as chief of staff is important here. they are saying, look, mr. president, you have to remember, you care about x, y, and z. you can t forget all of that together. let s hold out. the more we hold out by the way, the more there is a split between the president and his hardline staff, maybe he gets a better deal in the end. democrats are already moving on this idea of giving more wall funding in order to take care of the d.r.e.a.m.ers. what are the optics of the president giving the state of the union address s. assume this doesn t get sorted. with the government potentially still shut down. a president four years ago said during the 2013 shutdown, obama has to get on this. it s all up to him. the president has been everywhere on every issue and there is a trump tweet for everything. what he said during 2013, what everyone in the current negotiations said is all being
president saying they re trying to shut down the trump economy. one thing we don t see, though, in the tweet from the press secretary, don, is any mention of the republicans who also voted against this plan. the republicans, including senator lindsey graham and a few others, who also do not believe this is the way that business should be conducted in washington here. but we are getting a sense, as phil was saying, you know, to look for those signs from this president, we are getting a sense at least from his advisers what they re going to do. go after the democrats. but when the sun comes up here in washington, and i expect it will tomorrow again, what is the strategy here because they do need to craft some kind of a deal here. so the #schumershutdown was something we heard about 12 hours or so ago, and then senator schumer came over for a meeting. that seemed to go fairly well at least by those standards, but obviously nothing came of it. but digging their heels in the sand here. part
release a tweet. we know that he does at any time, whenever he wants to, and there could be a paper statement. but we will not hear from the president tonight in person. salena zito, i want to bring you back in here because we re following this closely. people who are tuned in, zoned in, really interested in politics following this closely. i think many americans maybe more so following because they re concerned about their government being shut down. how much do you think how closely do you think the average person, especially republican and trump supporter, how closely are they paying attention to this? it s friday night. they might be coming home for a kid s basketball game, or they went out to a movie or binge watching a show on netflix. or binge watching cnn tonight abowith don lemon. of course. that goes without saying, right? that does not say that people aren t interested and they re not paying attention to this. of course they are. this is part of their lives. this i
yeah, that s how we got here in the first place. right. i think everyone was happily on track to avoid this, and then trump tweeting and those kinds of comments because he doesn t really understand how these things work, and he doesn t really care about how republicans look. he cares how he looks. so agreed. in this instance, this is what s making it so challenging. you saw mitch mcconnell say, look, let us know what you want because we don t know what you want. president, let us know, because they can t function this way if they don t know where the president stands. so that part is fair. democrats everyone knows you need 60 votes. democrats are the ones saying, hey, we want daca, and we want it now. and the republicans are saying, well, we can fund children s health insurance, the military, and the government and things that are fiscally imminent that need to be fixed now, and let s do that. and then we can continue to negotiate. i think that s solid messaging. it s tough
they said that he will not be speaking tonight. maybe there will be a paper statement. maybe a tweet. we don t know. but i m sure the american people would like to know from their leader what s going on. how does he stand on this? let s bring in hey, don. is that scott? go ahead, scott. i just wanted to respond to brian real quick on the president. brian said they won t accept a three-week deal. they don t want this deal that s currently on the floor that passed the house by a big margin. the only thing they will accept according to brian is to stick a daca fix in there, whatever that looks like. i m not aware of the legislative language it would be. let s just pretend there is a document floating around. so that s the only thing they will accept. otherwise, it is permanent shutdown. it is indefinite shutdown. what is there to negotiate? what would you have the president do if the only thing the democrats will accept is this one thing and nothing else? there is no negotiation.