out, the apparent inadvertent revelations indicates a pathway by which the russians could have hadding a is es to trump campaign thdata. president trump s address to the indication came between what could soon be the longest shutdown. it repeated the rhetoric he has used since the beginning of his presidential campaign, claiming a wall will stop the flow of drugs, while depicting immigrants as violent criminals and democrats as their accomplices. my fellow americans, tonight i am speaking to you because there is a growing humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border. this is a humanitarian crisis. a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul. democrats in congress have refusioned to refused to act knowledge the crisis.
who is now the second longest shutdown in u.s. history with the government partially closed. it comes after that set of dualing speeches we saw last night. president trump over the course of eight or nine minutes, making many of the same arguments we heard him make over the last 18 or 19 days, perhaps the newest part of his speech seemed to be the setting. the president in the oval office behind the representatisolute a largely treading territory that he already has before. he did not declare a national emergency. something he signaled he is opened to. he is considering. instead, he framed this as what he described as a humanitarian and national security crisis as expected. you heard democrats take the counter argument there saying this is a crisis that the president, himself, has made. i m parafreezing here. saying they want to address a humanitarian challenge. once the government was opened, they want to make sure that happened first and then negotiate. again, this is a lot of what w
every member of congress pass a bill that end this crisis. how much more american blood must we shed before congress does its job? all right. the president s claim of a crisis that can only be solved by a wall comes as data from his own government shows that most drugs flow through ports of entry and the number of people apprehended or turned away at the boarder is less than half of what it was in recent decade. all right. the president took his message to a forum he had never used before last night. the new york times reports that privately mr. trump dismissed his own new strategy as pointless. in an off the record lunch with television anchors before the address, he made clear in blunt terms he was not inclined to give the speech or go to texas, believe it or not, but was actually talked into it by his advisers, according to two people briefed on the discussion, who asked not to be identified for sharing details. it is not going to change a dam
services for the health, southeast and well being of the american people and withhold the paychecks of 800,000 innocent workers across the nation. many of them veterans. he promised to keep government shut down for months or years, no matter whom it hurt. that s just plain wrong. most presidents have used oval office addresses for noble purposes. this president just used the backdrop of the oval office to manufacture a crisis, stoke fear, and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration. all right. joining us now from washington, d.c., editor-in-chief, political magazine blake, thank you for getting up so early for us. let s talk about the take aways from both the president s comments or his address to the nation and the democrats rebuttal. what were some of the big take aways for you? i think the biggest take away is the president used an oval office address, which is a rare
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