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>> chris, for the president who is about to meet as you mentioned with the secretary of homeland security, the fema administrator as well as his homeland security adviser, this is one of those moments at a time when this country is so divided politically, and where it can often seem in washington even the basics of government functioning can take a lot of work and effort and brinksmanship. it's a moment where the president wants to highlight the ways in which government can work as it's intended to do. that's why we saw the president on saturday speak to the american people while he was in del...

Community, and i think, you know, we've done pretty well. to keep government functioning at the most basic level, and then it was a big deal to get additional support. we have always been able to get the vaccines out, never able to get the quantities we needed. now we're in the strange position of we can vaccinate more people if they would just come through the door. 93% of the population over 65 is fully vaccinated. and 99% of them have one dose, and of our whole eligible population, we have hit 84.6% fully vaccinated. those are high numbers, and a lot of it is this ad campaign that reached o...

Than capitalism. the 2020 election is going to be a fight between the free market and socialist policies. bernie sanders believes in marxism and communism. he has praised communist russia, as you just saw, with the quote there. he thinks that bread lines are an example of a government functioning. he wants america to be like venezuela. he's on the side of maduro right now. he doesn't want the united states go on behalf of the people there and bolstering him. we should take them seriously. he wants a different vision for america than it has been. based on the number of people who believe in tha...

Down ended. they want to see me continue to advocate that we end the shut down. we we created talk about the crisis in the country, we have hundreds of thousands that are working in public service are at home. and their work is not getting done. >> do they want to see you fund the wall to open the government? >> they want to see government functioning and people talking to each other. it was not demands of i must do this this way or that way, i searchly do not want to begin walking down a path of disagreements between the administration and the legislative branch that we find ourselves at a ju...

Stipulations on what that money would be used for. what's changed is the president has proven himself to be a totally unreliable negotiator. back in december he told mitch mcconnell if they passed the pending bills, he would pass them. the senate passed them unanimously and he said i still want my $5 billion. as chuck schumer said it's like negotiating with jell o. i think there's a bigger problem in this situation. that is that the president seems to think that getting the government back open is the concession that he needs to make to democrats. that's not a concession. that's our fundamenta...