. confusing like why am i sitting here in a hospital gown waiting to get my eyes checked? ready? absolutely not. see, having the wrong coverage can mean you get the wrong care, or you're paying more than you have to. that's why i love healthmarkets, your insurance marketplace. they make sure you have the right coverage, health insurance, medicare and, yes, dental and visio

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then the next day after columns like this from ann coulter, trump blew up that deal. now while the republican party trips over itself to condemn congressman steve king, trump has out sourced his presidency to anti-immigrant ann coulter that she bragged about last night. >> i've rr been advising the president on twitter, columns and conversations you're not allowed to know about. keep it foksed on immigration. as long as people are talking about immigration, you are winning. but whatever happens, just build the wall. >> why is he digging his heels? >> because -- >> why now? >> because he's dead in the water if he doesn't build that wall. dead, dead, dead. >> she had this to say about those most impacted. >> it's very silly for democrats to hold up funding government while they're leaping about federal employees with much better been if thes, retirement plans and vacation and sick leave than anyone watching this program has. >> the likes of coulter dismiss and den grade, the thousands across networks are telling a different story. >> there's days i'm like i have to go i

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to appear in the republican party trump's base is still very much a fan of the president but ann coulter was one of the biggest cheerleaders of the president from early early on in the campaign season back in two thousand and fifteen two thousand and sixteen and it was actually another one of her tweets that was sort of the impetus her and several other similar conservative commentators it was the impetus for the president to not sign the package that was put in front of him back in december because it did not include this five point seven billion dollars for border wall with mexico and that missing key piece was something that the president has said he now needs and is possibly going to shut the government down again in three weeks because of this but we are basically back to exactly the same place where we were it began december something started again because of one of and coulter's tweets ok my waiter in washington thanks so much for that. time for tennis now and japan's now me osaka has won the australian open osaka beat czech republic's petra kita to secure her second grand slam ti

>> this experience you saw him respond to limbaugh and coulter. >> no question anne coulter. >> it ishe base. in a lot of ways they thought they were leading the base but couldn't control the fire they lit. >> it's right out of the fountain head. a rabl rouser and he was led by the rabbal. >> those are my people. >> i'm glad we have a memory of even the great books. even liberals love it. thank you. >>> kcoming up new reporting tht mueller is interested in vladimir putin meetings. they have to rely on russian accounts. do you believe it? we got to go to third parties. let's talk to putin's people. they might tell us. this is "hardball" where the action is. this is "hardball" where the action is. ♪ [friend] i've never seen that before. ♪ ♪ i have... ♪ but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient i have... originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. tailored recommendations, tax-efficient investing strategies, and a dedicated advisor to help you grow and protect your wealth.

trump's proposal before he even made his statement on television, and on the right, you have ann coulter, you have james carafano at the heritage foundation calling it an amnesty. the solution will be somewhere in the middle there. and we're beginning to see the outlines of that, really, for the first time since the government shutdown almost a month ago. host: this is from the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell. he tweeted the following, "i commend the president for his leadership in proposing this bold solution to reopen the government, secure the border, and take bipartisan steps toward addressing current immigration issues." he then followed up with his full statement. let me begin on that point with regard to the senate, because the president making reference to what that chamber will be doing this week. what can we expect? guest: so, the senate will take a vote this week. and again, this is another kind of breaking of the logjam. mitch mcconnell had been very much on the sidelines until now. so now he's willing to put some legislation on the floor, as early as tuesday, but mo

is it donald trump or is it ann coulter et al? if it's donald trump then the big losers in this wall controversy, contratemps are the right wing media it will turn out they don't control the audience donald trump does. he may wake up one morning and discover his own power who has the power over that audience >> the "new york times" had a story this morning that said donald trump the wounded there is now growing ferment on the right that the base is soft and he'll be a primary challenger. >> we'll come back that's the big question. natas natasha, gabe, jennifer, see you in a little bit. he was convicted of a crime during iran contra but now donald trump tapped him for a post in south america because -- of course. i'm ray and i quit smoking with chantix. smoking. it dictates your day. i didn't like something having control over me. i wanted to stop. the thing is i didn't know how. chantix, along with support, helps you quit smoking. chantix reduced my urge to smoke to the point that i could quit. when you try to quit smoking, with o

