shouldn t be sued, very rarely do you get sued when you do a national emergency. president trump spoke for almost an hour. mostly off the cuff and took questions from reporters, including this one about the numbers that the president cites that don t jibe with official government figures. i m asking you to clarify where you get your numbers. because most of the dea crime reporting statistics that we see show that drugs are coming across at the ports of entry. that illegal immigration is down and the violence is down. so what do you base your facts on? let s go. no, no, you get one. just sit down, sit down. we ll start with maria hinajosa. the new york times editorial headline reads phony wall, phony emergency. we ve been following all the undulations that led up to this. your reaction to what we saw yesterday in the rose garden? so actually very upset, but also very strange.
voters, to say none of these people can govern and the lack of faith in the system of government which is already at an all-time low is going to increasingly dip. eugene robinson, sometimes you need to know when to take a win. giv again, just my opinion, it doesn t know like the democrats know how to take a win. if this government is shutdown offer donald trump s stupid, phony wall that is a fight that democrats win every day. if it s about democrats refusing the republicans exception to be able to detain criminals who are illegal immigrants as well, i don t think that fares as well in the cross tabs. do you have any insight as to whether the democrats are going to shut down the government on
some point, you ve got a million or so americans that will never get money back for what they re losing during the shutdown. think about it, you ve got tsa agents that are not going to be able to afford to show up. you ve got correctional officers that can t go in, you ve got coast guard members of the coast guard that aren t getting paid, that are now having to worry about how do they pay for their rent, how do they pay for medicine for their children, how do they pay for doctor visits, how do they pay for schooling. and air traffic controllers. we can go down the list. the real word consequences are devastating all over a shut down that s based on a phony premise, on a phony wall that not one in four republicans wanted to fund when they were in power. and the data shows most of
lemings behind a guy whose approval rating is about 40% on an issue where 75% of americans oppose the president? 75% of americans don t want the government shutdown for his so-called phony wall. what what comes next? at what point does mitch mcconnell say, hey you know what, maybe we don t want to lose ten senate seats in 2020. maybe i don t want to have to retire in 2022 early because i don t want to be minority leader for the rest of my life. when does that happen, john? it s got to happen soon or this republican party is reduced to dust. right. well, let s be clear. the question you re asking illustrates the fact that the republican party at the e intellectual moral level has already been reduced to dust.