first, speaker pelosi pushed the president to postpone his state of the union address. then the president abruptly grounds the speaker s flight to afghanistan. when will this back and forth end? when will we ever come together or they i should say to reopen the government? let s discuss. hello. if we had the answer to that question, right, we wouldn t need to be sitting here on television. how do you read this, frank, and what s going on in washington? is this a both sides thing? well, what s happened is this has gone from being a policy fight to being an intensely intense fight. he is now trying to humiliate her back. he hates nothing more than feeling like someone has the upper hand and has shamed him. what he did today was so incredibly personal. it was the use of the word excursion in the letter, the use of the word public relations
excursion. as a public relations event especially coming from a president who has yet to visit the troops in afghanistan, as commander in chief. perhaps if he visited them in afghanistan he would recognize this isn t a public relations event but the job of one of the leaders of our government to tell them the truth and tell them we appreciate their service. everybody stay. a lot more to talk about. collusion or no collusion? seems like the president and his lawyers can t get their story straight. come on dad!
troops excursion. as a public relations event especially coming from a president who has yet to visit the troops in afghanistan, as commander in chief. perhaps if he visited them in afghanistan he would recognize this isn t a public relations event but the job of one of the leaders of our government to tell them the truth and tell them we appreciate their service. everybody stay. a lot more to talk about. collusion or no collusion? seems like the president and his lawyers can t get their story straight. (vo) we re carvana,
is anybody feeling good about any of this, about all of this? well, as i said last night maybe this guy is. there he is putin. so let s go through it all point by point. first, there s a story everybody s talking about tonight president trump versus nancy pelosi in this corner, right, and then in this corner. trump advisers said it best, this is king kong versus godzilla. the president denying the speaker a plane on her military trip to afghanistan and suggesting she fly commercial to a war zone. so a trip that was kept under wraps for security reasons as trips to a war zone usually are is publicly revealed by the president. all this coming about an hour before pelosi was supposed to leave. members of the delegation on the bus, their plane sitting on the runway. and predictably it sparked indignation on both sides. i m just shocked she didn t
i think splitting it down the middle is the deal that pence and mulvaney offered early on and then the president repudiated it. so he was not willing to accept that deal. and democrats have an upper hand here because they have voted to reopen the government. republicans and democrats notice senate have voted to reopen the government and leave the issue of homeland security and the border wall for further negotiation and the president has refused. so when he sends letters to pelosi saying you shouldn t leave while we have 800,000 people out of work, he has the ability to put them back to work, the congress has agreed to put them back to work at various times here and he won t do it. but i do think the other point, don, look she played hard brawl. she doesn t want to give him the platform of the state of the union to litigate this issue. he then responded and kind of threw a spitball back. the thing i thought that was astonishing about it, though, was referring to a trip to afghanistan