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December 24, 2018
People want to say shes showing it. this is your first hit. >> she stepped on the bear trap first. >> its coming. its not going to be about who avoids hits, its about who can survive. >> who can take a punch and get back in there and count punch back. a lot of these guys could have glass jaws. a lot of them come from democratic states that havent had real contests like this before. >> the capitol hill candidates, there are a dozen of them. whether its claire mccaskill joked she was in the room w...
December 23, 2018
Those demands in a meeting yesterday. democrats dont see any reason to budge beyond what nancy pelosi and schumer have already offered, 1.3 billion dollars for border security. they are saying the wall should be completely off the table. the president showing no signs of giving up on that topic. yesterday, he had lunch with some of his closest supporters, republican supporters on this issue. instead, dispensing mike pence on capitol hill to see if there was any resolution. the fact they are no c...
December 23, 2018
Congressional correspondent is live there in washington for us. good morning to you. we dont know how long this will go but we do have at least a minimum now based on what we are hearing from the majority leader on when senators will be back to hopefully vote on something. >> reporter: thats right. thursday is the earliest the senate back in session and house too. if any deal is reached, members are supposed to be given 24 hours notice to return to town before voting. the reality here is that th...
December 23, 2018
Going to back down and is he going to do this. hes done it a few times in his presidency, but he also realizes that my base could possibly turn against meme and i think hes trying to stake here and trying to make sure his rhetoric is strong and most of his government shutdown is a kind of rhetorical exercise. less than 20% of government workers are going to go off without pay. they will get pay and happen every time in a government shutdown. we are having a a back-and-forth than passing a politi...
December 23, 2018
Grow. you have done what no other president that has had the fortitude to do. the wall is no different. and you must fulfill this fundamental prom toss it american -- promise to the american people. you cannot buckle. there is no question on january 3, your presidency will face even more obstruction and resistance by the democrats than you have seen in the last two years. they will stop at nothing. they are callously salivating at the prospect of your collapse. the only way to go into this is to...
December 23, 2018
Bid this administration. you talk about being flexible. the president and his team have been fully engaged everi hour making multiple offers. but the answer continues to be the same on capitol hill. we have to check with nancy pelosi. since when do senators to check with nancy pelosi? judge jeanine: chuck schumer is bowing down to nancy pelosi now? whats his problem? >> he is. she is obviously running and going to get the gavel land be the speaker. but when we look at this, what we have to mike ...
December 23, 2018
Schumer said, schumer demands trump aban dont wall. senator schumer, we are not going to abandon the wall, we are going to build the wall until all those americans who want us to abandon the wall and open up the border, thats what there is fight is about, we dont agree with you. mark andor jim and matt deserve the credit for getting the president in a good good spot. we need more money for the wall along the border. schumer wants to abandon the wall, we want to build it. thats what this fight is...
December 23, 2018
I was standing behind nancy pelosi when she claimed the president did not have the votes and he did. i watched nancy pelosi and chuck schumer with non-verbal cues back and forth to each other. this is a crisis. the president ran on that crisis. addressing that crisis. hes willing to take it on face forward for all to see. we have to fix it now. while your passion is shared by myself, the president and the american people, we need to focuseo that vitriol toward the folks in the senate who refused...
December 23, 2018
>> but we came away focused on is how important it is to build this border wall. the reality is this is a national security issue and a humanitarian issue. >> immovable object against senate minority leader chuck schumers irresistible force. here he is. >> you will never pass the senate. not today, not next week, not next year. so mr. president, president trump, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall. . >> adding to the impasse, schumer confirming closely with nancy pelosi...
December 23, 2018
Nancy and chuck, you dont want to put a wall up to stop that? we have spent tens of billions of dollars to fight heroin. but you dont want to spend $5 billion to put up a wall to top heroin for good? nancy and chuck, you beau know this year i.c.e. agents seized enough fentanyl to kill he person in the united states. you dont want a wall to stop it. dont you want to top the human traffickers,ck the child smugglg and the coyotes raping young women, claiming they are families? isnt this what he law...