mcconnell, this is your fault. mcconnell, are you suggesting i m enjoying this snapping back. what do you think the mind set of that senate republican caucus particularly the people up in 2020 is? it s trump derangement syndrome within the caucus itself where you want those to hold the line and support the president versus those who recognize a couple things, one, they are up for reelections in states that will be difficult for the senate republicans to keep two, they are hearing from cot spin w constituencies and had family members call them up and say what are you doing that pressured mcconnell which is why he let members go where they wanted to go and signaling to the white house, okay, this is as far as we can go we can t go further. going back to the conversation about caving, you know, whenever the president is using that
i believe, the roosevelt room, the point is because he wants to reassure activists and allies in the room he would not cave in fact, according to people in the room, he used the word caved repeatedly to say this was something he would not do. and he said things like he has the backing of people like rush limbaugh who repeatedly have told him and urged him not to cave on this and joked it was quote another day in paradise. flash forward two days from that quote, another day in paradise, and the president did what can only be described even the post generous of terms as a political cave so this is where we re at and what the president is going to be watching in terms of cable news coverage and newspaper coverage for the next many days. oh, yeah. if you re watching, mr. president, you ve lost badly michael, can you imagine how angry republican senators are, particularly there is this amazing behind the scenes washington post piece about the private luncheon yesterday where ron johnson
well and today you had roger stone. these people go back decades with the president and know the president better than almost anyone indeed i would say better than his wife, which i guess isn t saying that much but i guess there is something pretty dramatic that the innercircle of trump advisors, many pled guilty what s your reaction if there are people who say in bad faith. let s assume good faith. look, it s been two years of mueller. sure you ve got all these indictments. yes, you re surrounded by crooks of various types and a lot of lying, a lot of evidence of shady financial dealings you don t have collusion yet what s the deal? i think that kutsz tcuts ther way. i m not sure if any other president, including nixon who surrounded himself with so many
his tv taken away and now he s ready to negotiate. i ll note the labor actions that slowed down eastern seaboard air travel was part of the camel s we know how important tv is to him. that is absolutely true it was really important stick in this the president tweeting tonight and it s really a very funny tweet so i want to read it i wish people would read or listen to my words on the boarder wall this was in no way a concession but taking care of millions of people getting badly hurt with the shutdown in 21 days, if no deal is done, it s off to the races. does the white house understand they got their butt kick snd. in a very private and personal level they do by evidence of that tweet it seems so does the president of the united states himself. look, on wednesday, one of the meetings that president trump had in the white house that i reported on that included gathering roughly 20 conservative allies and activists in there with him in,
government shutdown for a border wall he promised mexico would pay for. in the face of opposition and beginnings of what looked to be a full-scale uprising, the president and his party agreeing to reopen the government without wall funding. calling this a deal is kind of like calling the treat ea of versailles a deal between allies. and hundreds of thousands oferal work withers will be able to go back to work and collect back pay. not true for contractors. that s so for the fbi who showed up to arrest the oldestice and closest president s friend to hall him away in handcuffs. they indicted him on