let me bring in shake sherman f -- jake sherman.ant to call our viewers and listeners on sirius satellite radio, i want to call their attention to this cnn poll. it shows that democratic voters are almost evenly split over whether pelosi should be speaker. 44% say pelosi is the best choice, 46% saying they would prefer a different democrat. here's the thing, in the upper chamber chuck schumer loses a seat or two, no one's calling for chuck schumer's head. democrats pick up 35 seats and you've got a significant number of people saying nancy pelosi shouldn't be the speaker. why is that? >> that's a good question. republicans have spent hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars over the last decade or so beating up on nancy pelosi in campaigns around the country. i was on the road for almost all of october, and every single place i went nancy pelosi was a campaign issue that republicans had introduced into the race. if you talk to nancy pelosi's supporters and i'm sure mr. clyburn would agree with this, that some of the animus towar

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and he's trying to get a reduced sentence for things that have nothing to do with me. >> again, jake sherman standing by for us on the hill, garrett haake also standing by for us on the hill as well, and jake, let me come back it to you. you just said something, and it piqued my interest. you know, sometimes people will say things and you know in the back of your mind that what they're telling you may not actually be true, but you let them finish. have you gotten the sense there on the hill from lawmakers that several of the people who have been interviewed in those committees, whether it's senate intel or one of the other committees that conducted the investigation into possible collusion, do you get the sense from lawmakers that maybe they knew they weren't being honest with, that maybe they knew that the witnesses were lying to them? >> reporter: i mean, of course people speculate that they -- i want to say on this issue, republicans and democrats have pretty firm views, right? there isn't a lot of room for interpretation or a lot of room for imagination here. of course members of the hou

lisa desjardins with pbs newshour, jake sherman of politico, ericwawerner of "the ington post," and manu raju with cnn. let's start with the issues. there are many fronts for possible bipartisanship from infrastructure to trade and healthcare. enging issue cha is likely to be immigration. president trump is threatening a partial government shutdown next month ifes con doesn't agree to his terms for funding for his long-promised wall along the u.s.-mexico border. president trump: when y look at the caravan, when you look at the mess, when you look at t peopoming in, this would be a very good time to do a shutdown. robert: before we talk about bipartisanship possibilities, jake, what are the possibilities right nowor ahutdown in december over immigration? jake: i'd say pretty good. the president is facing a tough scenario. he's going to lnke a c of washington next year and he's put off this nice on the border wall for tears. if you talk to his defenders in congress, they will say qui simply, the president ran on a promise to restrict immigration and build a physical barrier on the border w

joining me, nbc news national correspondent peter alexander, politico's senior writer, jake sherman, "boston herald" white house bureau chief, kimberly atkins, the director of progressive programming for sirius xm, zerlina maxwell and republican strategist rick wilson, the author of the book "everything donald trump touches dies." peter, i want to start with you. listen, him getting into it with cnn, him getting into it with reporters, telling them to sit down, he's been doing this now for three years. it was markedly more out of control today than it has ever been admittedly, but i was struck, peter, by what he did at the very beginning of that news conference when he singled out individual republicans and said they did not win because they did not embrace him. and he said the retiring republicans, had they not retired, they would have been fine. they retired, peter, because they couldn't win in a primary against a donald trump supporting candidate. >> yeah, katy, you make an important point here. that struck me as much as anything, that the president right out of the gates mocked t

jake sherman for politico. yeah mitch alcindor for the pbs newshour. and carl hulse, chief washington correspondent for the "new york times." o when you thi the closing days of this midterm election, what does it mean for voter intensity on both sides? amy: the voter intensity has already been ramped up to a place we' never seen before. we're hearing talk about turnout in the midterm elections that could reach levels we haven't seen in 100 years. we've already had a boiling caldron. and the question is now is it going to overflow? if you're a republican sitting in one of these competitive house districts, you wan president to be closing in on the economy and how good things are lookingy especia the new jobs report that was out today. but he wants to talk about the h issu has animated his campaign and his presidency, which is immigration. and if you're in theoretically if you're aepublican in aeep red state that might help you. but i don't -- i don't think we que know yet if this push on this issue is going to do more to alienate voters or whether it's

