i don t think it will. i m prepared and i think i can speak for republicans in the house and republicans in the senate. they feel very strongly about having a safe country, having a border that makes sense. without borders, we don t have a country. i hope it doesn t go on even beyond a few more days. really could open very quickly. could open very quickly. now, when we heard that, trace, immediately a lot of people felt like that may be the headline here. he talked about a weekend working group. three people on his staff, maybe more, others working from the democratic side of the aisle. hoping they will come here again this weekend and continue the conversation. listen to what the speaker said at the stakeout after the meeting about the necessity to get this government operating a again if we re ever going to have this impass come to an end. we recognize on the democratic side that we really
have not heard from him before, they also want border security. a huge concession for trump to make. for him to admit he spent all of 2018 cycle saying democrats want open borders, they want drugs, crime we re going back to the president now at the rose garden. he s taking questions. senator schumer came out and said that the meeting from his point of view and speaker pelosi s was contentious. he said that you said in the meeting, this is him quoting you that the shut down could go on for months or even a year or longer. did you say that? i did. i did say that. absolutely i said that. i don t think it will. i am prepared and i think i can speak for republicans in the house and republicans in the senate. they feel very strongly about having a safe country, having a border that makes sense. without borders, we don t have a country. i hope it doesn t go on even
have a country. i hope it doesn t go on beyond a few more days. the president saying he may declare a national emergency to build the wall without congress. the democrats house speak nancy pelosi is not budging on trump s demands. we can t resolve this until we open up government. we made that very clear to the president. a wall is an immorality. it s not who we are as a nation. we are not doing a wall. does anybody have any doubt that we are not doing a wall? kennedy, you and i have been spicy over this. walls are an immorality do you think that s legitimate? no, i wish people would push her on. that you can have disagreements by border security. but she is in a powerful position now, the speakership. i want to know, what is your
country. i hope it doesn t go on, even beyond a few more days. really could open very quickly. i told them, bring who you want. we have three people. you can ideally bring three, but you can bring six. you can bring nine. you can bring 12. they re going to be working over the weekend. i think it may have been somewhat contentious, but i think it was very productive. i have to say that. and i think he said that, too. what was the productive part, from your point of view, mr. president? did the democrats move at all in your direction on funding of a border barrier? i don t want to get into that. i don t want them to be in a position where they have to justify anything to a lot of the people they have to make happy. we want to save lives. we want children to be safe. the children are being decimated. i m not talking about necessarily children in our country. i m talking about wonderful children that are coming up from other places, whether it s honduras, guatemala, el sa
if the government wants to continue the fight. but for now the temporary restraining order has been granted and ordered to government to return acosta s hard pass. it is a question of how much the white house wants to push this. i think it would make a very interesting supreme court case to see whether the first amendment goes far enough so they can order the white house can decide who gets a press pass and who doesn t. they may say we made our point. the world has seen what acosta did and we ll give him back the press pass. let s hope it doesn t go on much longer. i don t think america has stomach for one side or the other in this issue. this is a trump-appointed judge. emergency stay. it is far from over. not the end of it. but i do think what could be problematic for the administration if they choose to fight it is the aftermath of taking acosta s press pass away.