you re home. warner is home. hundreds of thousands of americans are not getting their paycheck. republicans did have unified control of the federal government for the past few years and did not pass any major immigration reform or wall funding. our new cnn poll out this morning shows most americans are putting the blame for the shutdown on president trump. if this is so important and so needed, why didn t republicans in the house and senate pass wall funding at any point in the last two years? because we have a majority in the senate but don t control it. we need democrats to work with us. and have democrats stop being hypocritical and put their money where their mouth is and fund better barriers. they work. they supported and vote forward about $8 billion of better barrier funding in the 2013 immigration reform. $40 billion in total in terms of border security. this is a growing problem. in 2012, a little over 11,000 people came in this country as family units. last year, it was 107
needed, why didn t republicans in the house and senate pass wall funding at any point in the last two years? because we have a majority in the senate but don t control it. we need democrats to work with us. and have democrats stop being hypocritical and put their money where their mouth is and fund better barriers. they work. they supported and vote forward about $8 billion of better barrier funding in the 2013 immigration reform. $40 billion in total in terms of border security. this is a growing problem. in 2012, a little over 11,000 people came in this country as family units. last year, it was 107,000 people coming in as a family unit. in the first three months of this fiscal year, 75,000 people. this was all sparked by daca. even the obama administration realized we had to deter this. it s a growing problem. it s not going away. it s getting bigger and bigger. democrats continue to minimize this. we need barriers as the first
but it s a winning trope for him. s.c., what we re hearing here at the table is this is just about racism. well, there s certainly some of that underpinning this, but the president, let s be real clear, the president lost. he lost this issue. he lost it last year politically because he wanted to tweet and rally more than he wanted to govern, he lost his opportunity when he had republicans who would help him get this on to his desk and he s losing now. and you know he s losing because they re doing the spaghetti on the wall trick, let s see what sticks. well, maybe we will declare a national emergency, well, let s float the idea of using hurricane relief money to fund this. let s see what will work. and nothing has worked. the democrats are not coming to the table, they re not seeing religion, well, we have to give them a wall. they don t have to. that might change, again, public polling might change on this and push them back to the table, but as it stands right now the
how we got here will say, doesn t matter. you all are in charge. we re blaming the lot of you. and we re not there yet. right now, i think the american people clearly put the onus on the president. but i think we ll get sick of this game of chicken. and it will determine when and if democrats decide, okay, we re going to come to the table or if they decide we don t have any incentive to. but, hold on. democrats have come to the table. and even last week we had a reporting that showed that republicans before the shutdown happened, they passed a spending bill thinking we ve got a deal. they thought this week there was going to be a deal that included daca, and it turned out that wasn t happening. part of the problem here is that trump has a record of being so indecisive, such a bad negotiator, kind of all over the map, that his own people are saying they re not sure what he wants to do. so mcconnell is sitting back saying, i m not doing anything until i know what the president is going
start to bite, as in the condition of this russian aluminum company, what we see instead of, let s keep the pressure on, and i know there s concerns from our european allies about these sanctions. instead the treasury department dreams up this series of actions where you take a company that was completely founded by deripaska, where he placed all the management team in place and they have a scheme to try to take his ownership level down from 70% to roughly 40%, 45%. jake, i ve been in business longer than politics. if i ve still got my whole management team in there and i m still the largest shareholder at 40% or 45%, i m going to still control that company. that is why i, and i know a number of members, i think democrats and republicans, will vote to override this week the removal of these sanctions. this is the worst time, as more and more of this information comes out about ties between trump and trump officials and