every day ordinary people have to understand their power. i mentioned this off air. i wish we had a language in our public discourse we have the teachers in los angeles, the second largest school district in the country striking and if tsa and air traffic controllers and essential workers stepped out for a day, we can make these people what would happen if that happened, carlos? that would get the american people s attention. i was at a dinner a couple of nights ago and people asked why is this going on so long and said this is the reason. we re having a nice dinner here. government is shut down but most of us don t see it. now the federal workers do and those who depend on the government services. but what you said, why the default to base politics. where the statesmen and women that say there is a grand bargain here and increase funding for border security and do something for 2 million young immigrants brought to the country and give them a path to citizenship and everyone c
it s always so easy. we reach for this base politics. it s true at this point. if president trump heard the message loud and clear on that friday or thursday, when ever it was when he pulled the rug out from congressional republicans and said he wouldn t sign the continuing resolution, he heard loud and clear from his base. if he doesn t have the biase, h doesn t have anybody behind him. that s brought us to the point where we are today. the president had pledged to paul ryan or there were indications from the white house he would sign that six-week continuing resolution to keep the government open to avert this partial shutdown. he changed his mind. the senate voted by voice vote, republicans and democrats, that s how non-controversial it was to vote for that money to keep the government running. it went over to the house. speaker ryan, kevin mccarthy,
as senator schumer said earlier this afternoon, there will be and yesterday as well, there will be no wall today, no wall tomorrow, and no wall on january 3rd, when the democrats take the house majority. joel payne who do you think has more leverage here? is it democrats or republicans? if you think it is republicans at all, is their time very quickly running out? i think democrats have the leverage. here s what i would also say, the idea that the president cares about the issue of immigration or this is a passion project for him. the only passion project for donald trump is donald trump. this is all about 2020. this is all about base politics. he knows this issue whips up his base. he s on a war footing for 2020. this is an opportunity for him to get pem like ann coulter and rush limbaugh radicalized and representized for 2020. in fact he is even radicalizing the senate. you have flake and, coulder who are leaving. corey gartner, susan collins are
from mayhem like me. mayhem is everywhere. so get an allstate agent. are you in good hands? welcome back. time now for the lid. panelists back. geoff, carol, david. we joked at some point the the president was going to blink when it came to the government shutdown showdown and declare victory. seems like exactly what they decided to do, we can t win, therefore we won. the president had to be seen at least putting up a fight. the whole shutdown thing hit the buzz saw of base politics. clearly we know border security, that s the one issue where president trump derives his most solid connection to his core supporters and democrats clearly were not going to give him a money for a border wall from sea to shining sea, especially because they believe it not to be a viable policy issue but also because they believe it stems from his anti-immigrant,
look, we re not disagreeing that much. but whatever semblance of a working relationship exists between the three of them, today it hit the buzz saw of base politics. the democratic base is not having any parts of a donald trump border wall. they will not allow him to claim victory on that, especially it derived from they say his thinly veiled anti-immigration pitch. so at this point both sides are dug in and there s no real off-ramp for either side, ali. that was pretty remarkable. i m wondering whether the white house thought that meeting was going to go that way or wanted it too because the entire world got to see that dysfunction straight up in person. jeff, thanks ve geoff, thank. geoff bennett at the white house. the resolution expires next friday or they would need a continuing resolution to keep it going. house majority leader kevin mccarthy announced today house republicans would be out of session this coming monday and tuesday, leaving only a total of five days to avert th