He got outflanked today. basically what nancy pelosi told him is you don t really know how to govern. you don t know what you re talking about, and was trying to save him the embarrassment of doing it on television in the oval office in front of everyone. schumer kept saying, let s go and negotiate. let s go and negotiate. he wanted to stay there. but i would be careful about this. the president obviously believes that a shutdown is a win. yes. because the base will believe the border wall was worth fighting on. the democrats therefore need to do more than be strong. they have to be smart, and they have to expose whether or not that is true or false. yeah. are we a wall away from safety? if not, what would they do that would indeed make the system better? that s the hurdle for ultimate success. legislating, when he doesn t have the house he may think that s going to be his biggest obstacle and the investigations, but there s something i m going to talk about in my opening remarks that s going to be his biggest obstacle. maybe he s realized it, or maybe he doesn t. but i think he s in for a rude
Protesters. people looked at that video and said that does cross a line. he responded today. what s he sa reporter: mitch mcconnell joined a corers of our leaders here in congress pushing back on exactly this kind of protest. i think we have the sound. hear his words and talk about this on the other side, if we can. one thing america has been good at most of the time, although we ve had various points in our history where we got off the tracks, is civil discourse. you know. the ability to discuss an issue without getting angry at each other. and there does seem to be a kind of high level of just anger, and some behavioral issues i would say that i wish people would kind of relearn civil discourse. reporter: three points on that. folks who might have been involved in debates over civil
Entrenched and in power, for nancy pelosi, for example. reporter: it s huge and going to continue to develop. joe crowley has been up here 20 years. was a ten-term congressman. in the status of house democratic leadership, he was sort of a young gun. 20 years younger than the top three house demos. he was the numberfour. he was someone who was seen as a potential heir to the throne, if you will. potential nexter of the house if and when nancy pelosi should decide to step down. i asked her about this earlier and i don t think we have time to play the whole thing, but what she pushed back on this and said, nope. this is an issue of one candidate in one progressive district who had, essentially got outflanked and wasn t as attuned to his district as he needed to be, putting off the idea entirely this is a call for a generational leadersnge in the democratic caucus. i m t sure that t members of her party currently here and those who are running to retake the majority will all agree with that. well, fascinating political
Being physical meaning me he said i am going to insight this whole place. i cannot incite a riot in order to save you. he joins me now from baltimore. you re surrounded by angry protesters. the cop says he can t protect you. for you nervous? yeah. i think you d be stupid not to be nervous. the part of that that was so interesting to me is that the police were terrify ofd doing their jobs and as we reported over the past week, it seems like the reason they were terrified is because the mayor held them back. you know the idea that the police were outnumbered and outflanked and outgunned is lunacy. we saw their weapons. we saw how much nonlethal force they 245d. it seems has though they had been told time and time again to just stand down to let it happen that unless they absolutely had to respond, to not respond. i think it s one of the reasons you saw this go on for so long
Being physical meaning me he said i am going to insight this whole place. i cannot incite a riot in order to save you. he joins me now from baltimore. you re surrounded by angry protesters. the cop says he can t protect you. for you nervous? yeah. i think you d be stupid not to be nervous. the part of that that was so interesting to me is that the police were terrify ofd doing their jobs and as we reported over the past week, it seems like the reason they were terrified is because the mayor held them back. you know the idea that the police were outnumbered and outflanked and outgunned is lunacy. we saw their weapons. we saw how much nonlethal force they 245d. it seems has though they had been told time and time again to just stand down to let it happen that unless they absolutely had to respond, to not respond. i think it s one of the reasons you saw this go on for so long