Politically, from that statement, this white house thinks and well see whether theyre right or not, they can weather the political storm from a Government Shutdown by saying were not negotiating until schumer backs down. They think inside the white house from my conversations with senior officials there, that Chuck Schumer overplayed his hand on daca and they are going to push back here and say we gave you six years of an extension, a long time for Childrens Health insurance, a program, chip as its known that, democrats said they had to have. The president gave on that. Said hes willing to work on daca. The bottom line is, this white house is taking a very hard line in these negotiations. Shannon sounds like it from that statement. All right, ed henry live on the beat for us, thank you. The president foreshadowing a shutdown a short while ago, tweeting, quote, its not looking good. White house correspondent kevin cork joins us with where the white house goes next. Youre right. It was i
i don t think it makes the institution look very responsible. american people should expect better from us than this. shannon: you have been listening to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. we thought, as bret and i were talking about the groups that were having conversations and negotiating looked like maybe they were coming to something. we thought when he came to the lectern there, that maybe oh, let s listen in, we have minority leader chuck schumer speaking. continuing resolution that he knew lacked the votes long before this hour. it s not just democrats who oppose this c.r., several republicans did as well. all of today, mr. president, we have endeavored to reach an agreement with president trump and the republicans that would
several republicans voted against the c.r. as well as democrats for the same reason we voted against it. one of the most serious consequences of having continuing resolution after continuing resolution is the damage it does to our military. as a pentagon spokesman said last night another c.r. would be wasteful and destructive to our military. the navy secretary said that because of c.r.s the navy has put $4 billion in the trash can, poured lighter fluid on it, and burnt it. that s the navy secretary, what you have done. this is no way to conduct the nation s business. republicans know it, democrats know it, the american people know that this party is not capable of governing.
perhaps across the is a some of our democratic colleagues feel proud of themselves. but what has their filibuster accomplished? what has it accomplished? answer is simple, their very own government shutdown. shutdown effects on the american people will come as no surprise. all week as we ve stood on the floor and begged our colleagues to come to their senses, senate republicans have described exactly, exactly what this will mean for america s men and women in uniform, shutting down the government means delayed pay. the many thousands of civilian employees who support their misses its means furloughs. and for the families of fallen heros it may well mean a freeze on century vooifor death benefits survivor death
question, you look like you re chomping at the bit. what are you dying to say? i m loving this, shannon. we have a. who is i am, he s keeping his promises. he s not rolling over and doing the exact opposite of what he was elected to do. this is a president who says i m not going to come in here and give no springs attached amnesty to everyone who wants to come to the country. that s what chuck schumer wants. he is unhappy with the american electorate, he wants to impoort new one. donald trump and the republicans dash. shannon: that s short sighted. i think it s great. if the democrats want to go out and say, hey, we re going to deprive america s military bhaf it needs to fight, what it needs on feed its family, i was in the military when we had shutdowns in the past, in exchange for giving illegal aliens a free pass to american citizenship.