o rourke said to jeff he will be making a decision by the end of the month. what did you see here? i saw a campaign by metaphor. that s what 2020 is going to be a lot about. because this issue has not been solved, comprehensive issue to solve the border and dreamers and because government has not been able to solve this problem in a comprehensive way since the last best chance when president bush had good ideas about it. this is a campaign issues out there and the wall is the most powerful metaphor. i saw a presidential candidate running for election, noticed the crowd size for beta o rourke. that s one aspect how the president may run against him and struck how president trump went out of his way to look at the green new deal.
the president s wall issue is a base issue on the right. they re going to have to make a case of who bears more of the blame for shippiutting the government down. but i i do think democrats get more than they had before after several weeks, especially with the issue of knowing the democrats have supported a wall in the past or border fencing in the past. it s all about how it gets defined. how failure gets defined. it is also interesting, kirsten, as we re watching this, you are seeing democrats around the country react in different ways. and the california governor gavin newsom is pulling back the troops that had been deployed at the president s request. he said enough already. i don t want the national guard troops to be down there anymore, he s going to have them doing different things. so democrats seem to be saying they ve had enough in terms of giving things here. yeah. i mean, i find this a little
ones that pressured the president into getting the last one over with, they do not want another shutdown. democrats don t want another shutdown. they never have. so that reality is different than the last time around. however, we are at an impasse that is over something that is different than where we were last time, that the barrier/wall issue had almost been resolved. richard shelby when he talked to reporters thursday said the white house gave him some flexibility to work around that, and democrats seemed willing to build some barriers. this time it s this detention bed issue. i think what we re wait to find out is whether democrats potentially overplayed their hand and lost some higher ground here. my god, this is a complicated issue. kasie, you have your work cut out for you on this one. thank you. we do. thanks, guys. president trump is headed to el paso, texas, tonight, he s taking a pitch his pitch for a hard line stand on the wall to the people at the border. he s goin
moment nothing in washington is going to get done until this wall issue is resolved. the white house had been saying for days that the president would offer some kind of way forward. i didn t hear one last night. i heard basically the same thing that has been said about this issue for the last six weeks, and so in other words today and tomorrow it s not clear to me that there is sort of a plan to get through this. maybe we re just waiting out the clock until the 15th and we can be staring down a shutdown or national emergency and no resolution on the underlying political issue of the wall. what struck you the most? the people. the most powerful moments of the speech were the various people that he talked about, the little girl who had cancer, the gentleman sitting next to the soldier. it seemed like people got more and longer applause than the president himself, which i, you know, as a democrat i would say i feel that is deserved because the last couple years it s the american peop
the white house. that wall issue may be on the bargaining table this weekend. the acting chief of staff with lawmakers up at camp david this weekend. all right. thank you. lawmakers will be paying very close attention tonight to see how the president deals with the border wall issue. republicans are deeply concerned that that order could come some time after the speech. what s the latest you re hearing? it is a revolt that president trump has on his hands, significant that it is brewing from members of his own party. many republicans are essentially saying don t go down this path president trump. they are worried about the constitutionality of it. they are worried about the precedent it would set. here is what top republican on