for example, balsaid, books, and statues like this one in west virginia depict john henry as large and muscular, a paul bunyan type, but the real guy was described as a small man, perfectly sized for tunnel work. and the machine that he battled, the steam drill, took his life with chemicals, not by noble exhaustion. and did the same to many of the black laborers who were forced to hand drill holes deep into solid rock in order to set explosives to cut into the mountains. their inhalation of dust and chemicals, the exposure to disease, that gets left out. we don t learn about the chinese migrants who laid the tracks of the transcontinental railroad either. but we do know about the railroad tycoons who emerged in the gilded age. theodore roosevelt sought to end business monopolies like theirs, going after a railroad holding company that threatened to monopolize rail traffic across the western united states.
the alsaid today isle said toda optimistic they can reach an agreement on immigration. we need to repair the wall, we need to do whatever we can to secure the bordersborders. we had $42 million to spend on america with that order in 2017 but also there was a pathway for 2 million people. you can t have big on one end of it and also medium and small on the other end. i think that s what we re trying to figure out. i ll work with susan collins, our commonsense coalition, i think, is going to be the grounding, if you will, of what will pass or what can move through the senate. we re going to meet monday night and start over again trying to find that commonality that we ve been able to do, and there is no way anyone should be considering any more of a shutdown, even talking the nonsense of a shutdown. let s get down to business and fix it. and we can do it.
the american people. it s an kpuexcruciating moment evangelicals and is beneath the baseline of decency we should expect. charma, ne. alis a friend of mine and someone i respect. i want to take a slightly different stack, i d really like to harken back to something you were talking about earlier, don, about selective outrage. donald trump has not been running as a choir boy, that s not who he is and i agree with you when you said we and alsaid, as well, it s really kind of interesting all the sudden this has turned into something that s blown up. donald trump himself agreed with the president. he came out within hours after this tape came out and gave a pretty sweeping and comprehensive apology and let s face it we know that s not