so i think he might have washed his hands of ann coulter, it sounds like. he seemed to be pretty dismi dismissive of her. >> peter nicholas, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >>> hours ago roger stone speaks to the media. hear what he said about cooperating with robert mueller. >>> and jared kushner thought the russia thing ended according to. >> chris: -- chris christie. economists say the tax cuts inspired more hiring, but now they indicate it didn't help at all. i'm alex trebek here to tell you about the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85 and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three p's. what are the three p's? the three p's of life insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and price. a price you can afford, a price that can't increase, and a price that fits your budget. i'm 65 and take medications. what's my price? you can get coverage for $9.95 a month. i just turned 80. what's my price? $9.95 a month for you, too. if you're age 50 to 85, call now about the number one most popular whole life insurance

ann coulter continued on bill maher. trump criticized two fox news anchors by name on twitter. never thought i'd say this but i think john roberts and gillian

this president is working for ann coulter.l, ann coulter, rush limbaugh, those megavoices on the right speak to his base, and he's always worried about the base. when ann coulter yells and screams, he pays attention. that's how we got into this mess, remember. >> this is hard-core. this is about race, just a hunch. because the hard-core carries me about this wall than anything else and that's why he can't give up on it. >> how is he being puppeted around by coulter? she's anger when what he proposed on saturday. she thinks being jep is terrible >> you think he's going to go in this direction? >> what he offered is what he offered. she's reacting to what he offered. she's saying terrible jeb bush, the worst insult you could possibly give. >> trump follows a pattern. there was a deal a month ago. they had a deal. and then went coulter and limbaugh started yelling and screaming, that's what he -- >> the guy doesn't know anything about daca. but he knows about that wall. that's what they want. they want the wall. that's the symbol

i would make the argument the president has more sway over sean hannity and ann coulter than vice versa. you know i like lindsey graham. he's a good friend of mine from south carolina. he's not as good of a politician as donald trump or else he'd be president. they both ran. one of them won, one of them lost. the president is interested in resolving this issue. >> here's one thing that i didn't hear throughout our entire interview. what is it -- >> because you didn't ask. >> what is the president offering the democrats? what's the offer on their side? right now it's only clear what the president wants. >> let me tell you, because it came up the other day in the private meeting with the big eight as they call them, leaders from the house, republicans and democrats. he was willing to agree and he mentioned this at the rose garden press conference, to take a concrete wall off the table. that is -- if that is not evidence of our willingness to solve the problem, okay, because again what is driving this is the president's desire to change the conditions at the border. and if he has to give u

he honestly believes rush limbaugh, ann coulter and tucker carlson are more powerful than he is. the base loves him. if he told them there's already a wall. just tell them there's a wall. >> i could not agree more. i think if he does not get the wall built, it's a con they have sold him. >>> nex that collusion rewrites when the president's lawyer that he can't rule out potential collusion. we'll talk about that in two minutes. the latest innovation from xfinity isn't just a store. it's a save more with a new kind of wireless network store. it's a look what your wifi can do now store. a get your questions answered by awesome experts store. it's a now there's one store that connects your life like never before store. the xfinity store is here. and it's simple, easy, awesome. >>> i never said there was no collusion between the campaign or people in the campaign. >> yes, you have. >> no, i did not. i said the president of the united states. there's not a single bit of evidence that president conspired with the russians to hack the dnc. >> okay. there's been a lot of reaction to rudy

how much votes will he get that ann coulter won't scare off? >> mitch mcconnell might be doing this, i will bring it up, appease you and if it fails he, schumer and the speaker sit in a room, the adults -- >> toss passive aggressive. >> i've wondered where mitch mcconnell's been -- >> hiding. >> he's facing re-election in 2020. maybe he's worried about his right flank. he's also dealing with a number of senators in his own party who will face a tough re-election as well. he's jammed up. i don't think that trump necessarily wanted to actually even work with mcconnell on this. i think he tried to do this with pelosi and schumer and he's failed there. so now he's going to mitch and i think mitch will bring this up. it will fail. the votes are in the senate, not the house and we're back to where we are today. it's a wasted stage vote. >> wasted is a good place to stop. i can see your face, ron klain. go ahead, last word. >> last word. the first law of holes is when you're in a hole, stop digging. what the first part of this offer that was so bad fo

