clinton s 2016 campaign, and leon wolfe, managing editor of the blaze. benji sarly my colleague made the point today that usually shutdowns are this annoying blame game but it s refreshing to have the president just come out and say, he also tweeted over the weekend, he basically wants a shutdown. he will be responsible for a shutdown. yes. absolutely. and i think it s clear he doesn t understand how shutdowns work. he also doesn t understand how the optics of a shutdown are supposed to work in washington which is kind of fun. it seems like he is hellbent on sticking the republican party with something just awful right before the mid-terms. it s like we had the putin meeting. he was going to bring putin to the white house just as we re all going to go vote in the mid-terms and remind everybody that he s beholden to a russian dictator. and then that got scrapped and we re going to do that next year instead maybe. now he wants to shut down the government over border wall funding, whi
he clearly basically thinks the president is an idiot when it comes to this stuff specifically and he s going to run his chaim befr how he runs his chamber. and that only goes so far. but i think for the most part mcconnell has been he s been death on shutdowns for a long, long time. and i would argue look and i m not in favor of the wall, but i would say, look, the last two shutdowns we had were in 2009 and 2013. the 2010 mid-terms and the 2014 mid-terms didn t turn out so terrible for the gop. i think he s more scared of a shutdown than is actually merited. now, that having been said, i do think that for the most part the senate is going to ultimately follow what mcconnell wants to do, at least those who are not up for re-election or have primaries coming up. timing here is important. i think a shutdown right before the mid-terms which we haven t had in a while a small one last year which lasted about a weekend. is very different. but i m with you in the sense of bring it t
comes to this stuff specifically and he s going to run his chamber how he runs his chamber. and that only goes so far. but i think for the most part mcconnell has been he s been death on shutdowns for a long, long time. and i would argue look and i m not in favor of the wall, but i would say, look, the last two shutdowns we had were in 2009 and 2013. the 2010 mid-terms and the 2014 mid-terms didn t turn out so terrible for the gop. i think he s more scared of a shutdown than is actually merited. now, that having been said, i do think that for the most part the senate is going to ultimately follow what mcconnell wants to do, at least those who are not up for re-election or have primaries coming up. timing here is important. i think a shutdown right before the mid-terms which we haven t had in a while a small one last year which lasted about a weekend. is very different. but i m with you in the sense of bring it to a head. have a referendum on what the fight s about that voters
benji sarly my colleague made the point today that usually shutdowns are this annoying blame game but it s refreshing to have the president just come out and say, he also tweeted over the weekend, he basically wants a shutdown. he will be responsible for a shutdown. yes. absolutely. and i think it s clear he doesn t understand how shutdowns work. he also doesn t understand how the optics of a shutdown are supposed to work in washington which is kind of fun. it seems like he is hellbent on sticking the republican party with something just awful right before the mid-terms. it s like we had the putin meeting. he was going to bring putin to the white house just as we re all going to go vote in the mid-terms and remind everybody that he s beholden to a russian dictator. and then that got scrapped and we re going to do that next year instead maybe. now he wants to shut down the government over border wall funding, which is just going to remind everybody what donald trump is doing at the bo
but i would be certainly willing to consider a shutdown if we don t get proper border security. thank you. the president today the president follows through on the threat he just issued, the federal government fully controlled by republicans could shut down just about a month before the midterm elections. which to be clear is the last thing the republican leadership in congress wants. we know that because paul ryan and mitch mcconnell met with the president last week to pitch him on a plan to avoid a government shutdown. by delaying a fight over border wall funding until after the election. but now the president s threats of a shutdown appear to fly in the face of any deal republican leaders might have thought they had. homeland security won t get funded before the mid-terms. probably not. so you re not worried about a government shutdown before the mid-terms. no, that s not going to happen. that s not going to happen. to talk more about what the president is doing here i