this is cnn tonight, i m don lemon and here we are, another day of government chaos. another day when the institutions we thought that we could depend on look like they re coming apart at the seams. this is day 27 now of this shutdown. day 27, thousands of government workers who have bills to pay, families to feed just like the rest of us, they re forced to go out and work for free, not get paid. the president and speaker of the house doing hand to hand combat, i mean going back and forth. i m going to tell you about how the day unfolded. the president s former attorney admitting that he paid thousands to rig polls in favor of president trump. the president s current attorney conceding the trump campaign may have colluded with russia while insisting the president did not.
to speak on the house floor he counter punched her trip. and that was something clearly expected and she probably expected that to happen. but here s the problem. this has to deal with nearly a million workers that are not getting paid right now that should get paid. and here we have a tit for tat amongst the leader of our country and the speaker of the house. here s the thing, president trump when the conditions of his campaign promise to build this wall changed and mexico was not going to pay for it, he needed to change how he approached this. at the same time if nancy pelosi wants to show that she is willing to make progress and be a speaker of the house, she also has to be willing to negotiate. this might play well in why should she negotiate now when the negotiation was all done before, several deals were on the table that everyone had agreed to and the president backed out on all of them? why is it incumbent upon nancy pelosi to negotiate? now, i don t understand that.
in the constitution. the president has a requirement visit soldier, troops across the spectrum. speaker of the house also has to understand how she s voting for money and how she s voting to support the president in terms of manning and equipping services. general, the president spoke at the pentagon after acknowledging the death of four american servicemen in syria yesterday. h said this. while many democrats in the house and senate would like to make a deal, speaker pelosi, will not let them negotiate. the party has been hijacked by the open borders fringe within the party. the radical left s becoming the radical democrats. according to our team covering it, the room remains silent with no applause, what s your reaction? exactly what they were supposed to do, don. that was a perfect example of using the military to politicize an audience.
convince your boss or the president that is not the way to go, generally they have to follow what the president says and they really do not have a choice in the matter at all. general hurley, a new reporting of the mood in pentagon here. some of the highest ranking officers say there is a new atmosphere of unease inside the pentagon particularly among some of those senior ranks. the amount of time we have to spend making sure our statements and what we say is a political is astronomically higher. dealing a tough block. he takes it a step further.
of military personnel, the president seems to keep for getting that he now is no longer campaigning, he s representing all americans. by dividing the room and saying democrats are terrible and pelosi is bad, they got to give me my wall, that s politiciza o politicizati politicization. god bless all of them in that room for standing as still as they could. does anything embarrass this president? i am not sure don. the general is spot on in this case. if you look ats the proper problem, there are traditions. we are not following certain time tested traditions and time tested ways of doing business and that s a real problem because they are there for a reason. we have a military that s a