jon meacham, i want to start with you for the historical framing of this particular oval office address. i ve already reported that it was used as a fund-raising event both before and after for the trump campaign. but also, this is the first time i ve seen an address from the oval office requesting the preemption of entertainment programming on the broadcast networks for a president to simply announce his negotiationing position in a legislative struggle with congress in which there is a bipartisan support for the opposite president frosition fr president s position. this is both a campaign event and simply an announcement of normal kind of legislative interaction that the president used this time for. how many times, lawrence, has something been the first time you ve seen something in the past two years or so? there are a couple of thoughts here. one is, basically, it seems to
framing of this particular oval office address. i ve already reported that it was used as a fund-raising event both before and after for the trump campaign. but also, this is the first time i ve seen an address from the oval office requesting the preemption of entertainment programming on the broadcast networks for a president to simply announce his negotiationing position in a legislative struggle with congress in which there is a bipartisan support for the opposite position from the president s position. this is both a campaign event and simply an announcement of normal kind of legislative interaction that the president used this time for. how many times, lawrence, has something been the first time you ve seen something in the past two years or so? there are a couple of thoughts here. one is, basically, it seems to me both the president and to
i ve already reported that it was used as a fund-raising event both before and after for the trump campaign. but also, this is the first time i ve seen an address from the oval office requesting the preemption of entertainment programming on the broadcast networks for a president to simply announce his negotiationing position in a legislative struggle with congress in which there is a bipartisan support for the opposite position from the president s position. this is both a campaign event and simply an announcement of normal kind of legislative interaction that the president used this time for. how many times, lawrence, has something been the first time you ve seen something in the past two years or so? there are a couple of thoughts here. one is, basically, it seems to me both the president and to some extent the democrats in
let s go first to doug mcelway covering on the partial shutdown. s live from the rotunda on capitol hill. what s the latest. good afternoon, molly. both houses of congress convened two minutes ago, and don t expect anything to get done because there s nothing to do here. whatever is done is behind the president s chief negotiationing people, vice-president mike pence, son-in-law jared kushner, and chuck schumer. nancy pelosi i m told is not in town. and the whip steny hoyer told me. if there s progress, it s probably along the line of verba verbage, the word of the wall. hoyer is of the belief if they could replace it with a term
it is only known to the letters of the certain world war. so that s why i do believe that corporation is the second pillar of peace today, how to work together and i m a strong defender of that. some times people consider it too long very painful but for me it is one of the very important outcomes of the two world wars. they are negotiationing, discussing is always better than war and it s very important. we need to u.s. commitment for such a corporation. your country has a very important role. it wasn t i mean during the past decade the u.s. played in certain ways the last resort of