. >> he called our good friend jake sherman in an interview he said that issue is a total winner. he believes that he can, that it is a winner for him both in terms of the border wall, immigration, and if there's a shut that he believes he can win. that seems to indicate to a lot of us that is sort of wants one. >> we met with him in the oval a couple days ago. he thinks the issue or security is a winner. i don't know that, i don't know what he said to jake but i don't think this is a shut up as a winner. i think he sees border security of the winter. i see as right thing to do because it is necessary. we don't want to a shut down. i have no interest in doing that. that makes no sense. i would like to see progress on port security which either way back in what was it, 2006, we passed secure fence act and chuck schumer and hillary clinton and anybody else voted for that. this used to be a bipartisan issue. it has become partisan for ridiculous reasons in my opinion and it should be bipartisan securing our border. >> were you a staff in 95-96? >> i was. >> were you sent home? >> i d

. >> he called with our good friend jake sherman the other day in an interview.e said that issue is is a total winner. he believes that he can -- that there's a winner for him both in terms of the border wall, immigration, and a shut down. he believes he can win and that seems to indicate a lot of us that he sort of wants it. >> yeah. >> he thinks the issue of border security -- >> i don't know what he said to jake. i see it as the right thing to do. it's necessary for a lot of reasons. we don't want a shutdown. it makes no sense. i would like to see progress on border security. by the way, back in '06, we passed the secure fence act and chuck schumer and hillary clinton and everybody else voted for that. this used to be a bipartisan issue. >> were you a staffer in 1995 during the shut down? >> yes. >> were you sent home? >> i don't remember. let's see, i was the ld for -- in those days. do you ever think what would have happened instead of mccarthy had fallen short if you stayed at ways and means. >> i thought about it. he called me ten minutes before the confer

. >> we have political's senior writer, jake sherman. you may get his letter in your in box each morning. this article describes an explosive meeting with the chief of staff, john kelly and homeland secretary kirstjen nielsen arguing against this order. why were they incensed? >> this is not traditional behavior from a president. we don't have a militarized southern border as much as he would like to. this is a continuing narrative. the professionals in his administration and people who served in government for many years versus the steven millers and outside groups who have outside influence. i think it's important when keeping in mind this new political order that jeff is talking about. when we get into january 2019, every decision will be subject to oversight from congress which it hasn't been in the past. nielsen and kelly if they are still around, might be dragged in to explain how they got to the decisions and ho had an influence and who is talking to the president. >> when president trump was bringing in all of these generals to s

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kane: he called with our good friend jake sherman the other day in an interview, he said that issue is a total winner. he believes that it is a winner for him both in terms of the border wall, immigration, and if there's a shutdown, he believes he can win. and that seems to indicate to a lot of us he sort of wants one. mr. ryan: we met with him in the oval a couple of days ago. he thinks the issue of border security is a winner. i don't know -- i don't know what he said to jake, i don't think he sees a shutdown as a winner. i think he sees border security as a winner. i see it as the right thing to do because it is necessary for lots of reasons. we don't want a shutdown. there is no -- i have no interest in doing that. it makes no sense. i would like to see progress on border security, which by the way, back in what was it, 2006? i can't -- we passed the secure fence act, and you know chuck , schumer, hillary clinton and everybody else voted for that. i voted for that. this used to be a bipartisan issue. it has all of a sudden become partisan for ridiculous reasons in my opinion. and i

