Wall. Mexico will pay for the wall. I think theyll end up being happy to do so. The wall just got 10 feet higher. We love it. We are going to build the wall. It will be a real wall. A real wall. Who is going to pay for the wall . Mexico. Who . Mexico. The back and forth between boss and top kick on the president S Immigration position has not help Congressional Republicans get any closer to a deal that would solve the daca problem and keep the government opened. If no deal is reached there will be a shutdown of the government tomorrow at midnight. Casey hunt on capitol hill gives us the update. I did talk about baby food because this Chief Of Staff talks about the president as this Cartoon Character that has to be made into a person by
language about haiti and africa. So what you have now is a Democratic Party thats bg been given a rational for this potential shutdown, the brew ha over the last week has energized their base and made it easier for democrats to say we cant work with this
do not go gentle into that good night. we re back with the hardball roundtable. kimberly, tell me something i don t know. well, on track to change the way that sexual harassment is reported against members of congress. they introduced a bill, that has support that not only will get
be. let s bring in, kimberly at kins, howard and and dave gem betty. i want to talk to howard, i think we agree on something off the bat. i thought trump s speech today was a barn burner. i never heard him give a better speech. for whatever reason he rose to the occasion. i know it was home court. i think if he behaves like that, the democrats are going to need a powerful candidate. i think, chris, there is a big blue wave or wind blowing in 18. . in 18 but if he s going to get through it, it s going to have to be with speeches he gave. he talked about his calling card, the economy, and he didn t create all of this, barack obama deserves some of the credit.
understaffed and underexperienced trump s administration. last night, there was a little known special election for a state senate seat in rural wisconsin. oh, we know. well known here. well known here. what i want to say, there have been 34 state legislative seats now since november 2016 that have flipped from republican to democrat over the last year. and you have which tells you? which tells us that there s something build. a wave. i don t know if it s that wave yet, but scott walker himself was saying, it s time to sound the alarm. every president since 18 tv, it s been an arnl average of 32s lost by the president s party. looks like the democrats could win back the house. thank you, kimberly atkins, howard fineman, dave bedenebeti. when we return, let me finish with trump watch.
have difficulty reconciling the difference between the tweets and the person they work with every day. but you are universal, everybody needs to say, they need to stop tweeting, from his supporters to some of his closest lodge-time friends. kimberly, i think the president is scheduled to come back to washington sunday night. which is light years and many dozen itself of tweets from now. but he comes back to washington to what, exactly. reporter: well, it s a tense time. i mean between still trying to find an elusive legislative accomplishment in the form of this tax bill to the ongoing probe by robert mueller to the fact that sexual harassment has essentially taken over the u.s. capital as one allegation against a law maker comes after another and that, of course, reminds everyone of the