, the ann coulters of the world. she doesn't think the president's trip to the border is a good idea. and she tweeted today that trump's trip to the border is beyond moronic. does he need to meet with a cancer patient before deciding to fund cancer research? so if trump changed his tune on the shutdown because of ann coulter and other right-wing pundits, will that happen? will that happen to his border trip, do you think? >> first let me go back abou this speech tomorrow night in the oval office. the first time the president has made a primetime speech in the oval office. that's big. but -- and i told you about a wall a few minutes ago. this wall compared to the israeli wall. well, i was told by my republican source, good republican sources inside this group, this trump administration group. they're saying the president is getting ann coulter's support by talking about the israeli wall. so it's -- i give you something, you give me something. so she's pacified, i believe -- yes. she's pacified, i believe, if he does t

right wing pundit ann coulter tweeted, "trump proposes amnesty. we voted for trump and got jeb."mpared him to jeb bush, his nemesis from the primaries. trump prides himself on being a master negotiator. here is actual footage of jeb bush's most successful negotiation. >> please clap. [ laughter and applause ] >> seth: but, of course, you guys, the comparison is unfair. it's ridiculous. i mean, it's not like trump has ever asked a crowd to give him a standing ovation. [ cheers and applause ] >> get up. >> seth: oh, my god. [ laughter ] it's happening! he's turning into jeb. soon he's going to start wearing glasses and getting trapped in his own hoodie. [ laughter ] even trump's speeches are low-energy now. when he runs for re-election in 2020, the primary debates are just going to be a split screen of him making faces at himself. >> that is our plan. [ laughter ] border security. daca. tps. and many other things. [ laughter ] >> seth: now, we are living in a very surreal time where people like ann coulter have tremendous sway over the president. in december, trump was going to giv

he allowed himself to hold hostage by coulter.ifferent than what he said 24 hours ago. there is no question he does not feel like he can lose that base of support because he knows if he loses anne coulter and shanahanty, thatsean hannity. >> i am married to someone who's from ukraine, she's ukrainian, the idea that the president's lawyer would go on national television and say that being from ukraine make you possible and complicit in organized crime. that's the most ridiculous thing i have heard. >> especially donald trump hired manafort. >> and own ties to russian's organized crime. >> kurt and e.j. and tara, thank you. there is still something zanier than rudy giuliani is coming up. we'll speak to congresswoman elean eleanor. a veteran of where the country stands on martin luther king's day. like a biotech firm that engineers a patient's own cells to fight cancer. this is strategic investing. because your investments deserve the full story. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. with my bladder leakage, the products i've tried

anne coulter is one who pressured the president to shut down the government in the first place. the president is the biggest wimp to serve as president of the united states. she went on the bill marr show that leans left. if you want to get trump, target him about lying about the wall. in 18 months, he has not delivered and that is where he is weak and his weak spot. interesting to hear people like coulter disappointed the president didn't get the border wall funding. another example, here is a couple of clips from fox news, more criticism of the president coming from the right. >> president of the united states he has whipped. >> we should admit it. trump did lose the shutdown fight over the wall. >> has is the message. lou dobbs is one of the single biggest cheerleaders for the president that exists anywhere on tv or anywhere in the united states. to hear someone like lou dobbs say that he has been whipped, that trump has been rolled by nancy pelosi, it is clearly not a good weekend for the president. of course, we will see what happens in 15 days. now, what? sorry. february 1

