more on his base, in a way, sean hannity, rush limbaugh, these guys, they are trump s wall of support in the media. i thought it was an extraordinary moment. he just sort of started going through them. yes, he started ticking them off. praising laura ingram. the mention of laura ingram stood out to me, she s been tough on him, saying this is a fiasco, this budget compromise. there are voices on fox that have been pushing the president to take a harder stand. but at the end of the day, they accept what has happened and they support him, they mostly be grudgingly continue to back him up. i find that what happens in these cases, when the president suffers a political defeat. right wing media voices focus on something else instead, they change the subject. one of the big stories for them is about andrew mccabe s book. the idea of who by the deep
we ought to have faith in that system. i understand, we ve had problems coming to resolution, but let s face it. what the president introduced at the last moment after a budget compromise was struck and the senate indicated willingness to pass legislation to keep the government open was a new element. a new edition beyond what we had already agreed to. we shouldn t stop government from exercising the responsibilities that we have already agreed to fund in order to get leverage to do something that we have not yet come to an agreement on it. that is the biggest concern i have about this. is that we seem to have people who have so little faith in our system and government that they are willing to shut the government down in order to get something in exchange for reopening the government and provide the basic elements of the civil society. i think this is a really bad moment for us. eric: what about the broader issue concerning the democrats back in 2006, for example, voted for exactly
what the country doesn t want i m just going to shut down the government. if you reward the president with that kind of tactic, jake, then we re going to see every year the president shutting down the government and we just can t afford to do business that way. and for more on this let s turn now to steven erlanger in brussels. he is the chief diplomatic correspondent in europe for the new york times. good to have you with us. thanks, rosemary. so we re seeing both sides digging in with no budget compromise reached in the latest meeting. and now president trump is threatening to declare a national emergency to get military funds for his wall. where do you expect this to go politically, and what s it going to take to end the partial government shutdown? well, that s the $5 billion question. for trump it has become such a symbol. his campaign aides have said that they got him to think about the wall so he would remember to talk about immigration on the campaign trail. but now i
new york. for more on what could happen next, richard johnson joins us now. he s a lecturer in u.s. politics and international relations at lancaster university in england. thank you so much for being with us. thank you. so both sides refusing to budge, as we see, with no budget compromise reached so far and president trump threatening to declare a national emergency to get military funds to build his wall. where s this all going, do you think, and how might this shutdown end? well, if it continues into next week, we re looking at the longest federal shutdown in u.s. history. the record was 21 days under president bill clinton. on the one hand you have members of congress including members of the president s own party who are increasingly feeling that this needs to be resolved as quickly as possible but on the other hand the president i think is reasonably relaxed about the
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