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Us. so heres where we are right now. the white house meeting with the president started with candy. it ended less than a half an hour later with a tantrum. and if you thought the whole no adults left anymore thing was a metaphor, maybe you should think again because heres what happened inside the room. this is according to a congressional aide, okay? they used to say on the golden girls. sicily, picture it. so picture it. 1600 pennsylvania avenue. senator chuck schumer saying, you are using peop...

Today, house democrats are voting on the second of four funding bills aimed at reopening parts of the federal government. yesterday the house approved the first bill to fund the irs and other financial agencies which the white house has threatened to veto. during that vote, eight house republicans broke ranks and voted with the democrats on that bill. joining us now is one of them. republican congressman adam kinzinger of illinois. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. why did you ca...

Chris, the real issue here is if you have a policy difference you dont take hostages. you dont have -- making 800,000 people, 440,000 who are working and not getting paid. ironically, many of those people are on the border. what do you think they think when theyre not getting paid and their services arent being valued? shutting down the government, mitch mcconnell called a failed policy, and he said he was the opener of government not the shutdown of government, and i agree with him. i hope he w...

The president in a good mood, passing out the candy. telling the lawmakers they had a copy of the latest budget request from the white house in front of them which laid out their immigration priorities, this, that they cobbled together over the weekend during negotiations with democrats, but things went downhill from there as the president and nancy pelosi were going back and forth most of the time. it wasnt all chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and the president. the it was mostly just the preside...

President trump blew up the bill hed backed under pressure from anti-immigration advisers, looking at you steven miller, and the right wing media. now democrats control the house. the leverage has increased but president trump is pushing a one-sided version of compromise that doesnt reflect political reality. as trump points out democrats supported a border fence in the fast with senator schumer, barack obama and hillary clinton backing the 2006 secure fence act which led to a decline in border ...

. senator chuck schumer today accused president trump of using people as leverage in his words in the shutdown. one thing is hard to dispute, there is a human cost, a large human cost to the standoff, and it goes beyond the government workers who were directly affected, whether its families waiting for the fda or waiting for life saving medical supplies or the millions of people who fly every day. we have a look at a husband and wife who both work as air traffic controllers. >> okay, give me a...

Senator chuck schumer today accused president trump of using people as leverage in his words in the shutdown. ob speegs one thing is hard to dispute, there is a human cost, a large human cost to the standoff, and it goes beyond the government workers who were directly affected, whether its families waiting for the fda or waiting for life saving medical supplies or the millions of people who fly every day. we have a look at a husband and wife who both work as air traffic controllers. >> okay, giv...

Right now, where the president stands from kaitlyn collins at the white house. so what else are we learning about what happened in this meeting because theres different points of view on it clearly here. >> there are. we know for sure that meeting was short. only about 14 or 15 minutes we are told by sources. it started out kind of on a lighter note. the president in a good mood passing out the candy. telling the lawmakers they had a copy of the latest budget request from the white house in fron...

Into a corner and nancy pelosi outmaneuvered him in that televised session. he took the bait, put himself in the corner and now hes stuck. but that doesnt justify doing things which are not in the national interest. hes still the president. not a political hack trying to figure out how the save his skin. there are bigger questions when youre the president. bigger responsibilities and frankly, he doesnt have the team in there thats willing to stand up to him and say you cannot proceed on this pat...

The president. all of these things have to be taken into consideration when he is make ag determination to use the emergency powers. definition of emergency is courts will defer to the president on what the definition of emergency is. that is something to take into account. they have to look at the courts and where they are going to be challenged. if an injunction does issue on this then he is put right back in the same circumstance which is back negotiating and will have lost leverage. >> excep...