architect of killing osama bin laden. these are the generals of our era and the president sat war with them as you pointed out in the begin there wasn t a group of people that he more warmly embraced two years ago when he came into office. the president has raised some broader concerns shared by many in the american public about the duration of the u.s. in the conflict, 17 years in afghanistan. do leaders on the ground and the military need to be held more accountable for the setbacks there? of course they do. you there s a simp wale way for accountability and that s to bring somebody else in. and president trump in that free wheeling discussion at the white house just a couple of days ago said that mattis hadn t delivered in afghanistan. now, i think, you no, i, you could debate whether that s true or not but the point is that the president is the commander and chief, can he get rid of generals he thinks aren t performing. and there s a long and honorable
city. the culteures are different sometimes than what i may represent here in northern ohio. but i think that they have great talent and they have great passion and they need to use it in a way that is effective. okay. i want to ask you about the shutdown that we re on now into day 15. there was a meeting this morning. no members of congress but some of the staffers were there with the vice president, with jared kushner, secretary neil seiiels dhs. no head way was made on the shutdown. i know before you could point to republicans having the house have having the senate, having the white house. but now we re in a situation in which the democrats have control of the house. do democrats have to come to the table and negotiate because at this point aren t democrats partially responsible for the situation as it exists? well, i ll tell you, i think there s a tremendous responsibility on ever elected
so maybe that is a method that president trump will go through. josh, we are starting to see some cracks among republican senators like susan collins and cory gardner. they both indicated they support ending the shutdown without securing the wall funding. do you expect more republicans to join them? well, if it goes on and on, yes. but those cracks so far have been very small fissures. for the most part our republicans in the house and senate have been aligned and fortified behind president trump in the stance for a wall. mitch mcconnell, one reason he hasn t gotten more involved and been more concerned is that most his members are not ready to, you know, make a deal unless the president s happy at this point. and the house the same way. i think you re seeing some fissures that could grow if the shutdown goes on for months and months and months. but i don t think we re at a breaking point yet. again, we are now into day 15. the longest shutdown ever here for the government, 21 da
new york. the government shutdown keeping hundred of thousands of federal workers from their paychecks is in its third week, going on day 15 here. and today a new group of people got together to try to end. not the president, not speaker of the house, no senators. today, vice president mike pence took a swing at that time playing host to this group of congressional staffers and s. they talked border security and steps to potentially end the government shutdown taking what one source calls baby steps towards some sort of resolution. they didn t focus on a specific dollar amount for border security, which is the point that had slammed the brakes on negotiations president trump has been a part so far. let s get to our white house correspondent boris sanchez. boris, a source inside that meeting saying baby steps, which ask not entirely negative, but someone very close to the president doesn t even have that bright an outlook. reporter: yeah, that s right. as we have during all of these n
tomorrow. and what is she doing? talking about taxes and the green new deal. she s trying to capitalize on the interest in her personality and bring it back to poll spit we ll see it that s suxs or not. all right. thank you for your take. tomorrow brian s toe is tomorrow morning on cnn. reliable sources. congresswoman rashida tlaib s comment getting criticized by some of her democratic superiors in the house. listen. i don t like that language. i wouldn t use that language. i don t again, establish any language standards for my colleagues. but i don t think it s anything worse than the president what the president has said. i don t really like that kind of language, but more to the point i disagree with what she said. it is too early to talk about that intelligently. the longest serving woman in the u.s. house history, marci captor now serve be her 19th term. great to have you with us,