you know, we sit next to high school students that are sick, we sit next to widows, we see the suffering that they don't, and we're down there to fight for them. >> we're not begging, we're demanding. in 2010 we begged. in 2015 we acted nice. we're not there little engine that could. we are the engine that did already and we have done it once, twice, three times, and we're a formidable adversary, and we're not taking this lightly. there are people sick and dying that are going to die in the very near future that are going to leave their families in financial ruins and mitch mcconnell and the rest of the senate, lindsey graham and others need to sense our urgency because these nmen and women in uniform and nonuniform, the people in lower manhattan, they need this now, today, right now, yesterday, and it's going to be stressed today. >> president trump was asked about this this week. let me play for you what he said. >> i liked what jon stewart did. i actually did.