Now she has the opportunity -- she can make a deal. She can come together, she can buck her base and actually find a compromise.

You can't beat the guy up when he says, OK, I will have it your way, Nancy, we'll do exactly what you want, we'll sit down with you, we'll negotiate.

I think frankly for good reason, I honestly support the President on this. But, you know, also -- I mean, the President we've seen is not long on empathy. I mean, he just doesn't really connect with people.

The Democrats are playing political hard ball with this President and they think they have an advantage.

I hope the President hears that. I hope Commissioner Gottlieb hears that.

They're not going to make that mistake.

Look, for the president, this comes down to two things -- number one, impeachment. And the House is going to do what the House is going to do. The Senate will never, at least given the current state of play right now, is not going to come…

The chance to beat Donald Trump is not going to be through impeachment.

It's going to be obvious that the best way to do that is to do all the harassment, maybe even -- there may be some smoke of impeachment or even some discussion, but the idea of actually trying to force an impeachment resolution in the…

Look, if there was a substantive reason why Democrats didn't want to support this wall, there might be a reason to bend. But it's not substantive.

So the idea that this is a policy discussion, it's not. This is purely political. I think the president in that regard has to stand firm.

I don't see anything in the Mueller leaks and other information that's been out there that rises to this level at this point.