were a governor. you re one of the grown-ups in the senate right now. putting that you just got me in trouble. sorry. sorry about that. putting that, you know, idea that didn t work aside, if you were to go to the president and say, okay, let s make a deal, where do you think there is a deal to be made? or is there one at all? is there any give on border wall funding? well, i think the president s so deeply dug in on the issue, and it s really aren t democrats dug in also? they are, but there s deeper issues here than the wall. this is about are we going to have to do this over and over? if he gets what he wants by holding the government hostage because he s got to sign all appropriations bills and budgets for at least the next two years, this is going to become a tactic. so don t give an inch. i think that s i think that s part of the reason, and i can t speak for the democrats, there has not been a caucus meeting on this. but for me, one of the problems is if the
i m trying to give him cover. right, but he had that opportunity 17 days ago. yeah. and very overtly and in a very big way said he didn t want to take that. so, you re a senator now, you were a governor. you re one of the grown-ups in the senate right now. putting that you just got me in trouble. sorry. sorry about that. putting that, you know, idea that didn t work aside, if you were to go to the president and say, okay, let s make a deal, where do you think there is a deal to be made? or is there one at all? is there any give on border wall funding? well, i think the president s so deeply dug in on the issue, and it s really aren t democrats dug in also? they are, but there s deeper issues here than the wall. this is about are we going to have to do this over and over? if he gets what he wants by holding the government hostage because he s got to sign all appropriations bills and budgets for at least the next two years, this is going to become a tactic. so d
a lot of it is misleading or flatly untrue. so what he will say to create a sense of urgency, i don t know. i think, and everybody s speculating now, one way out of this would be for him to declare a national emergency and say, i can do this without that pesky congress, and we ll go ahead and so we can refund the government, we can start the government back up, and i m going to do it through this national emergency wind up in court. 10usc2808 and wind up in court. at least then he can say, i m continuing the fight, we re going to do this, but we re not going to deal with congress on this. the problem is this is a guy who s never had to answer to anybody. his corporation didn t have a board of directors, i don t think. it was a family-owned corporation. and i don t think he understands the way the government works, and that if you want to do something like this and spend $20 billion, according to the constitution, it s got to come from the congress.
his corporation didn t have a board of directors, i don t think. it was a family-owned corporation. and i don t think he understands the way the government works, and that if you want to do something like this and spend $20 billion, according to the constitution, it s got to come from the congress. and you ve got to persuade them or you have to cajole them or have to whatever. but holding the government hostage so is which is exactly what this is, is not, shouldn t be in the toolkit. is that the only way you see out of this shutdown, him declaring an emergency in order to get cover to then let the government get back to work? the original bill that was in the senate that came out of the appropriations committee unanimously had $1.6 billion in it. it had limitations. he could take that money and say we re going to use that to do border security improvements, and we re going to analyze where the wall would be and then we re going to come back and he could say we ve got over
speech, but because of the reality of what they ve seen from the administration over the last 24 hours and continuing tomorrow when the president comes to capitol hill that signals that the administration is digging in. they re unsettled because they don t see a resolution to this coming at any point at any time soon. democrats have made clear they re not willing to negotiate on border security until the government is re-opened. and the president and his team at the request of republican leaders are making these trips to capitol hill to try and reassure republicans, to try and keep them in line and what i m told, i was told earlier tonight when vice president mike pence was on capitol hill that he said behind closed doors the administration is staying firm. the administration is not budging off of the president s top-line request. the president s top-line position. and as long as that s the case, there s simply no end in sight to this shutdown. in other words, no resolution coming soon