speaker pelosi and chuck schumer. when the president asked speaker pelosi if i were to fund the government, will you get in to a meaningful discussion with border security priorities? she said no. that s a failure of leadership on speaker pelosi s part. they need to come to the table. the senate members, republicans and democrats are prepared to work together but we have to know we have an honest broker, negotiator on the other side of capitol hill before we can move forward. neil: do you worry that what is happening that a lot of other things, you do want to see get done won t get done and this could be a preview of coming attractions? the shut down could last for weeks or months. i am worried about that. so many things that we can continue to work on together. i m very concerned right now that we re doing virtually nothing. and not moving forward on measures that i know we have bipartisan agreement, whether it s the opioid epidemic, whether it s serious progress on
table. he left the room today because speaker nancy pelosi said that even if he gave her what she wanted, she would never agree to the border security priorities. today the two sides couldn t even agree on what happened inside that meeting, much less a deal to end the government shutdown. president trump called it a total waste of time. earlier in the day, at a bill signing to fight human trafficking, president trump again threatened to go around democrats and declare a national emergency at the border. i have the absolute right to do national emergency if i want. if i can t make a deal with people that are unreasonable. some republicans question if he has the legal authority to do that. i think it would be a very dubious move from a constitutional perspective. with a nuclear option in his back pocket, president trump headed to capitol hill today to try to convince haven t republicans to stand firm and not defect. i would say that we have a
calm in continuing to put different options on the table, nobody slammed their hands on the table, he left the room because nancy pelosi said even if he gave her what she wanted she would never agree to the border security priorities. they couldn t even agree on what happened inside that meeting much was a deal to end the partial government shutdown, donald trump called it is a waste of time. earlier in the day the bill signing to fight human trafficking donald trump threatened to go around democrats and declare a national emergency at the border. i have the right if i want. my threshold will be if i can t make a deal with people that are unreasonable. even republicans question if he has the legal authority to do that. it would be a very dubious move from a constitutional perspective. with that nuclear option in his pocket donald trump headed
we saw a temper tantrum because he couldn t get his way and he just walked out of the meeting. i said to mister president, the evidence of what is happening does not support the crisis you described and therefore the solution using just because we have a better idea of how to keep our country safe and it isn t a wall. they couldn t even agree on what happened in the meeting. mike pence giving his account. the president walked into the room, passed out candy. he left the room because nancy pelosi said even if he gave her what she wanted, she would never agree to the border security priorities we have on the table and that was the president took to twitter with both heels again saying just left the meeting with chuck and nancy, total waste of time. what will happen in 30 days if i
is happening does not support the crisis you described and the solution you suggest, because we have a better idea how to keep the country safe. and it isn t a wall. they couldn t even agree on what happened in the meeting. mike pence giving his account. the president walked into the room and passed out candy. he left the room because nancy pelosi said even if he gave her what she wanted she would never agree to the border security priorities we have on the table and that was unacceptable. afterwards the president taking to twitter saying it was a total waste of time. i asked what is going to happen in 30 days if i quickly open things up? are you going to approve border security which includes a wall? nancy said no. i said bye-bye, nothing else works. this as the president heads to texas border accompanied by dhs secretary kirstjen neilsen.