fold we've grown apart and it's that. >> very sorry to and coulter but i do think that the presidentill cave because i don't think democrats will budge they are coming with the idea of we want border security and do it in a different way so ultimately it seems like there being reasonable but trump was a physical wall which does not work and is expensive and most people who overstay visas and that's how we have illegal immigrant. people running over the border is not even really the main issue. i think he'll say fine and blame democrats. kennedy: he kind of did before. we'll get the money from somewhere else and take from the defense department and will get the money and that is when some conservative voices became apoplectic. >> and it's a sad day and will be a sad day for ann coulter and i look forward to her tweet on the day be one nothing if not entertaining. mitt romney will not spirit until tomorrow but the former republican president nominee barged into washington today ripping president trumps character with a skating op-ed. romney was asked why he is slamming the president wh

take a look at what ann coulter just tweeted the other day. she tweeted trump voted for amnesty.'s the president's movement. >> the question is, can democrats -- democrats are afraid of making a deal with president trump because of secretary coulter making steps like that. >> one of the biggest frustrations i have and i'm going to say it over and over again, not being able to get immigration reform through was part of the republican party. we had a really hard time getting part of the -- a fraction of the republican party moving in. and helping us out. sometimes they torpedo their own. when you're looking at ann coulter, it makes it difficult for the president to even move towards more immigration reform. >> my executive producer says i need to point out ann coulter is not actually the secretary of state. it was a joke because she has a lot of power with the president. go ahead. >> i continue to be frustrated the negotiations are being made with the president. it's like the -- it's like congress has abdicated all of their powers, given it all away. i want to see mitch mcconnell a

coulter. you have people like sean hannity still defending the president, blaming the democrats for the shutdown. wall street journal poll this morning, even though his approval rating is holding steady, most americans are blaming president trump for the shutdown. in large part because he took credit for the shutdown beforehand. >> maybe hannity will be the only guy left supporting president trump. >> his reality distortion field, i love this concept, only goes as far as he has a base willing to mimic it. it relies on that echo chamber. this week that echo chamber saw serious erosion, we're losing lou dobbs, ann coulter until he's left truly with just the sycophants, no principle that makes them support him, just that they're there to support him. that erosion happens from the caving and also the way his cabinet talked about it and how out of touch he showed his cabinet and himself to be. we spent friday talking about whether people could get loans to get them through the shutdown and whether

it both can be true and coulter and sean hannity are are really responsible for getting the president to take the track of of rejecting a unanimously passed appropriations bill that would have funded the government and it created this and they said you can't do that you will lose your base that's how this shutdown started now as the president is compromising and giving in and restarting the government and coulter has said that he has now surpassed george h.w. bush as the greatest wimp among presidents and right now i think the president is very sensitive to the cultures in hannity's but he also sees his popularity with his base being dented and i think that is the bottom line that before his base was pleased with him but when this pain is come about and people begin to feel their real lives their lives being impacted and their friends and family being impacted in serious ways i think that's had the greater impact at this moment but you should always never never underestimate the ability of you know one of these right wing talk show host to be able to get the president to change change

he goes to his base, and i joked, but kind of not joking about president coulter, right?, limbaugh, and hannity, and they said you better build this wall, or else. and you saw even yesterday, to distract attention from the latest buzzfeed report, what did he say? he went back to the classic. found at the border, middle eastern suspects, muslims. as a muslim, no muslim leaves their prayer rugs behind. we might be radical. we're not wasteful. but it just shows you, look, he will double down. he doubled down on the oval office address, made up stats about violent crime and manufactured the border crisis. why does he relent? i think it will be one or two more missed paychecks and more of a reduction and ann coulter or limbaugh saying enough is enough. that's my take. >> here is what i think, and i fwrae agr agree with you progressives and democrats sort of taking over what immigration policy is, and what we need to do in order to fix it in this country, and i agree with you, it has been, we've been arguing it, based on a conservative logic of they're coming to take our job, t

