BROOKFIELD The Brookfield High School drama club offered free family fun Saturday to kick off the holiday season. “This is the eighth event we have had,
in order to distract from a very popular, just passed tax cuts. house republicans don t let this happen. pass the cr today and keep our government open. so let s ask one of those democrats what he thinks. house minority whip steny hoyer is with me. the president says it is your fault that you and other democrats want a government shutdown. do you? that s absurd. the only president i mean the only person who has talked about shutting down the government in the last four months has been president trump himself. he said that might be good for the government. it would be bad for the government and maernts people. we don t have the votes to shut it down or keep it open. the fact is that republicans, as you ve discussed just earlier in your program, have consciously shut down the government to try to take the government hostage. well and have the aca repealed. you have the votes to keep it open. you have the votes to keep it open if other republicans vote against it. the republ
seen from president obama. he called this no drama but it was drama from his childhood, growing up without a father, experimenting with dope. he talked about that during his remarks and interesting to note, jake, that this is basically the limit of what the president can do in the second term. a lot of his agenda is not going to get passed on capitol hill. he signs an executive order directing the administration to find out what works, what doesn t work when it comes to at-risk youth and this is a part of his convening authority, bringing together like-minded individuals to advance his agenda. jake? and someone who covers these issues a lot for cnn is our own don lemon. tell us what you ve seen that has surprised you. reporter: well, i m actually glad the president finally said it. as you said, i ve been covering these issues and i get emotional about them because it s important to me as a young, black man. and i talk about these things, get a lot of criticism for them but the pres