Shutdown Impasse News Today

Bret im sorry. I couldnt help it. I will tune. In thank you. Good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, former President Donald Trump says the quarter billion dollars civil Fraud Lawsuit against him is a scam. The former president making the comment as he arrived at the Manhattan Courthouse where the trial began. He is accused of deceiving banks and insurers. No one is above the law. During opening statements, the state argued trump and his family routinely filed infla...

Cave. >> really quick, either he is showing he is willing to give, or perhaps he has even forgotten himself the various sequence of events that have, you know, happened, leading up to this, because some of the overtures that he is willing to make today, reportedly, seem to be overtures that have already been made, whether they were failed, or offered some incentives. >> exactly. i mean there was a broader version of the deal that was offered a year ago in the previous shutdown impasse. but vice ...

Democrats feel they have an extremely strong hand to play right now. its a unifying issue coming into this majority. and, again, what we saw today, lamar alexander, republican senator, he put forward three options that could move past this shutdown impasse. none of those involved what the president is asking for, $5.6 billion. so i think among republicans who are not necessarily in the presidents base and his core constituency, certainly an acknowledgment that the $5 billion of wall funding or p...

Advisers, those who remain, going to be telling him? how are they going to be able to help us get past this shutdown impasse and calm the turmoil that seems to be roiling the markets? >> well, you would hope that they will be back at work today trying to come up with a plan for the shutdown. there should not seem to be one. the president just yesterday in his christmas morning message to the troops took a couple questions from reporters and said he intends to keep the government closed until he ...

Unexpectedly overturn negotiations like a flimsey coffee table. the vacillateliing positions on immigration, in a piece titled, quote, the a president not sure of what he wants complicates the shutdown impasse. quote, one thing was clear to both sides of the negotiations to end it. the president was either unwilling or unable to articulate the immigration policy he wanted. much less, understand the nuances of what it would involve. heres the enduring image of the president during the shutdown. n...

At the same time, the war has not ended. the political war between republicans and democrats is expected to continue. democrats see an opening here to really press leader mcconnell to bring up an immigration vote. if he does not, theyll say you pledged that you would move in some way and maybe we could have another shutdown impasse in february. >> but robert, quickly, is the pledge here, as you understand is from mcconnell, to do the vote before february 8th, or is it just to do the vote at some...

Deals for our country. >> we dont make great deals any more but we will once i become president. candidate trump you see right there bragged a lot that he would fix a broken washington and he bragged it would be easy but a government shutdown at the one year mark is glaring proof washington is not fixed and it is the president whos at the center of not great deal making but of washingtons constant chaos. in the past week alone he twice tweeted opposition to proposals his white house was on rec...