with me now senior writer at politico jake sherman also known as the wolf man's brother.e have a chance of unseating pelosi? i know the national black caucus wants somebody in one of the top two leadership positions. >> i don't know if she's going to be that person. she's not in the race at this moment. there's a lot of steps include going to the caucus vote. she could try to beat her on the floor. i think that would be unlikely. a bunch of us are feet from here. new members keep coming out of office sounding open to supporting pelosi and we wait for this letter. there's rumors that a letter of about 18 members who will not vote for pelosi will come out. it looks like they face planting into rock and they're not releasing this letter. she's cycling through the democratic caucus appearing to, if not lock up votes, convince people she's an alternative that they might consider voting for her. it's stunning. she's done this for 16 years, quite well, a lot of democrats think, is just locking people up and going fthrough the caucus. >> listen we have gotten there far and birds

joining me politico sign your writer jake sherman. one of the folks in the oval office with the president. what happened? >> reporter: the president took a very firm line on a shutdown which is about a week away. nine days away. he said he is insistent on $5 billion of wall funding. to put this in context, shuck schumer says he wants 1.6 in border security which is not a wall. it's technology. it's not a wall. if time was only part of the equation we wouldn't have a problem but time is of the essence. we're nine days away from a shutdown. the president was upbeat and focused on the dead liline and focused on the fact this was a central campaign promise and he wants to fulfill it. in 30 something days democrats will control the house of representatives and he's not going to have a prayer of getting this wall. that's the dynamic he faces now. >> how do republicans feel about this and are they willing to get behind the president if he makes a stand? >> probably. i would say many of them are. this is going to be a deal to be clear that ne

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i'm joined by kimberly at kins, washington bureau cheer and jamaica sherman, senior -- jake sherman, senior writer. and seth richardson, political reporter, thank you all for being here. and kimberly, i know you have been reporting on the state of play in texas, what are you seeing and hearing that could maybe change the game enough to swing this thing in beto o'rourke's favor or if ted cruz can stay ahead. >> the interest is you have a place like deep red texas and you have someone there who's making a really competitive bid against a long time congressman. it speaks to the way the politics in the state are changing and the politics in the whole nation is changing. one thing that's different in this race that you see in some others. beto o'rourke is taking the approach of making the race bigger than one person, bigger than ted cruz and that's a way that has been inspiring, galvanized report and that's kwhi we have -- why we have this 20/20 question pop up. at the same time, there were difficulties in texas where the latino vote is very important. we have seen the democrats there sor

. >>> jake sherman and anna palmer, co-authors of political coe's morning news letter play book.clearly putting on a full court immigration press. is the rest of his party on board with this strategy? >> depends where you go. there's a lot of districts in suburban america, the districts the house republicans need to win to keep control of the house, they are not according to party officials, they are not the kind of districts that would support militarizing the border or eliminating birthright citizenship, which is a principle in the constitution, and they're certainly not because republicans have been saying for the last decade they don't support the president using such sweeping authority to get rid of laws and especially to change the constitution. they're not in favor, many of these people according to party officials, they're not in favor of that. i think we are five days away from the election. there are very few, fewer and fewer undecided voters, and it doesn't seem like these are the kinds of issues that would sway an undecided voter in a year that's supposed to be alread

>> yeah, i sat down with him last night with jake sherman. he did not seem to be in a compromising moods. i will say that. he was very firm. he did not give any other scenarios of maybe not getting quite as much funding. h h he was very stuck to his guns in terms of $5 billion. he wants it as part of the deal. he's very willing to shut down the government over it. he thinks a shutdown would hurt democrats more than republicans. >> he's had a lot of negative headlines over the past few weeks. how would you characterize his mood? >> yeah, i mean, i think he was agreeable. he was talking to us about this issue, and i think he was very measured. he had just met with republican leaders, and so earlier in the day he talked to "the washington post" and had seemed to be maybe a little bit more open to negotiating after the meeting with the republican leadership, he sat down pretty much directly with us after that, and he was very firm, but you know, kind of just kind of saying this is how he sees this issue, and this is, you know, laid out why he was