>> ann coulter. >> president coulter and president limbaugh says, oh, no, no, no. reneged on the deal. so this isn't a both sides. the president is the one who is not negotiating here. >> right. i mean it's not -- even today the description of the meeting, it was kind of crazy-making. you know, saying basically -- his idea of negotiating is "give me what i want and, you know, everything will be fine." that's not a negotiation. they're not going to agree to the wall. he had it right the first time when he said, i'm not going to get the wall and i don't want to shut the government down. then he had the backlash from ann coulter and rush limbaugh. i think he made a real mistake there. i think actually he blinked. i think if he had gone ahead and done what i wanted to do -- >> let me put this up. i don't think that ann coulter and rush limbaugh has more control than donald trump does. >> trump tweeted after the meeting was, quote, a total waste of time. he believes he has the upper hand. >> oh, i don't think so. i think he realizes he's in trouble and he's trying every

he's after ann coulter, saying she's being hostile. come on, this is hostile. this is the president of the united states. >> when you're going to war with ann coulter, you're not having a good time in politics. he thinks that this is a winning argument. that the wall is a winning argument. fundamentally, he believes it's a win. it's loss. hires the empirical evidence. we just had a midterm election. he tried to litigate the wall in those midterm districts. he lost republican members of congress. he litigated the wall, made a referendum. they flipped to democrats. this is not a winning argument for donald trump. he just hasn't figured it out yet. >> michael, read this guy because i think he looks weaker. i compared him to sonny liston, once, the guy who couldn't be beaten until he couldn't win. went from can't lose to can't win. >> i think that's exactly right. he's in this space, he's buffeted by guys like mulvaney inhouse telling him, all right, let's do this, stick to it. they go out and continue to beat that drum. what i take away from this is, again, the id

this from ann coulter, the conservative congressmen tater. good news for george herbert walker bush. today, he is no longer the biggest wimp to ever serve as president of the united states. >> one word from our guest. ouch. natasha joins us. thanks for being with us. he's getting it from ann coulter, he lost to nancy pelosi on the left. was this one of the worst days for president trump? >> it was a terrible day. i mean, he tried to frame it as positively as he could saying they were going to be negotiating. he didn't really ever admit any sort of defeat. he tried to spend the last, you know, 75% of his speech distracting people about what just happened in talking about the need for the wall and all the different immigration issues that the country was facing, issues with women and children, people coming in with diseases. ultimately, he caved. this is going to go down as the most pointless shutdown in u.s. history. it took 35 days. it probably cost the u.s. economy well over the $6 billion he wanted for the wall. it caused all kind of duress

the president may listen to anne coulter rather than nancy pelosi.at scene tuesday night, if he comes into the newly reopened government and we get to watch nancy pelosi behind him the whole time. >> there is such a sense of exhaustion. you think he needs a week to gather his thoughts. >> a lot to get through. >> you don't want to do it yet. >> i know he wants to give the state of the union. if we're talking about whether or not he's listening to anne coulter or nancy pelosi, like everything is out of whack. anne could you teller is a pundit. she's not a part of the official government. she is not elected. so the president listening to people who are spouting their opinions, sure, i think my opinion is great and i hope people listen sometimes. but i'm not an elected member of government. i think when are you accountable to constituents, that is a different thing than when you have people who watch your show and you have ratings. >> okay. my sense is, the democrats are taught in the house are talking about border security. you just heard president cla

ann coulter tweeted she saw it as the president offering amnesty.h former democratic congressman louis gutierrez. also, cnn political commentator mark short. thank you both for being here. congressman, i want to start with you and one more comment from the vice president today that i want your take on. it's his assurance that the president's offer does not equate to amnesty. listen. >> it's not amnesty. we're asking for $5.7 billion for funding on a wall. >> i'm talking about the dreamers. >> the president has said that we will support temporary relief for three years for daca recipients and those who are in temporary protected status. this is not amnesty. there's no pathway to citizenship. there's no, you know, permanent status here at all, which is what amnesty contemplates. >> it's common knowledge that this white house is strongly influenced by certain high-visibility members on the far right. they're obviously not singing the same song on this offer to restart the government. what does this mean when the preside president's biggest cheerleaders

