president trump says democrats are to blame after a second migrant child died while being held by customs and border control. any deaths on the border are strictly the fault of the democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make a long trip thinking they can enter our country illegally. they can t. if we had a wall, they wouldn t even try. the first reaction to the news of the death of a child in our custody ought to be empathy for the family and, frankly, enormous distress that that happened at all. and instead our president, who apparently lacks any capacity for human empathy, decides to use the death of two children as a political tool. i think it s really yet another new low in a president filled with new lows.
something like this, at this time. next, working through the holidays, trump s mind-set heading into 2019. and as we go to break, the president made quite a stir on the world stage in 2018, chastising allies and embracing two of america s biggest adversaries. i would actually say it worked out for both of us, far better than anybody could have expected. i think far better. we ve been tremendously successful. it s my honor. and we will have a terrific relationship. i have no doubt. my people came to me, dan coates came to me and some others. they said they think it s russia. i have president putin. he just said it s not russia. i will say this. i don t see any reason why it would be. gentle means everything, so we improved everything. we used 50% fewer ingredients added one handed pumps and beat the top safety standards the new johnson s®
from border security, whatever you want to call it, the wall. when it comes to shutdowns, the party that makes the demand usually loses. when democrats shut the government down last year to get a fix for daca and bring certainty for dreamers, whose legal status was suddenly in jeopardy, they got nothing for it. democrats don t feel like they have to give anything to the white house. they are digging in. they re just going to keep doing this. as soon as pelosi takes over on january 3rd, she ll put a bill on the floor and she ll do it over and over again to make a statement to put that pressure on mcconnell. we have to find a way out of this. i think the president knows privately that his leverage is decreasing. i think that s why you re seeing him lash out on twitter. it s tough for him. and pelosi sort of digging at him in usa today, mocking trump s wall. first of all, the fact that he says we re going to build a wall with cement and mexico is going to pay for it, while he has
speaker of the house, the senate majority leader, you made the decisions with the president, in collaboration with the president. he has run all over them that they are afraid to do anything with the president s blessing. even when they get the president s blessing, they re worried that they ll change his mind. they re afraid to make a decision, even though they wanted to avert a shutdown and make a deal with the democrats, they were afraid to do it. democrats have taken over the house and will hold him accountable for anything he says. he is loose with the facts, tries to spin things a little too much, obviously, but the democrats on the hill will have hearing after hearing, very dogged oversight on everything from russia, obstruction, how foreign leaders have stated the trump his finances. exactly. it will be a totally differe ll him. he s already so combative. he will be even more combative. if you can imagine that. looking at coming year, what
away anywhere in a cbp process. we saw this blame game break out with trump s tweets and democrats responding doesn t necessarily, obviously, address the issue at hand, but certainly both sides seem to be engaged in this blame game. yeah. obviously it is pretty stunning. the president s first comments on these deaths, facing a lot of criticisms. it is to deflect blame, to blame democrats. it speaks, in some ways, to his fixation and focus on immigration and the wall, that everything is coming back to that. that s where he is. that s where he keeps returning to, argument he keeps coming back to. it is interesting because we ve seen in the past that at other points in time, images of children and issues around children and children suffering or children s deaths have moved him. in this case that s certainly not happening. i think we ll see what unfolds in the coming weeks, if the