brad blakeman, deputy to george w. bush, great to have you with us. let s talk about poll numbers on the growing interest and embrace of socialism by some. what do you think of it? it is troubling for the democratic party, they have an identity crisis. there was a time that if you call the democrat socialist you were defeating them. now they are angry if you don t, socialist but troubling with their policies are, the new green deal is written on the back of a napkin, nobody seems to know the details of it but they talk in generalities, getting rid of cars and planes, limiting cattle and all kinds of crazy things we know will never get enacted but the differences are stark between what republicans stand for and what democrats stand for in modern times it will help republicans as we move closer to 2020 because we are where the american people are.
is what rush limbaugh says about the national emergency with republicans said they are not down with. if they have to declare a national emergency and go through the courts and have the democrats go to the motions of trying to stop it then all the better, let democrats demonstrate as often as loudly as they can they do not want border security. you know that they will find rush is right. i don t always agree with rush limbaugh but he couldn t be more right here. the president should declare a national emergency because it is and let the democrats argue it is not. talk about why they don t want to secure the border and we do. it is a great issue for 2019-2020. a legitimate national security issue and we would the idiot is republicans not to support donald trump to try to build
was told the final text of the bill is being prepared for release. a lot of republicans and democrats view this is a good thing, some saying is that. one sources this package is leaking oil right now. the clock continues to take. february 15th, the day donald trump said congress must center a border package with the funding for physical barrier or risk another shutdown. no one wants to see a rerun of that movie. the president must not repeat his mistakes of the recent past. donald trump, sign this bill. reporter: democratic a still fox news they are optimistic the bill will pass in the house. judge it for what it is in it but not what is audit. conservatives may turn fellow republicans against the deal. earlier in the week members of a bipartisan negotiating team came up with a plan that would fund
there is no doubt the left would move on after abolishing the electoral abolish to abolishing the u.s. senate. as a republican senator why do we want to see our voting power to the national popular vote? what new york says, the current system represents rural parts of the country. a reasonable argument to say every citizen of the united states should have equal voice in who the president is, that if you live in delaware your vote shouldn t count more than if you live in texas and right now it does. the actual medicine for making that happen i m not an expert on but it is reasonable we should say ask every american who should be a leader and whoever gets most votes win. that is a very reasonable approach. jillian: democracy versus republicans what the founders were trying to do with this. the founders got it right, to protect the smaller states. if we had our druthers i don t
off on a decision about the compromise budget and will reveal until he sees what is in it and lawmakers are rushing to get the legislation through official channels as quickly as possible, still not ready for a vote. the friday midnight deadline looming and lindsey graham is talking with the president about the deal, he joins us with the inside scoop in just minutes. team coverage, digging up details on capitol hill, kristin fisher covering what she s hearing from the white house and that is where we pick up breaking coverage. will donald trump sign this bill and no one seems to know with 100% certainty what he will do? republicans on capitol hill, not even donald trump himself. white house officials say he wants time to review what is in the bill but time is running out. looking for landmines because you could have that. it has been known to happen before 2 people but we have not