he honestly believes rush limbaugh, ann coulter and tucker carlson are more powerful than he is. the base loves him. if he told them there's already a wall. just tell them there's a wall. >> i could not agree more. i think if he does not get the wall built, it's a con they have sold him. >>> nex that collusion rewrites when the president's lawyer that he can't rule out potential collusion. we'll talk about that in two minutes. n. we'll talk about that in two minutes. world which is doing it's best to make you everybody else... ♪ ♪ means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight and never stop. does this sound dismal? it isn't. ♪ ♪ it's the most wonderful life on earth. ♪ ♪ after bill's back needed a vacation from his vacation. so he stepped on the dr. scholl's kiosk. it recommends our best custom fit orthotic to relieve foot, knee, or lower back pain so you can move more. dr. scholl's. born to move. fresh-baked, and hand-crafted, with 100% clean ingredients. just a few good reasons to give into your cravings. now delivering. panera. food as it should be. hey, b

you have ann coulter, the conservative immigration fire brand who called president trump in her words, the biggest wimp ever. to pull back the curtain a little bit on this, when you talk to people close to the president, they make the case that there are two issues that sort of form president trump's core appeal to his base of supporters, the two issues from which he derives his real core political power. one has to do with getting more conservatives on the supreme court. he's made good on that. the other is border security. given this perceived weakness now, that is why you see the president doing damage control tweeting a number of times today including a tweet just hours ago where he says, this was in no way a concession. it was taken care of millions of people who were getting badly hurt by the shutdown. the president is now trying to shift the public narrative but there is no denying that one he capitulated to nancy pelosi and that all he has left to show for it are flagging poll numbers and all of the blame for this 35 day shutdown that did nothing but inflict lots of damage dir

people are going to attack him for these theatrics tonight that he called a speech. >> ann coulter was all over twitter just a few minutes ago saying now there's amnesty? now you have people that typically support trump, a trump surrogate like her who say you're offering amnesty, that was never part of the deal. but the hypocrisy is really what i think is the loudest thing that you see. president trump just did an immigration and naturalization ceremony in the white house an hour before this address that he did talking about what a great country we are. my father came here as an immigrant. the idea that there's any legal recourse that's being provided to people that are either here on their tps status, daca, or asylum, he's now decided he wants to rewrite the asylum laws. asylum is not forcing people from central america that have to stay there to apply for asylum. asylum by definition under our laws is you're here and asking the united states to giving you a place to go to protect you from persecution >> which is legal. >> there's nothing legal going on. >> can i say something? >> the

is he someone who gets so easily influenced by, say, the twitter feed of someone like ann coulter thatets poisoned by that and it turns his mind, he doesn't want that kind of bad pr among his base? >> that's right. the president does change his mind often and he is influenced by some of these individuals on conservative media. i do think there are probably some regrets in the white house about not taking advantage of a couple big opportunities they had in the last congress to advance immigration reform. but here's the bottom line and i agree with susan, up until yesterday the president fully owned this shoutdoutdown becaus asked for it. he said in front of the country and speaker pelosi and leader schumer that he would be the one to shut down the government. however, yesterday he did take a step in the right direction and i think democrats were wrong to summarily reject the president's proposal. what they should do, they don't have to accept what the president is proposing. what they should do is make a counter offer. they claim a lot of us worked in the last congress to protect dreame

ann coulter said we voted for trump and we got jeb. much earlier in this process to reverse course and say he would not sign that spending deal that would have funded the government. it would have avoided all of this. so that is sort of like the political underlying debate here as we try to get through this five week shut down here. >> so from people like ann coulter, what are we hearing from democraticic lawmakers? >> i think they view it as a sucker punch. it is a proposal he knew would be rejected because it had been on the table before. they saw this as something they needed to take seriously because perhaps the american people were -- or the public at large, would see this as a good faith attempt. nancy pelosi saying it was not a good faith attempt. you have the chairman of the appropriations committee committee calling it a boondoggle, and your son-in-law, that's not how it works. mitch mcconnell once the president was finished, said he would bring the senate back into session next week to vote and work through some of these prop

