a message, welcome to divided government. and this is incoming speaker pelosi calling the president s bluff, saying, in effect, are you going to shut down the border, as you promised with border wall funding. the assertion of power. the new washington starting this week. house democrats have subpoena power and how the budget is going to go and the president is not the only game in town and yet to come up with an exit strategy for the shutdown and continues to play with the pace and talking to conservative leaders on the phone but not negotiating. how worried are republicans about that? i mean, at some point, when you have 800,000 people who don t know where the next paycheck is coming from, when a bunch of them are still sitting at home, who s got any kind of influence on him at this point, robert? i know we asked this question all the time and the answer is often the same, yet, at some point, the pressure will mount. the pressure will continue to
exit strategy donald trump is looking for? look, maybe it s a coincidence. maybe trump just said, i want this guy. let s give him a second chance to run my campaign. or maybe there s a why. i think what we ll be seeing heading into 2019 is a lot of the answers to the why. why is the president still trying to build a tower in moscow well into the campaign? why is everybody lying about it? why is he bringing in this deeply compromised guy? if mueller lands the plane on any of those, i think we could see the landscape shift quite a bit. let s see how the trump camp is responding to all of this. his personal attorney rudy giuliani touched on collusion today. he gave mueller this ultimatum. take a listen. my ultimatum is put up or shut up, bob. you know, what do you have? there are those of us who believe you don t have anything on collusion. by the way, if you did, it s not a crime. so what the heck are you doing? do you have anything that shows the president of the united states was
begin the year talking about finance reform, making gerrymandering illegal if they k and they don t want to get into a protracted battle with this administration. but the main thing is this. the president flip flops every time he cease an exit strategy. it s interesting. neil, turning to you, the daily piece, they had an interesting article and they were reporting that they re actually gleeful that the shutdown will be hijacking pelosi s big moment. neil, how true is this? will it actually work. well, i don t think that that s going to necessarily work. if you re incoming speaker pelosi, what s more unify iing
control at some point, ukraine remains out there as well and i would like to see a final reshuffling of our forces in syria, the defeat isis coalition start to do some rebuilding and i would love to see and exit strategy for afghanistan. todd: let s deal in kaylee mcinerney, thanks for getting up with us this morning. what did you make of the president s trip. thinking the troops, and the magnitude of what they do, the sacrifices they have made. getting out of joint base andrews. 10 or 15 minutes ago from the surprise trip to iraq, they stopped in germany to refuel and you see them walking down to the
they re offering in a new bill. that is why you see him moving towards these steel slats instead of concrete. okay. good to speak with all of you. thanks, guys. up correct, what exactly is president trump s exit strategy from syria and afghanistan? hanin (pirate girl) ahoy!!!!! gotcha! (girl) nooooooooooooo! (man) nooooo! (vo) quick, the quicker picker upper!