senate after we have made days of good faith negotiations with an offer on the table and their only answer is they will not negotiate until we reopen the government and when the president says if i gave you exactly what you re asking for, would you agree to border security and a wall and they say no, i think the american people deserve better. i think these leaders know the american people deserve better. i can promise the american people. republicans and the house and senate are going to continue to stand firm until we get the resources and the reforms necessary to end the humanitarian crisis on our southern border to end the security crisis on our southern border. then and only then will we end this partial government
president directed us this weekend with senior staff, two meetings with leadership it reflects democrat priorities as well. we continue to hear about the idea and votes tomorrow that the house will take up bills to open portions of the government and the president literally called the question. he said if i opened up the government quickly would you agree to border security and a wall the speaker of the house said no. at that point i think the president thought there was no reason to be talking at this meeting. as we said afterwards is we hope they will come back to the table. i would say to every american looking on that shares our frustration, call your congressman. call your senator. if you think the democrats should be negotiating in good faith to resolve this partial
so options include national emergency. uh-hum. emergency funding from the pentagon that people so closely guard and wouldn t want to give up or actually coming together on some sort of negotiated deal. uh-hum. look, even though he is in transient the democrats the leadership is in transigedent. there are democrats lower in the rank and file trying to come up with a solution. lindsey graham told reporters today that he and other things that they could add to the wall, reforms to the immigration system allowing other other sweeteners. other undocumented immigrants maybe not daca to be able to stay legally, things like that, but if the democratic leadership understands the political imperative that the president sees with the wall
willing to negotiate. he had the vice president here the last two weekends meeting with members, meeting with members of staff, trying to move the ball down the field and get us on a path where we can get a solution and the answer today to the president s question and that is exactly how it was phrased and that is, speaker pelosi, if i were to open up the government today, 30 days from now, would you support any funding for border security, for a wall? and she said no. i think the president clearly interpreted that as he rightly should have as clear evidence the democrats have no interest right now in trying to solve this problem. they clearly want the political issue. mr. vice president? where do you go from here? first of all, i thought the president was very calm in trying to continue to put different options on the table to solve this serious crisis at our border. last night he laid out some of the problems and challenges that we re facing as a country and
then we have nothing to discuss and he just walked out. again, we saw a temper tantrum because he couldn t get his way and he just walked out of the meeting. i asked him to open up the government. that tomorrow so many people will have trouble paying their mortgages, paying their bills, dealing with situations when they don t get paid and i said, just why won t you do that, will continue to discuss, we re willing to discuss anything and he said, if i open up the government, you won t do what i want. that s cruel. that s callous and that s using millions of innocent people as sort of pawns and it was wrong and then a few minutes later, he sort of slammed the table and when leader pelosi said she didn t greatly with the wall, he just walked out and said, we have nothing to discuss. so he said it was a waste of his