federal employees are often gotten their back pay. they get that. these folks not so much. so i m working with my colleagues to try to fix that so that they don t have to bear the brunt of being bargain be chips in this shutdown. so without legislation they won t be paid? no. there s no anything currently in place that would make sure that these folks get paid. so i m sure, senator, you don t have much more visibility into the republican side than we do. but as you know, 60 senators voted for the continuing resolution. there are three or four who are somewhat vulnerable and talking about getting something done here. do you see any cracks really on the senate republican side, enough cracks at some point mitch mcconnell might go to the president and say game over, we have to do a deal here or do you think they stick with the president? i don t have any great insight into the republican caucus. i do know that my colleagues like corey gardiner and susan collins are hearing the sa
and farmers in minnesota are have had a really rough year with low prices and these trade wars and they re getting ready to go to the bank to get their working capital loans for the next year. and they don t know what s happening. they can t get the they can t even often get a phone call answered from the usda. so this is having real impacts on people. it s a waste of taxpayers money. it s a waste for the federal workers, and it s increasingly harming people. so what do you think would cause mitch mcconnell to change course and even if he does, does the president get onboard with any potential deal? i ve been involved in a lot of big negotiations in my life, big labor negotiations and big deals. and it s almost impossible to negotiate with somebody whose position changes all the time. you have to know what is the win? how do you find a common find the common ground that you need to? and i suspect that that is a lot of what mitch mcconnell is struggling with too. this is his
is that going to work, gabe? president said you know, we were wrong because the american i think what this really shows is we have to flashback to public didn t turn their back on what he promised. the fact that donald trump was donald trump promised to secure willing to cave on the wall and that southern border. in fact he stopped calling it a wall, he called it slats or a if he doesn t, the peril that fence. and it was only until fox news rebelled and others, tucker will come from that will be carlson and laura ingraham and massive from his base in the party whether it s aviation ann coulter s xhentd comments assets, a wall of cement, steel, that he would be a failed that s semantics. president were he to panic and my friend, katen, you know i dug in. so this is all donald trump governing just because he saw the possibility of a revolt from love you. his base. president obama promised health the person i m watching throughout all this is going to care when he actually meant g
republicans make their decision based on what s going to happen in the next election. if the president is toxic, his approval ratings are five points lower than they are today, at some point mitch mcconnell and other republican leaders start saying, oh, my god, we re going to in 2020, we re going to be where we were in 08. we re at significant risk of losing the presidency and senate majority, if the numbers get low enough, republicans will distance themselves from donald trump. the question is how low. what will it take to get there. i asked members of the united states senate, i find it fascinating. you re watching the mueller investigation as if it s in a black box, like every other one of the 350 million americans. you have no idea what s coming and you have no idea what the underlying facts are. bob mueller has kept the congress completely in the dark, in particular, the intel general committee, having been compromised do we know more facts?
on what s going to happen in the next election. if the president is toxic, his approval ratings are five points lower than they are today, at some point mitch mcconnell and other republican leaders start saying, oh, my god, we re going to in 2020, we re going to be where we were in 08. we re at significant risk of losing the presidency and senate majority, if the numbers get low enough, republicans will distance themselves from donald trump. the question is how low. i asked members of the united states senate, i find it fascinating. you re watching the mueller investigation as if it s in a black box, like every other one of the 350 million americans. you have no idea what s coming and you have no idea what the underlying facts are. bob mueller has kept the congress completely in the dark, in particular, the intel general committee, having been