it may well be the most damaging in history. and as the shutdown is getting closer to grinding into its 29th day, the president says he is making what he calls a major announcement concerning the humanitarian crisis on our south everyone border and the shutdown at the white house. he says he ll offer a proposal to end the shutdown, but without giving in on the wall. so it remains to be seen whether that s another presidential stunt related to the wall or a substantive announcement. it s always a question with this administration. is it a stunt, or is it substantive? and on a day when the president found himself in a white house partially emptied out by the shutdown, he seized on a conservative newspaper report, itself with very vague sourcing, that prayer rugs have been found at the border. a racist innuendo that muslims
nancy pelosi trying to cancel the president s state of the union, the president taking away her military planes for a foreign trip and now the conversation is back about the shutdown, about how to solve the shutdown and both sides are offering a solution now. it s pretty easy to assume that the other one isn t going that democrats are not going to outright take trump s solution, trump is not going to outright take their solution, but at least their opening up their original absolutist positions and that is reason to feel optimistic. we re almost a month into this shutdown. like you said, people are hurting. next friday that will be the second paycheck people do not receive. 800,000 federal workers, so both sides do need to come to the table and they do need to open up what they re willing to take and that does sound like that s what they re doing. they do have a ways to go. it s not just those 800,000 employees, four in ten american know somebody who s impacted by this shutdown in
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contribute. michael cohen is lying. he s a weak person. later today, president trump plans to make an announcement on the shutdown. now in its 29th day. on border security as well. will he declare a national emergency? when it comes to keeping the american people safe, i will never, ever back down. the president announces he plans to visit dover air force base to be with the families of four americans who lost their lives in syria. and the president s feud with speaker nancy pelosi continues to heat up. i don t think the president would be that petty, do you? saturday, january 19th and nancy pelosi is explaining the house rules to the president. you don t get to come into my house and do the state of the union in the usual televised way. no tv until you do your homework. that s what she told him. that would be this morning. beth fooly is the senior politics editor here at msnbc. don calloway is the democratic
the longest-running shutdown is now in it s 29th day as renegotiations to open government have ground to a halt. the president is teasing an announcement today at 3:00 p.m. concerning the humanitarian crisis on our southern border and the shutdown which has created a real crisis for 800,000 federal workers, many have gone a month without pay. they ve been forced to line up at food banks. across the country they re taking to the streets in protest. will the stand-off between president trump and nancy pelosi has gotten personal and petty. the president grounding nancy pelosi and bussing her back to the capitol after denying the speaker a military flight to afghanistan to visit u.s. troops there days after she asked the president to punt his primetime state of the union until the government reopens. we re getting crushed, president trump told his acting chief of staff after watching coverage of