Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190102:22:01:00
It is not helping the republicans to be the owners of this shutdown. today we gave them an opportunity to get out of that and open up the government as we debate border security. and to say to them, because he says he won't sign it and use the government as hostage, we should just give in, the american people don't want that. >> we're asking the president to open up government. we are giving him a republican path to do that. why would he not do it? >> it's a development that should shock nobody. this meeting was apparently a bit of a mess, and that's acc d according to the republicans who just...