well laura: that s why it s important to support the challenger to heidi heitkamp. monica, there s a big talk about a potential shutdown now. you know, with a border wall. trump said i want to the omnibus spending bill again. let s watch it with the president said today about this. we need border security. border security includes the wall. but it includes many other things. we have to end the lottery. we have to end the chain. the chain is like a disaster. you bring one person and, you end up with 32 people. the whole thing is a ridiculous. we have to change our laws, and we do that through congress. i would certainly be willing to close it down, to get it done. laura: the democrats are already going insane about this. again, old guard republicans, this will blow the midterm election cycle. what are your thoughts? i think they are afraid that donald trump means it. and you know what? he does. this is a man who relishes everything go fight and when he says i m willing to shut
billionaire set. but for most americans, these are major concerns. now the koch network is taking it a step further. they are now going so far as too financially punish of someme politicians who are supportive of the president s agenda. they announced today that they will not be supporting g.o.p. s north dakota senate candidate kevin kramer, trying to unseat democrat heidi heitkamp. what is the koch reason for that?t well, the republican candidate supported trump on both trade and immigration. at that confab i was mentioning earlier in colorado, charles koch made a big deal about uniting people who were previously divided. what does that p mean? how are these latest retaliatory efforts actually doing that? trump is the one uniting people for all the talk of divisiveness, trump enjoys an 88% approval rating among republicans, according to
the government unless they get real money to start is border wall, they know that he means it. so republicans and democrats i like are really afraid of this. look, of the many reasons donald trump got elected in 2016, the primary one was illegal immigration, building the wall, and all of these issues. ending chain migration, the visa lottery laura: they ve done nothing! and he knows, in order to browse the states going into the midterms, he needs to stick by this premise and shut down the government. laura: chuck schumer had no problem shutting down the government when trump was putting the pressure on with the daca kids, and he wanted to give amnesty, and he was fine with shutting down the government. he tried to pass it off on trump. it wasn t trump. it was the democrats. now trump says, i m not doing the omnibus thing. you should never have signed that other omnibus. he should have vetoed that back then and he wouldn t be in a situation now. but do you think the democrats ar
have to agree with what the white house economic advisor larry kudlow, a free trader himself, said over the weekend. people will say, well president trump s tariffs arere damaging this, that, and the other thing. i say, don t blame president trump. he inherited a completely broken world trading system, including a wto, most particularly china but not only china. okay? he s trying to fix that. laura: remember the kochs supported the job andix sovereignty killing trans-pacific partnership, and the nafta agreement that bush obama, and until the campaign at least, hillary championed. the koch network, like the rest of the g.o.p. old guard, is positively furious with trump so use of tariffs to level the playing field. in fact, they announced s last month that they have committed to a multimillion dollar multiyear campaign to oppose what trump is doing onn trade.
challenger to heidi heitkamp. monica, there s a big talk about a potential shutdown now.rt you know, with the border wall. trump said i won t do the omnibus spending bill again.n. let s watch what the president said today about this. we need border security. border security includes theid wall. but it includes many other things. we have to end the lottery. we have to end the chain. the chain is like a disaster. you bring one person in, you end up with 32 people. the whole thing is ridiculous. we have to change our laws, and we do that through congress. i would certainly be willing toc close it down, to get it done. laura: the democrats are already going insane about this. again, old guard republicans this will blow the midterm election cycle. what are your thoughts? i think they are afraid that donald trump means it. and you know what? he does. this is a man who relishes everything go fight and when he says i m willing to shut down the government unless they get real money to s