and he fought it. playing the part of senator cruz in 2018 is senator schumer, here is a bill, nothing of which i object to but i m going to close down the government. i think it will give me leverage to get something over here, which i also want. i have no problem with this bill. everything in it is fine. i do want to close down the government. that s being done. that s what the speaker said. and that s not an accusation. that s simply a fact. if you look back at 2013, he was not speaker then, but paul ryan was not excited. he was not in the camp of those of senator cruz. playing the part of senator cruz, who wanted to shut down the government, he is being very consistent and thinks there s a way to get through this problem but the start is to keep the government funded. and the real problem right now, a lot of the parts of government, and they re necessary, as you heard director mulvaney. he is doing some things to make sure that areas like cdc and others are getting enough funding t
harmful impact. director mulvaney will go through the impacts more specifically at 10:30 this morning. sandra: if you could give us more details on that. you and the white house in general have been saying we can t let it get to this point. we re at this point now. if there is a government shutdown and a deal wasn t able to get done to avoid that, what happens while the government is shut down? what sort of deal making? what s the process look like while it s closed? there are certain essential workers who will continue to work and negotiate if we reach that point. i think there is a lot of inconveniences. one thing this administration decided we won t politicize this the way the obama administration did in 2013. we will look to keep parks open and things that are necessary to the american people. but nonetheless i think that those who are most hurt are the troops. the reality is on the national security front the continuing resolutions harm the planning. secretary mattis has said
september 30th. we re now in mid-january. it is frustrating to all of us that we re in this position. what s unclear is what is it the democrats are asking in order to get out of a shutdown? it seems they are hell bent on getting to a shutdown. we are anxious to make sure our troops and those serving on the front lines of our country continue to get paid. mark? mr. mulvaney? mark? so, mark, a couple things on that. we know what the democrats are asking for, they want a deal on daca. the president, on the other hand, tweeted last year that our country needs a good shutdown. isn t he getting exactly what he asked for? and it was the president, as i m sure you know, the last time we had a government shutdown, who said it is the president s responsibility to lead. he needs to get the players in the room. he needs to lead. how is he going to lead on this? couple points there. one, the president was very active yesterday in bringing together the house votes to get 230 votes. he was
peter alexander was in the briefing room a few moments ago when mick mulvaney and mark short were briefing reporters about what s going on with the shutdown. he joins us now. peter, fyi, i understand the president was scheduled to go to mar-a-lago and isn t going now. what is he waiting for? reporter: we heard from the white house in the last 20 minutes or so, they declared the president will not be traveling to mar-a-lago this weekend. he was scheduled to travel this afternoon. those would not have been good optics for the white house. i spoke with officials earlier and initially, they were discussing whether he would go. then it was unlikely. now it is official, he will not go. it is notable tomorrow, he was intended would be hosting what was to be a one-year anniversary gala at his florida estate. mar-a-lago, the property there. $100,000 per couple. that s where tickets were starting. a senior adviser of the president said to me, there is
this i think this is kabuki theater. if you look at the markets, the markets are barely reacting to this. the markets are up, believe it or not. they re up. the market s look at this as jut annoys. noise. the average american isn t paying attention to it. it is massively political. both sides are taking sides. at the end of the day, for the good of the country, i don t think anyone wants to see this happen. i maintain, ali, and i say this somewhat tongue and cheek, but for those who i ve spoken to, whether inside the white house or whose who know president trump well from years of business, this is classic president trump. mulvaney and short did a press conference now. they ll do another one later. we re hearing mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. president trump continues to drop a bomb here and a bomb there. i will president trump likes the attention. he loves the drama of all of this. it would be stunning for him to be able to, at the end of the day, offer something to one