people calling out sick because they are forced work without pay. however, i like to point out, some headlines can be misleading we don t know what the average sick rate for individual airport. for example the pr person for the t.s.a. stated, this is a tweet from sunday, nationwide, t.s.a. screened approximately 2.22 million passengers yesterday, historically busy day due to holiday travel. but 99.8% of passengers waited less than 30 minutes. lawmakers still haven t figured out their exit strategy when it comes to the shutdown. the white house alluded they do not want a piece by piece situation where you only opening up certain agencies. they want entirety government to reopen. we had shuck schumer sag saying
we just want steel slats and that s what we wanted for a while. no, that s not true. it was a concrete wall during the 2016 campaign and it has been one up until now and now the president is trying to act as steel slates are something different. but it s something heef khe s come up with and they re not. i do think that this purported national emergency the president s talking about could be an exit strategy. he could say because he signaled this before the shutdown occurred where he said, well, even if democrats don t give me this money, i m going to use the military to build the wall. so if he were to say, i m declaring a national emergency, i m directing the department of defense to construct barriers on dod land because the dod does own some of that border land, then there would be a court fight but at least it could get him out of the situation he s in right now. sure. everyone understands we re not sending john snow to the reio
as nadine was saying there s really no way to know exactly what trump wants. senator lindsey graham and trump and even nick mulvaney earlier today were trying to says it not exactly a wall, it s not exactly a concrete barrier. we just want steel slats and that s what we wanted for a while. no, that s not true. it was a concrete wall during the 2016 campaign and it has been one up until now and now the president is trying to act as steel slates are something different. but it s something heef he s come up with and they re not. i do think that this purported national emergency the president s talking about could be an exit strategy. he could say because he signaled this before the shutdown occurred where he said, well, even if democrats don t give me this money, i m going to use the military to build the wall. so if he were to say, i m declaring a national emergency, i m directing the department of defense to construct barriers on dod land because the dod does own some of that border
has no exit strategy. at some point and we ve seen donald trump do this in the past he will declare victory in some way, but he s got to do it in such a way that he can save face. but there s two things that were reckless but there won t be a wall. there won t be a wall. and the shutdowns are never popular, so he s not going to run the first years-long popular shutdown. yeah, no, but he s the guy who could have the pile of you know what in the driveway and say there s a pony buried in there. right. this is donald trump. but two things i think were reckless about what he said today we ve got to take seriously. his threat, which may be meaningless, to keep the federal government shut down for years. imagine the ceo of a major corporation with thousands of employees and stockholders saying i m going to shut down the corporation if i don t get what i want. number two, this idea that he might invoke a national emergency powers to have the military build this, this should b
but is he grasping for an exit strategy? my guest this is morning, nick mulvaney. house majority leader democratic steny hoyer and susan collins. plus, impeachment politics. we re going to go in there and impeach the [ bleep ]. democrats should be careful about impeachment talk but will she be able to stop her new activist members? also, gender politics. no sooner elizabeth warren announced for president hello, sioux city. that we began to see stories like this, suggesting that warren like hillary clinton is too unlikable to win. the debate over different treatment women get on the presidential campaign trail. joining me for insight and analysis are kasie hunt. david brooks, columnist for the new york times. former congresswoman donna edwards. and matthew continetti.