and put on your mitt romney expert hat in a second. i want to bring in michael steel, msnbc political analyst, friend of the show and people i want to talk to right now. we are in a stuck position. tim ryan was talking about this and said what he thinks is motivated donald trump today. watch. he has to protect that base because he fears what s coming down the pike in the investigation. as long as that s the case, you have the tail wagging the dog and we are going to get government from rush limbaugh studio in south florida. is he wrong? not that far wrong, no. i think this is a little bit of a tail wagging dog. look, this border wall thing has been a lie from the beginning. the president promised something he nu he couldn t deliver.
he has two years of republicans in the house and senate and couldn t do it. since republicans were spending like drunk sailors anyway, why not throw the wall in the mix? it was not part of the plan in the senate and house to do this because they don t want to do this. the truth that pelosi is going to say to the president today, you know this is not getting done because your own members don t want to do this. that s his reality. the truth of trump is, fine, i can still rattle the cages and make the noise to the base and keep the government shutdown. at some point, this becomes pressure on you, in his thinking. nancy pelosi is like, what s the cost to us, at the point? from conversations i had with white house officials, when you look at the picture of nancy pelosi, she said, you are wrong. you are not going to get your own members don t support this.