this point, but in some ways this is out of his hands because president trump has and his administration specifically have taken such a leadership role. i don t want to say that they are leading, but they have taken a leadership role on the republican side. if you re a republican senator, if you re a republican house member, in many ways you have to wait to see what president trump does in his discussions with chuck schumer before any of this gets resolved. so, stephen, let s bring you in. since gloria invoked now you have to agree with me. 100%. this has been many months in the making because the trump administration announced the end of the daca program, this was back in september. the federal funding for the children s health insurance program called c.h.i.p., ran out on september 30th. they have to pass three they had passed three short-term spending bills since then. they had months to figure this out. yeah. so why can t they just get the job done? well, because
milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken place over the last 12 months. lowest female unemployment in 18 years. got to give it to him for humor there. cnn s kyung lah is in los angeles where a half a million people flooded the streets for the women s march today. kyung, welcome to you. we witnessed coast to coast protests against this president and his policies. talk to me about the mood and what you ve seen today. reporter: well i m going to refer back to what jim acosta said. the sense here, the people we spoke with, that america is truly broken, and they place the blame squarely in the lap of president trump. and so what the sentiment that you got here because of the shutdown that s happening in washington, because of the dysfunction that they ve seen over the past year, a lot of the people here we spoke with say last year was about sentiment. this year s march is about action and funneling their sentiment this year to the