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Thank >> very important day. i want to thank you. it's a terrific day to be together. you're in a very famous place. we all work very hard and i don't know if you call it influence. i don't know if you call it power. whatever it is, we are in the white house. we are going to stay in the white house get our agenda done beautifully. [applause] i am thrilled to welcome you here, and were all working very hard and i don't know if you know but we just hit 27,000 on the dow. the highest in history.

It's all bad. it's all pad but here's what my folks want. they want us to not only get out of the shutdown but get out of it in a way where we discredit the use of a shutdown ever again rather than give it power. so for example, if we let the president, by taking paychecks away from fbi agents and air traffic controllers force us to do a deal we don't want to do, he will use that tactic every time he doesn't get what he wants and my federal employees completely get that. so what they're saying to me, i was with coast guard folks earlier today, they're saying get us out of this shutdown, but do...

Not being blamed? >> it's bad for workers and citizens and bad for our reputation. it's all bad. it's all bad. here's what my folks want. they want us to not only get out of the shutdown but get out of it in a way where we discredit the use of a shutdown as a threat again rather than give it power. for example, if we let the president, by taking paychecks away from fbi agents and air traffic controllers, forcing us to do a deal we don't want to do, he will use that tactic every time he doesn't get what he wants, so i was with coast guard folks earlier today, and they are saying get the governm...

Feeling a little better. and their military is constitutionally not allowed to actually participate in wars around the world. add to that the lowest adult social media participation rate in all of these countries, and suddenly, you say this isn't a model that we could even try to adapt to in the united states. so, 2019's going to see a lot more populism, unfortunately for those that hope that the center is going to hold, than 2018 had experienced. >> and david, when they look around the world at the united states -- mine, you've had to do this as foreign minister of britain -- what did they --...

Per capita even though the economy is not growing they are feeling better. the military is constitutionally not allowed to participate in wars around the world. add to that the lowest adult social media participation rate than all of these countries and suddenly you say this isn't a model we could even try to adapt to in the united states. 2019 is going to see more populism unfortunately for those that hope that the center is going to hold than 2018 experienced. >> david when they look around the world at the united states, i mean you have had to do this when you were foreign minister of brita...