when you look at the trump presidency when it comes to be written as history as much will be written about the networks and structures of power as about his personality. maria: you make so many important points and another one we should mention is isis almost defeated because he changed the strategy and yet not talked about. but this press conference this past week with his medical doctor was beyond. got all of the attention. maria: but the questions that were coming from the journalists , i just to me it s a strange parallel universe that many journalists in habit and i think it goes back to the fact that they were so wrong about the election. remember they overwhelmingly predicted a victory and they were prepared for a clinton victory and when you re wrong there s a temptation to kind of reconstruct reality to try to validate your position i ve seen this done by some academics too but you know we have to live in the reality created by trump s victory. i don t defend everything
the continuing resolution had all of the things that had been articulated and it didn t actually have the rates of the military that so many of us desperately wanted so in many ways you re saying okay, what other sweeteners were we supposed to have in this one- month continuing resolution, in many ways the left and the republicans we sort of came together and gave what was rational, so you re sort of negotiating with yourself here and it s a serial-type negotiation for those who wanted the daca on the left side there s not a daca bill, so this is theatre. maria: wow you make a lot of important and interesting points congressman. when will you get to daca then? oh, we ve been actually working on daca for months and months. there s a lot of us particularly being from a border state know we have to work out a solution on daca but actually want to see a more holistic approach dealing with an immigration system that maximizes economic expansion and fairness and our current
faith immigration reform and unfortunately, if you ve got the press in your pocket if you look at how republicans were route the in november in january they just won a state senate seat in wisconsin they think that this policy of just resisting everything that trump does is to their advantage and you know, we ll see if they re right. maria: i don t think so. let s look at the facts in terms of what this means for the military. military is 50% of its aircraft are down for maintenance because of lack of spare parts. pilots are flying less than half of the flying hours required to maintain proficiency only five of the army s 58 brigades are ready for combat and at the end of the day it looks like every service chief has told the congress that the u.s. military is at risk in winning at high- end conflicts, ed? with two major destroyers destroyed the fitzgerald and mccain. 17 men killed because they were not certified. the manpower is stretched so thin that they basically can t function e
maria: mary kissel ed rollins thank you so much. that will do it for us sunday morning futures thanks for being with me i m maria bartiromo tomorrow mornings with maria live from davos, switzerland the rest of the week join us on the fox business network, here is mediabuzz on fox business. ..
maria: so that s what you re counting on the american people understanding the issues here that in fact this is not about policy, that they wanted everything that s in this bill anyway and yet they still don t want to come to the table because they really do want to just obstruct. do you think the american people will figure that out? i think it may take a couple layers but if you were actually to look at my e-mails last night , even folks who were not thrilled with those who were on the more conservative side were just engaged of the delay of a six-year extension on the chip, the children s poor children s healthcare, and i don t know how long the left, the democrat liberals can sustain that unless the pandering to their base is so important they re willing to basically burn the place down. maria: are you willing to give on anything? is your side willing to give, how long are you going to dig in well look it s really an interesting question. what are we supposed to give?