The wall. I believe mexico will pay for the wall. I have a Good Relationship with mexico. Were negotiating nafta. In some form mexico will pay for the wall. But mexico will not pay for the wall and that is why the American Government is on the verge of a shutdown. Donald trump humiliated himself to everyone with a High School Level understanding of government when he first said mexico will pay for the wall. And then he got personally humiliated on the telephone with the president of mexico when the president of mexico told him he would not pay for the wall. To which the president of the United States said, you cannot say that to the press. If you are going to say that, mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then i do not want to meet with you guys anymore, because i cannot live with that. There was the great negotiator the trump voters put in the white house. The great tough guy the trump
country that kind of power. What if his Campaign Speech had been, we will build a wall and i wil
vote. you need unanimous consent to do that. you need cooperation of all 100 senators. although republicans would look silly if they tried to block democrats from letting them have majority threshold on a bill they claim is important to have the government open. sam, i want to go back to the president flying out of town and if the vice president flies out of town, then you know that they don t think there s anything that they can do here. but the president going to florida just completely leaving the scene of the shutdown, how do you expect that will play? well, it s not so much that he s at his own property probably playing golf while tens, if not hundreds of thousands of government workers are furloughed, which is bad optics, i would surmise. but it s also a wasted opportunity. after the 2013 shutdown, one of
interesting and difficult kwu quandaries for lawmakers on the hill. this morning the president tweeted that he didn t want a six year c.h.i.p. extension, which was news to everyone in washington d.c. because that s what the republican strategy has been and is for funding the government. what we were reporting today is that it threw things momentarily into utter chaos on the hill. where republicans are to check if the bill they were attaching the entire government funding operation to would end up being vetoed by the president. that s a peculiar thing to have to inquire about 48 hours before the government shuts down. so he s creating a lot of problems for the process and it doesn t make mitch mcconnell s life easier or chuck schumer s life easier.
global nuclear war that could eliminate the spae secies from planet, there needs to be safeguards in place, one that is in congress right now, house bill 669 for bids any president, not just the current president but any president from launching a first strike nuclear attack against any country without the okay from congress, which is a common sense bill. why would anybody not want congress to at least approve an attack of that nature? that s one thing. the missiles are currently on a hair trigger wire and we need to somehow make a safer system with that. there is house bill 1987 which allows congress to insist that the president get an evaluation, psychological or physical if there is ever any concern he s in incapacitat
only six democrats voted for the bill today. joining us sam stien, daniel dale is also with us. adam, how do you see this play unfolding on the senate floor tonight? one of the things you re seeing tonight is more manipulation by mitch mcconnell because one of the secrets of the senate is it can move very fast when it wants to. the bill that came over from the house could be voted on tonight. but they re trying to show they can defeat it and leave another day in negotiations. and a day in negotiation terms, especially this close to a deadline is eons. so mitch mcconnell is preventing a vote from happening.