ann coulter, the last time he tried to switch from wall to barriers or slats, ann coulter was not having it, and he pivoted to, no, no, no, i mean the wall. here we are again where the rubber meets the road, his supporters are not willing to say if it's not a wall it's not border security. >> whatever the opinion polls are about it, this is a core campaign promise, as a literal wall or border security for which there's a lot of support, i think he needs to define what that is if he wants to garner more support. if we get to a deal on this maybe it's a broader deal outside the reopening of the government, dealing with daca, it would still fall short of the deal he had last year that his own hard line advisers forced him not to take over the issue of family migration. he had a deal. he had democrats giving a lot of money, including money for the wall and he chose to say no. >> yes, is it ironic. >> nobody is talking about closing canada's border. >> that's my favorite reference. >> thank you, panel. >>> ahead on "new day" we will discuss this with a new panel. >>> a freshman member of cong

given that he does have ann coulter criticizing his plan and other conservative media outlets. he is not giving them with a they initially wanted. sf first, don't forget supreme court is not taking up the her on court ruling which has prevented the president from ending daca. so they're protected. they have protection for an extended period. probably another year anyway. regardless of what he is offering. >> the biggest thing is, is there anything the democrats can accept in return for a wall? or is it such a toxic symbol of validation of president trump's immigration policy in specific, and more broadly, his attitude toward changes. if there's something the democrats can accept, it will be at the least, some guarantee for a very substantial population. and then that puts the ball back in the other court. as you're saying, if the president is getting attacked over a three-year extension of daugavins, is ann coulter suggesting the president ought to be rounding up and deporting daca recipients? it would be a good way to get under 35% which is where he's skating to now in his app

that even though a lot of democrats are saying this is unacceptable and dead on arrival, so is ann coulter. she's calling this very modest proposal amnesty, which it's not. >> so who does the president try to appeal to? >> it seems to me he's trying to appeal to a very small base which is even smaller than his base. he's trying to appeal to people like right wing influentials and people who, you know, influence the way his base feels about him, people like rush limbaugh and ann coulter. >> so there is no emergency to get the country up and running again. >> i don't think they feel any urgency. i think they would rather have a position. i think they would rather be having this platform. i think they like the power. i think they like the ability to bully the president of the united states. and, you know, i think they're going to continue on this. they're going to continue saying no to everything. it makes negotiating for donald trump very, very difficult. >> so, then, andre, does it show that the president is the chief negotiator here? where is the priority? is it getting government up and r

i got to ask you about ann coulter, sorry, gotta. she has already responded to trump's offer and she's not for it. she said basically what's the point of a wall if you're just going to, her words, amnesty, if you're going to legalize dreamers. is her opinion ultimately more important than anyone else's? >> that's part of why we've gotten here, i would say to my democratic fans, if ann coulter is opposed to this deal, you might want to take a second look at it? >> i don't know. i don't know. i don't think we should be taking ann coulter's advice in any -- >> but the president clearly does. >> yes, but that doesn't mean that we should, but i will say -- i will state this interesting point. over the last 80 years, this country's natural population growth has slowed considerably. the worst its been in 80 years. immigrants are going to be an important critical part of this country's prosperity going forward. why not do this and make it permanent so that these dreamers are not hanging by a thread and that at the whim of the courts? >> this

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trump telling the wall street journal coulter has become 'very hostile. maybe i didn't return her phone call or something'after a long shutdown with nothing to show for it, it's not just the members of his base that -- moderate lawmakers are too. sen. collins:"shutdowns are never good policy, ever. they are never to be used as a means to achieve any kind of goal, no matter how important that goal may seem to be. they are ineffective." (ken) president trump has accepted an invitation from house speaker nancy pelosi to give his state of the union speech on february 5th. in a letter to pelosi today-- president trump said it his great honor to accept her invitation to speak before a joint session of congress next week. the speech was initially scheduled for tomorrow-- but pelosi postponed it amid the government shutdown. the house and senate still must pass a resolution officially inviting the president to speak to congress next week. (ken) president trump's former personal lawyer michael cohen will testify before the house intelligence committee in a closed-

