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JUST IN: Former Trump economic adviser Cohn tells @SRuhle at Davos of his message to President Trump:

"The government needs to be open, the government needs to be open ... he has to get the government open."

@SRuhle Cohn to @SRuhle on the shutdown vs. wall funding standoff: “Look, the government should be open. To put 800,000 government employees out of work to fight over a wall and immigration -- we need immigration in the United States, we need legal immigration in the United States.”

@SRuhle Cohn on the shutdown vs. wall funding standoff: “If we want to continue to grow our economy, there’s only one way to do it: allow immigrants in the country. They should be legal, and we should have a mechanism for them to come into the country.”

@SRuhle Cohn: "It's very clear: I'm not an advocate of tariffs and I'm not an advocate of trade wars."

@SRuhle: "Is that why you left the White House?"

Cohn: "Let's just start with that."

.@SRuhle presses Cohn on President Trump's criticism of Mary Barra over GM job and plant cuts:

"Mary Barra is doing exactly what she should do," the board is fulfilling their fiduciary responsibilities, and Barra is responding to the market.

@SRuhle Cohn: “A lot of his ideas are phenomenal. A lot of things he’s doing are great, and people don’t understand: he’s growing the economy, he creating jobs, he’s doing the right things…”

@SRuhle: The government is shut down, Gary.”

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