told by republicans. the white house has told republicans on capitol hill the president will sign off and endorse this deal even those same republicans say, just wait, just wait. we ve been through this before. wait to see what he has to say. i have a follow-up for you on disaster funding but i m going to slow my own roll and wait to hear from the president of the united states myself. thank you very much, phil mattingly. let s have a bigger conversation on what we are about to hear from trump there at the rose garden. with me now david chalian and also nia-malika henderson. how about david, when the president comes out, presumably he will be the one to get to say, i m opening the government, you know. you re welcome. but is this the president caving to democrats? well, if it is as what dana s reporting and what phil just was walking us through described, i don t know how that can be seen by anyone in their right mind as not caving.
saying, look, $5.7 billion. if you think about it, you know, we re willing, as long as we get the $5.7 billion, we re willing to pretty much talk to speaker pelosi about anything. anything is on the table. it s going to be above, below that threshold. they see it as a, you know, this is nothing compared to the 867 billion dollar ad bill that the farm bill that they pass. also, the two bills include a little over $12 billion in disaster funding also. they re a lot of the colleagues i spoke to today who feel like $5.7 billion. let s start talking about this. yeah, go ahead. except that republicans had control over the united states congress of both chambers for two whole years and did nothing about this. and now suddenly, after republicans have lost control of the house, it becomes the crisis. if it was such an emergency, they should have done something
is no, it really didn t. and i feel like the off-ramps that were presented last week to him sort of seemed to be discarded. so there were ideas about taking money from disaster funding. there were ideas about taking money from the army corps of engineers. worried about the hit that trump could take politically and the idea he posed last week about declaring a national emergency has largely been discarded. we re sort of back at square one with no real ideas and the president s also made it very clear that he s sort of the last arbiter of that and he s really undercut other white house staff including his acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, and the vice president when they ve tried to present other options to congressional leaders. congressman, you just said to me during the break, you come from a coast guard state. let s talk about the part of this shutdown that oddly has hit the department of homeland security disproportionately hard. yeah, shutdowns get defined by these very h
let the president throw his tantrums and ignore him. nancy, you reported white house aides over the weekend were in the dark about how the president plans to proceed and if he has an off-ramp in mind, did that change at all today? no, it really didn t. and i feel like the off-ramps that were presented last week to him sort of seemed to be discarded. so there were ideas about taking money from disaster funding. there were ideas about taking money from the army corps of engineers. but trump s outsideply advisers and folks in the white house are very worried about the hit that trump could take politically and even the idea that he posed last week about declaring a national emergency has largely been discarded. we re sort of back at square one with no real ideas and the president s also made it very clear that he s sort of the last arbiter of that and he s really undercut other white house staff including his acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, and the vice president when they ve tri
tantrums and ignore him. nancy, you reported white house aides over the weekend were in the dark about how the president plans to proceed and if he has an off-ramp in mind, did that change at all today? is no, it really didn t. and i feel like the off-ramps that were presented last week to him sort of seemed to be discarded. so there were ideas about taking money from disaster funding. there were ideas about taking many money of corfrom the army corps engineers. worried about the hit that trump could take politically and the idea he posed last week about declaring a national emergency has largely been discarded. we re sort of back at square one with no real ideas and the president s also made it very clear that he s sort of the last arbiter of that and he s really undercut other white house staff including his acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, and the vice president when they ve tried to present other options to congressional leaders. congressman, you just said to