Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190315:16:20:00
Political capital was spent trying to avoid it. there aren't the votes to override, so why bother negotiati negotiating"? in other words, saying let's not talk about it. mr. president, you're going to lose, but just do it, get it over with. don't jack up the coverage of it and make a bigger deal of it. just make it move on. but -- >> yeah, i mean, not make a bigger deal of it? i mean, that's sort of what the president does. he likes to make a big deal of things like this. he wants this to be an issue in 2020. he wants the contrast not only with sort of what might be called squishy republicans ...