first, speaker pelosi pushed the president to postpone his state of the union address. then the president abruptly grounds the speaker s flight to afghanistan. when will this back and forth end? when will we ever come together or they i should say to reopen the government? let s discuss. hello. if we had the answer to that question, right, we wouldn t need to be sitting here on television. how do you read this, frank, and what s going on in washington? is this a both sides thing? well, what s happened is this has gone from being a policy fight to being an intensely intense fight. he is now trying to humiliate her back. he hates nothing more than feeling like someone has the upper hand and has shamed him. what he did today was so incredibly personal. it was the use of the word excursion in the letter, the use of the word public relations
totally appropriate. it was just three weeks ago the president of the united states went to a war zone, iraq, during a shutdown to visit troops. the goal to obtain intelligence from the front lines. did the president consider that to be a public relations event? i don t think so. and then this line. obviously if you d like to make your journey by flying commercial that would certainly be your prerogative. t it is absurd to say the speaker should travel that way, but if this president believes pelosi should travel commercial to afghanistan, then why is his wife flying on a government plane tonight to mar-a-lago? i m not making this up. melania trump just flew on the plane you see there to palm beach. you see the tail. it s not commercial. we re in the middle of a shutdown. she s not going to a war zone. she s going to mar-a-lago. and this entire later is also a breach of national security.
indignation on both sides. i m just shocked she didn t think she d leave the country. why would you leave the country on a government shutdown and you re speaker of the house? i think the president s decision to disclose the speaker heading to a war zone was completely and utterly irresponsible in every way. why would she leave the country speaker of the government. didn t the president go to a war zone during a government shutdown? just check. it s absolutely no coincidence this happened the day after pelosi and what was also a nakedly political move to be honest scheduled the president reschedule the state of the union blaming the shutdown. and of course there s her opposition to the president s wall. i m not for a wall. i m not for any wall. so many questions about all of this. in his letter the president called pelosi s trip to the war zone during the shutdown a public relations event, which is interesting coming from the man who just last month as i said
first, speaker pelosi pushed the president to postpone his state of the union address. then the president abruptly grounds the speaker s flight to afghanistan. when will this back and forth end? when will we ever come together or they i should say to reopen the government? let s discuss. hello. if we had the answer to that question, right, we wouldn t need to be sitting here on television. how do you read this, frank, and what s going on in washington? is this a both sides thing? well, what s happened is this has gone from being a policy fight to being an intensely intense fight. he is now trying to humiliate her back. he hates nothing more than feeling like someone has the upper hand and has shamed him. what he did today was so incredibly personal. it was the use of the word excursion in the letter, the use of the word public relations event. and the way you know this was about just poking at her, it would have been a far smarter thing to let her go on the trip and then say i have
soon and seeing our open and dangerous border receiving the attention it so desperately receives. i like his tweets all the way through he capitalizes words like strong border, shut done. her trip postponed, those are his words hours before take off. postponed just like pelosi threatened to do to the president s state of the union. that s what this is about retaliation. and a trip by the house speaker in line to a war zone is not an excursion. that demeans the many men and women who are dying and serving there. hold that thought for just a moment because the next words to highlight from the letter are public relations event. the president writing i m sure you would agree postponing this public relations evnlt was