house. is nancy pelosi pass the opportunity to put price control on pharmaceutical drugs? it would be remarkable if she doesn t want to do that. with a pass on the ability to give amnesty to the dreamers? for a little bit of border security? i think americans want some sort of compromise but i ve got to tell you between 2018 and 2020, if both sides going into this closing argument of immigration health care and they both do okay in the republicans keep the senate and republicans republicans keep the senate and democrats take the house. what do you think people will run on in 2020? tucker: probably trump. nothing will get solved, it will be immigration and health care.ha tucker: great to see you and thanks for that window into the future. president trump trying to alter america s asylum policies to slow down illegal immigration. 22 million peopleam here illegay as of tonight.ga just a quarter-century ago,
that s why we offered secretary matt es his full budget request. something i offered yesterday in the white house to president trump as well. my republican friends know we have to stop these crs and it s time to do a budget and fully fund our military. we can t forget about urgent domestic priorities in the budget. but military has to be given the certainty it need. this is one of the main reasons the bipartisan coalition last night rejected the house cr. because of the damage that secretary mattis has said it has done to the military. another reason we rejected it because it was constructed without an ounce of democratic input and i suspect very little input from many republicans in the senate. you have to compromise if you wish to govern. that s how our founding fathers
inclined to accept it and was willing to do a very short-term cr. he suggested tuesday night in order to get the deal finalized. hours later, i got a phone call telling me this is not good enough. first from the president saying, i hear it s three weeks, i said no one told me about that, that s not what we discussed. and then a few hours later, well, we want what you ve offered and four or five more things, which they knew were unpalatable to democrats, but appeased the hard right anti-immigration wing of the republican party. the bottom line is simple, president trump just can t take yes for an answer. he s rejected not one, but two viable bipartisan deals, including one in which i put his most prominent campaign pledge on the table. what s even more frustrating than president trump s intransigence is the way that he
broad area of policies and we voted yes. the democrat demands at that time were for a clean cr. a clean cr. in fact, senator chuck schumer said we need a clean cr. that s what he this wanted, you shouldn t be holding the government hostage to politics, it will create governmental chaos and here we are with senator schumer holding the government hostage to his politics, immigration politics, and creating government chaos. leland: the entire republican party is saying that this is tying false immigration reform deadline to government funding, it s wrong, we ll fix daca later. so, everyone s consistent in that talking point. why don t you think democrats, your colleagues on the other side of the aisle, are owning that? well, i think there s a lot of worry on the other side of the aisle what they ve gotten themselves into. here is the deal. gillian: i have been one of a bipartisan working group trying to find a solution. i very much want to find a solution for dreamers, i m
something i offered yesterday in the white house to president trump as well. my republican friends know we have to stop the cr s and do a budget and fully fund our military. we can t forget about urgent domestic priorities in the budget, but military has to be given the certainty it needs. this is one of the main reasons the bipartisan coalition last night rejected the house cr. because of the damage that secretary mattis has said it has done to the military. another reason we rejected it was because it was constructed without an ounce of democratic input and i suspect very little input from many republicans in the senate. in our democracy, you have to compromise if you wish to govern. that s how our founding fathers designed our government to operate. and yet, time and time again the republican leader believes he can drop legislation on the