time around. which really only leaves the national emergency option, which then i assume would be stuck in court for some period of time. i don t think anything politically good has come of this, the only thing you can t get more of in politics is time. we lost a month of time in this presidency at a critical period. we lost time and the nation lost a lot of money as well. reopening the government should eliminate at least the justification most democrats have given for refusing to negotiate on the wall funding or immigration. does this force democrats to negotia negotiate? well, democrats have been willing to negotiate, they weren t going to negotiate when the government was shut down. when you are in a negotiation, and you have two sides that completely will not move, you have to move to a higher level. you have to say what s the purpose of the wall? well, the purpose is, border security. do you think that there is a
down. steve: today is day 35. the two proposals yesterday, one would have given the president $5.7 billion to build the wall and whatnot. the other one would simply have reopened. neither of them got to the 60 vote measure. and then a new plan was floated later in the day where it simply was to reopen the government for three weeks. but the president said you know what? i m going to need a big down payment on that wall and nancy pelosi said what the heck is he talking about? and that s a nonstarter. so right now we are back to square one on the 35th day of the partial government shutdown. ainsley: white house is now considering that emergency option. mercedes schlapp was interviewed yesterday and said that is a consideration. she and kellyanne conway have said the president did not want to do that but he might have. to say that might be the last straw. ed: absolutely. it s interesting. because we had talked a couple weeks ago about how the president had this option in his pocket. he ha
that s why some of us think that they are searching for an off ramp. but i was also struck, brian, in the president s comments when he decried liberal judicial court rulings that if he goes ahead with this emergency option to try to get this wall built, he ll be running headlong into another sort of hail of legal writs with people trying to block him again and whether that will actually help him make any progress on building any kind of a physical barrier along the border i m very doubtful. he might do better, even if that in that department, by trying to cut a deal here rather than trying to assert his own power to do this on his own. tough as it is to avoid a good juicy shiny object for the news media to look at. jon allen, jill colvin, josh gerstein, thanks for starting off our first friday broadcast of the new year. coming up for us, what the president just said about russia, it s the kind of thing you only hear from senior russians, one of them named putin, eager to rewrite hi
interesting that the white house wants the message out now that they re working on resolving this shutdown. it seemed like early on the president was willing to just sit there and project this image of him sitting alone in the oval office waiting for the democrats to call. there s now clearly a more forward lean to what the white house is doing to at least create an impression that there s progress and i think that s why some of us think that they are searching for an off ramp. but i was also struck, brian, in the president s comments when he decried liberal judicial court rulings that if he goes ahead with this emergency option to try to get this wall built, he ll be running headlong into another sort of hail of legal ritz with people trying to block him again and whether that will actually help him make any progress on building any kind of a physical barrier along the border i m very doubtful. he might do better, even if that department, by trying to cut a deal here rather than tryin
of him sitting alone in the oval office waiting for the democrats to call. there s now clearly a more forward lean to what the white house is doing to at least create an impression that there s progress and i think that s why some of us think that they are searching for an off ramp. but i was also struck, brian, in the president s comments when he decried liberal judicial court rulings that if he goes ahead with this emergency option to try to get this wall built, he ll be running headlong into another sort of hail of legal ritz with people trying to block him again and whether that will actually help him make any progress on building any kind of a physical barrier along the border i m very doubtful. he might do better, even in that department, by trying to cut a deal here rather than trying to assert his own power to do this on his own. tough as it is to avoid a good juicy shiny object for the news media to look at. to john allen, jill colvin, josh gerstein, our thanks for