bill. it is inherently difficult. trump blew up the agreement earlier in the week. he could have had a broader agreement, i think a real achievement earlier in the week. he undermined his own allies in congress. they don t didn t know why he did that. there was no strategy involved other than watching fox and reacting evidently. and so he could be rational in this moment. but he hasn t been before. jennifer. so where to start. so the i think the people who blink today, trump is the one who got nervous and he did two things very telling. one, canceled mar-a-largo. postponed. that is a very conventional thing to do. donald trump normally says i play by my own rules an when donald trump goes conventional, they are getting nervous. and there is no way you could not be in washington. that is a political suicide. and it is the kind of thing
his as vdvisory counsel are resigning. i know one did resign. not on this you are y alarea. they re making donald trump has this affect on people around him. he lowers standards. people abandon their views. you know, a lot of these evangelical leaders have argued for family values for decades. that s been their main argument and now they can t even find their voice. it s interesting, jennifer, i do find that although donald trump isn t getting punished, but when another republican commits a mortality problem this year, they have been quick to throw him out. the congressman that was forced to resign in western pennsylvania, they re doing a special election because he made his mistress get an abortion, and how about the governor of missouri where you have republican lawmakers calling for his reservation. for some reason they re just
from the top. the president is the leader and he has to get efb in a room and lead. welcome back. kimberly atkins from the boston harold, michael gur sten and jennifer lommary. and has been involved in a shutdown or two. so know shutdown politics well. kimberly, it does appear as if we re waiting to see how schumer s responding to whatever happened in the white house meeting. there is is there c.h.i.p. included or not, is it shortening it to three weeks. five days is off the table. but something is afoot. we just don t know the details. yes. something is afoot and it makes sense because regardless at the end of the day, shutdowns are terrible, they are unpopular. and parties on both sides will get blames but i think in this case the republicans about bear the brunt of it. but what you said, the important thing is this rests with the
president. this is why chuck schumer went to the white house and why members of congress who have been saying out loud, including mitch mcconnell, well if we knew what the president wanted, we could put something on the floor. i think that is really incredible so i think the onus is on president trump to come forward and move this needle one way or another. michael and jennifer, you have both been in the brinksmanship moments and shutdowns happen when both sides think they could win an argument and shutdowns are averted when both sides want an exit ramp for different reasons. this morning it looks like both sides they could win in the argument and now for different reasons there is exit ramp looking. i think chuck schumer would like a red state exit ramp and i think president trump wants to celebrate his one year anniversary in mar-a-largo. i think that could be. and you get shutdowns when both sides think they could win. there are questions on both sides in this case. the democr