instead, they wanted to use those 9 million kids as pawns to try to force democrats to go for short-term funding of the government. mcconnell posted this choice. millions of children that depend on the government for health care or hundreds of children that were brought in here illegally. among his many talents and field of expertise, malcolm, knows something about hostage negotiation. you have all these background. we brought you on specifically, because there has been this hostage metaphor used with the way that mitch mcconnell played this game. i want to put back up his own tweet, which essentially admitted what he is doing. he said you can save one of these two hostages. you can save the chip kids or you can save the daca kid but
democrats don t want to support chip funding. chip expired three months ago. what was holding up republicans from putting a clean chip bill on the floor. that would have passed easily. nothing. they waited until this moment when there was a crisis that was manufactured by the president by taking away daca and having all of these d.r.e.a.m.ers basically living in limbo. and they attached it to this necessary funding bill to say democrats only care about d.r.e.a.m.ers and illegal immigrants and don t care about the chip kids. pinning essentially d.r.e.a.m.ers against chip. i think when we re in this moment of purely cynical politics, it can be very disheartening as a citizen. republicans are going to own the shutdown because they literally control everything. so they can t say democrats are creating a mess in washington and it is so dysfunctional. when you re in charge, you own it. joe, i want to play what
couple of them, i have every reason to believe they did so on principle and it is the right to do so just as it is chuck schumer s right to obstruct and shut the government down. so you are saying only one party has principles and chuck schumer is some sort of abject evil and your party, when they don t vote against their own leader s bill have principle but the democrats do not. no. i m pretty confident i didn t say that. because their principle was you can t take 9 million c.h.i.p. kids hostage and then say it is the daca kids or the c.h.i.p. kids and they felt in principle it is immoral. and in principle they are playing to their base. so are the democrats. sure. and both sides do. so there is no question about that. my least favorite phrase is both sides. but go on. well it is true. no. and the reality is that the democrats support everything that it in this bill. and something that is very
it s not like people have an expectation that they ll get any better. at 17%, which is a number congress has held for a decade, they still have an 80% to 90% retention rate when elections come up. so i don t know who is the biggest loser here. honestly, i think it s the establishment, period, in both parties. i can tell you because i ve been hearing from republicans all night and all morning, they feel better about this now. they like what their positioning is now. they think the framing of this by saying that democrats are choosing the d.r.e.a.m.ers, choosing people brought here illegally over the c.h.i.p. kids, over the military again, there s flaws with that argument. they feel like they positioned this as well as they can. we ll see. the other way to look at this, what salina was saying, when it s a big mess, who do you blame? jennifer ruben, no fan writes if
republicans actually have a strong hand to play. what the democrats did, over the last 24 hours, is reveal their priorities. they are putting the undocumented immigrants, the daca people, as a priority over the c.h.i.p. kids. there is 9 million u.s. citizen c.h.i.p. kids. they are shutting down the government over the daca issue. so, if i m a red state democrat, and i got to go home and explain that, i don t know how i m going to do it. and the republicans are setting back and letting them do it. back in 2013, when the government shut down, the republicans had a terrible hand to play, this time around it is much better cards on the draw. all right, joe trippi, scott jennings just said that, and during this broadcast, i ve been getting text messages from a republican campaign insider who says, if you asked me 24 hours ago, i would say a shutdown would be apocalyptic for republican house members, but i feel confident we can win this now. that s from a republican