He's got himself in a corner. He is desperately looking for a way out. He's turning to this ridiculous idea of taking money away from Puerto Rico and California and other places and putting it on what is not a serious crisis.

It's totally irresponsible for the White House to continue the charade when so many federal workers are about to lose their paychecks.

I think the president declaring a national emergency gives him an out with his base.

Yes, he has every reason to do this, because his major accomplishment has been the quality of the economy.

I think he's playing a losing hand, John. It all started back with that meeting with Nancy Pelosi. My interpretation... was that Nancy Pelosi outmaneuvered him.

Leadership of the world is in the hands of an egomaniac who doesn't want wise counselors around him, just underlings. Buckle up. These two years could be more turbulent than the last two.

Only 33 percent of the polls say it's worth shutting down the government to get the wall. I think he's ultimately going to have to surrender.

The obvious play for Nancy Pelosi is to pass a bill in the Democratic House, calling for a continuing resolution that goes up to February 8th, which is what the Republicans in the Senate accepted earlier.

This is a victory for the other side.

What happens? We leave those Kurds to be slaughtered. We destroy our reliability in the Middle East.

I think there's a lot of truth to it. As that graphic showed, it's not just six different organizations, but they are now according to wired, 17 different criminal investigations underway.