and this from ann coulter who says, well, some say spurred the president to begin this shutdown. she writes, good news for george herbert walker bush today. he's no longer the biggest wimp ever to serve as president of the united states. >> let's discuss with scott jennings. jennifer grahn holme. did anything positive politically come out of this for the president? >> no, no. nothing positive has happened here. and in three weeks. he's going to have to make a decision about what posture to take. my belief is, he will not shut the government down again. but he's unlikely to get any wall concessions in three weeks, because he didn't get any this time around. which really only leaves the national emergency option, which then i assume would be stuck in court for some period of time. i don't think anything politically good has come of this, the only thing you can't get more of in politics is time. we lost a month of time in this presidency at a critical period. >> we lost time and the nation lost a lot of money as well. >> reopening the government should eliminate at least the justifi

what we've seen from ann coulter is a lot of trashing of trump. saying, we voted for donald, we got jeb instead. she is calling this amnesty, saying the president by providing to provide a temporary solution for some dreamers. >> not a pathway to citizenship mind you. >> no, but they're calling it amnesty. an amnesty for wall trade would reward immigration law breakers. the president is a loser for the forgotten american workers who were central to their promises. >> simone, i know you wanted to get in on this? >> i just, look, i think that if the president really wants to negotiate, he has to pick up the phone and call speaker pelosi, he has to pick up the phone and call leader schumer and bring them back to the negotiating table. but stunts like this do not make democratic lawmakers feel good. the president is essentially coming out, using his bully pulpit of the white house, in an attempt to bully lawmakers into his deal. the president seems to have found mitch mcconnell and he's on board with this deal. >> sure, simone, but he did have a meeti

trump telling the wall street journal coulter has become 'very hostile.mething'after a long shutdown with nothing to show for it, it's not just the members of his base that are frustrated -- moderate lawmakers are too.sen. collins: "shutdowns are never good policy, ever. they are never to be used as a means to achieve any kind of goal, no matter how important that goal may seem to be. they are ineffective." (ken) now to our four zone forecast. you're looking live at the golden gate bridge. (pam) kron-4's chief meteorologist lawrence karnow joins us with a look ahead lawrence karnow: there were plenty of clouds today as high pressure continues to weaken. doppler radar is showing a few showers in northern california. more clouds will move in tonight but that will keep it from being as cold. lows will be in the 40s and 50s. on the satellite high pressure continues along the west coast but will finally give way to a few passing storms. rain chances increase during the week with a bigger storm expected on friday. still ahead at 8 -- president donald trump's fo

being pollyannish but i think that's possible i think donald trump sees that possibility and coulter for have some most vocal term supporter pushing for a border wall said in the interview wednesday that trump will cave on his demand for a wall said if he doesn't do all the next person will be a democrat was to reaction. well first of all i think. i don't think there should be a wall i don't think there will be a wall and i think everybody knows that and you know. i don't think and i think trump could get reelected if he doesn't build the wall depends on who the democrats run look his base larry his base is not going to blame donald trump if he doesn't get the wall built you know what they'll blame the democrats they'll blame nancy pelosi they'll blame mitch mcconnell they'll never turn on donald trump the truest thing donald trump ever said is that he could shoot somebody on fifth avenue his base would never go away so yeah but here's here's to me this whole debate about the wall to me is a nonstarter because donald trump promise from the beginning he was going to build the wall and

rush limbaugh, ann coulter. >> coulter hated this. >> yes. like names on a chalkboard. amnesty? >> right. ann coulter camous quickly. >> he's being pulled by both directions, trying to find a middle ground with his base. >> democrats rick being seen as intranceant if they don't come toward the president's plan a little bit. it's weighing down far more on the president, as it shonkts ul >> and at what cost, again? spending none support this wall it's going to cost us with our base. it's going to cost us with a lot of the progressive members that came in in 2018 that are looking for a more -- looking to pull nancy pelosi in particular but the party more to the left. >> admit this. the shutdown is hurting a lot of the democratic base. >> it's hurting people broadly. let's be clear about that. it's hurting people broadly. it's hurting our economy. it's hurting 800,000 or more americans, but i do think what we like to see is the fact that nancy pelosi and chuck schumer are standing firm. >> nobody wins. compromise is the lubrication of democracy. we all know that. so -- let's lubrica