Ryan Costel News Today

>> i dont think many people are taking the president seriously as it relates to immigration at the southern border. i was having a little bit of fun there. on a serious note, some of the actions that hes taken in syria and what hes said hes going to do in afghanistan. there are concerns related to our credibility and our consistency with our allies around the world and where we do provide aid. so, you know, in that regard, i do get concerned with some of the tweets and what they mean or what the...

Exception to that. the new poll finds 47% of americans hold donald trump responsible for the shutdown compared to just 33% for democrats in congress. republican congressman ryan costel of pennsylvania joins us. thanks for being on. been kind of a slow week on capitol hill. let me start with the presidents tweets and the comments from the white house. do you really believe that democrats want to protect illegal undocumented immigrants more than americans, as the white house is saying? >> no. no. ...

Pelosi was really tough, or theyre going to say you dont have the votes for your wall? >> heres the thing, they are in charge. it is ryans party in charge of the house, the senate and the white house. so nancy pelosis message to the president is you dont have the vote but you have the ability to get this done. if youve got the votes, you dont need us. >> and you have more leverage in january. so if it shuts down democrats have more leverage in january. so any deal we get can only be as conservat...

Sparring yesterday with president trump. as "the washington post" wrote, it was proof positive this is no time to elect a rookie with the toughest negotiations with american policies. heres what happened yesterday. >> i also know nancys in a situation where its not easy for her to talk right now and i understand that. >> mr. president, please dont characterize the strength that i bring to this meeting as a leader of the house democrats who just won a big victory -- >> for more im joined by tonig...

>> ryan, what do you make -- this is tricky business but im going to go in here, what do you make of trumps pousture sitting in that room? what would you call that? the man spread or whatever you call that. he widens his legs as far as possible, man spreading, and also mansplaining. >> i think that ms. pelosi probably did herself very well with any undecided democrat and with base voters. i will say this, though, for president trump when he leaned in and told senator schumer ill own the shutdown...

She was talking about running very seriously. >> i saw beto earlier. i saw swalwell in the gym. he was talking about it. >> who could beat trump in pennsylvania? >> biden and klobuchar. bloomberg, interestingly, i think in the suburbs would do very well. i dont know what he does in the northeast and southwest. >> hes very pro-choice. >> i just think amongst working class democrats and, again, in the southwest and the northeast, i dont know. >> biden in the general would be somebody that trump wo...