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hakim jeffries stumbled through the answer because he has no good answer.elp people, make husband more safe. dean: trying to allude people reporting crimes to the police. that has been debunked by several law enforcement personnel on our show today. todd: syria, the president just moments ago, sending out this tweet about syria. it reads as follows. if anybody but donald trump did what i did in syria, which was an isis-loaded mess when i became president they would be a national hero. isis is mostly gone or slowly sending our troops back home to be with their families while at the same time finding isis remnants. the ellipse sees, we're expecting that that tweet to finish. this comes on the heels of lindsey graham's comments after a lunch yesterday. i want to get your thoughts on the tweet. what are your thoughts. rachel: he has been fighting isis since the day he was elected. one of the first things he decided to do was change rules of engagement for the military, so they can get in there and eliminate this menace. we haven't really heard much about it. de

joining us is democratic congressman hakim jeffries, a member of the judiciary committee, just electedch for joining us. let me get your reaction. what do you think of this apparent front-runner to become the next attorney general, william barr? >> well, i think it's important that the president fill the vacancy with someone who is respected on both sides of the aisle. william barr has a decent reputation as far as i can tell, has the appropriate degree of experience. he'll, of course, have to be vetted by senators who are republicans and democrats as part of the confirmation process, but we do need to move beyond the current acting attorney general who appears to be nothing but a lackie for donald trump and someone who does not do justice to the department of justice. >> barr, robert mueller, they worked closely together during the first bush administration, but barr has criticized mueller for appointing some of the prosecutors on his russia probe team with a history of making political donations to democrats. does it give you any concern about his potential treatment of the mueller i

new york congressman and democratic caucus chairman, hakim jeffries, tweeted, day seven of the republican shutdown. republicans continue to hold the american people hostage. we refuse to pay a $5 billion ransom note. they will give members at least 24 hours notice to return to washington to vote if there is an agreement. back to you, greg. >> rich, thanks very much. >>> joining us now with reaction, florida attorney general pam bondi and arizona congressman andy bigs. congressman, it wasn't just 2013 but all the way back to 2006, then senator schumer, obama, biden and clinton were all voting in favor of constructing a barrier on the mexican border. frankly, not much has changed in the interim 12 years, except the problem has gotten a lot worse. are people like schumer suffering acute amnesia or is it just petty partisan politics? they can't stand to give trump something he wants even though it is the same thing they have long wanted. >> yes. i am not sure how sincere they were in 2006. i can tell you what they are sincere about today is that they just don't like president trump. they do n

i want to say hakim jeffries on the left, jared kushner and donald trump on the right have brought togetherve never seen. you've got literally the national association of manufacturers, fox news, and sean hannity on the same page with nancy pelosi, cory booker, the aclu, cut 50, something is -- beautiful is happening, and it's not that you have to see it to believe it. you have to believe it to see it. it's happening right now. people coming together in america to help the people who have nothing. and it's amazing and i'm happy about it. >> this is something you and i can agree on. it's a great day for america. this is such an awesome issue to give, whether they're minority or white kid a second chance in life. it's awesome. >> it's something, bipartisanship we haven't seen on an issue we're not seeing progress on and we should all celebrate. thank you both very much. i want to get to breaking news. >>> just coming in right now, this is about michael flynn. a judge is ordering flynn surrender his passport. trump's former national security adviser, who has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi