infrastructure plan. we want t everyday americans, strengthen the affordable care ability. a trillion dollar infrastructure plan, it will create 16 million good paying jobs republicans, democrats, even the president has supported the notion that we have to fix our broken infrastructure. you didn t quite answer the question you haven t decided whether that will be a rule or not. we have not had that discussion in caucus we have discussed proceeding in a strongly bipartisan way on issues of importance to the american people. i want to have you see if you can respond to something that speaker pelosi said in response to the roger stone indictment. take a listen. excuse me, let me put it on screen in the face of 37 indictments, the president continued actions to undermine the special counsel investigation raised the question, what does putin have rhetorically on the president politically, financially? she asked that rhetorically. at what point do you think it s appropriate to begin th
there s missed opportunities in all this we could have had an extension of tps, a huge issue for people here in florida, the haitian community. we could have had a three-week extension for nicaragua three year extension, i m sorry, on that daca, three years of certainty it s better than what they face right now, which is a waiting for a court ruling and what the administration is going to do. hopefully, over the next three weeks, some of the elements can become part of what we do. most important of all, i truly believe that if the president can get strong border security that satisfies his what he wants, it unlocks the opportunity to do other things on immigration that we need, like figure out something reasonable with the people that are not criminals. that have been here a long time. but we ve got to unlock that it begins with border security that s one of the reasons why i think it s so important that we get something done that he s satisfied with so we can move on to the other
pelosi is strong because she got status quo that s not what the country wants. the country wants to find common ground the president made four different offers it was speaker pelosi said, i won t talk about anything. we have 35 days of speaker pelosi not negotiating the president finally said, this is too much. if you say you will do something else, i will open it up so the federal workers will be paid let s see where you will go in three weeks. that was her stance she will negotiate after you open the government. no. her stance was not $1 for a wall we re not going to do anything, it s immoral i don t believe that s where her members are as well. if you listen to her own chair of agriculture said give trump the money. her chairman of armed services says walls work. even her number two says, walls are not immoral. she s out of step with her own base in three weeks, the president is unlikely to do you really believe you are going to get a compromise that democrats will trade som
building. i think that s an incredible moment. it also is an example of how people were feeling i think all over the country. there were so many stories of families really trying to cobble together their last penny. you had this increasing feeling that the people that were part of the administration, including billionaire cabinet members, they didn t understand what were going on. wilbur ross statements that he didn t understand why federal workers would go to food pantries i think really took the air out of a lot of people s lungs. there s been a growing gap between the rich and the poor in this country for a long time. it was really on display in that moment. i think him losing it on the senate floor was really a lot of americans saying, we can t take this anymore. i think it speaks to the fact that no one wins in a government shutdown. yes, everyone is saying the analysis is that the president caved and pelosi showed how strong she was. that s the politics. the american people
i think it would only be fair to understand that if it takes 60 votes in the senate, there s probably blame on both sides. let s talk about this in three weeks, when i think you guys pass something that keeps the government open i m getting you guys don t have you don t want to you go through another government shutdown. a bunch of senators want to make it impossible to shut down the e government, senator warren has a bill never to cancel a paycheck again for a non-political appointee. will you support something like that i will go further you want to know how you will never have a shutdown again? let s not pay the members of congress and senate. that s the mark warner bill and the white house, right and all political staff. that s the bill that s the amendment i would offer. this only harms others think about this the president offered four different reasonable offers. speaker pelosi, then leader, has the record for the longest speech top the floor more than eight hours. a