hand and the president, based on our reporting, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions yesterday, the president said, listen, everybody pause. come back after leadership elections, after that is over. perhaps the thinking was from the white house they would make more progress at that point. we know at least pelosi will be here meet with the president, the vice president and that negotiating team which has been led by mick mulvaney. he s been around on the hill today for the swearing in as well as jared kushner. hallie, stick with us. if you get anything, pop in and let us know. i want to bring in my panel. rick sangle is a former under secretary of state. karine jean-pierre, senior adviser to moveon.org and brett stevens. nick is still here as well. so the white house announcing this improommptu press conferen. nancy pelosi has just taken the gavel. day 13 of a government shutdown. what is the goal here? presumably, the goal is to resolve i wish the goal wo
states clearly wanting to take the day s narrative back. not from nancy or back from speaker nancy pelosi, back from the new democratic congress, back from what the democrats are demanding in order to get the government back open or what they re offering to get the government back open. and back to the border. and his demand for a wall. that i believe is the first time he s officially gone into the briefing room and addressed reporters. and the first thing he does, rick, is to bring out border security. well, he s trying to step on nancy pelosi s day. she had a wonderful day where she took the oath with young children there, but to go back to your question about why he harps on the wall, i m going to take it to the furthest extreme. there was talk of impeachment today. there was talk of what the house can do. what he s looking at is that ultimately, to be convicted, he needs to get two-thirds he needs one-third of the senate to protect him. by refocusing on the wall, which is the
kennedy line, the torch is passed to a new generation. you want somebody who has a clear contrast with trump in all kinds of ways, including youth and vitality. does that just mean a younger candidate, or a candidate that s not a man or a candidate that s not a white man? or it could be mike bloomberg, who s a real billionaire. we ll see. i just want to say, i agree with rick. i think there s something we forget. yes, hillary clinton won the popular vote last time, clearly not the electoral vote, but there were a lot of people who stayed home, who we could just inspire and get new voters to come out. it doesn t have to be, you know, going after the voters that donald trump won yeah. but who is that candidate? who is the candidate that s going to get people all of their couch, or whatever, and into the voting booth to say, i m going to take a chance on this person. i feel like they re going to respe represent me? another name to consider, amy klobuchar of minnesota. i thin
swamp. when we win on november 8th, we are going to washington, d.c., and we are going to drain the swamp! drain the swamp. a campaign promise as real it seems as mexico paying for the wall. when you take a look at who is working in trump s cabinet now as pointed out by eric lipton of the new york times. a defense department run by a former boeing executive. the epa run by a former coal lobbyist. the department of health and human services run by a former pharmaceutical lobbyist. and the department of interior run by a former oil industry lobbyist. the new acting secretary david bernhart took over after ryan zinke left. now they are examining whether zinke lied to inspector general investigators. rick, kareen, bret and nick are
that his base makes about him, he wants but that s my point. it s not the ultimate judgment his base makes. it s the ultimate judgment we re seeing rush limbaugh and laura ingraham and right wing media make about him. it s his calculation that s the ultimate thing. there s one thing they ll hold him to. that s the one thing they ll hold him to. and those senators in states where he has plus 50% rating would never vote to i agree with rick. his base will forgive lots of lies and promises not being kept but the wall is i don t agree. i don t agree. if you talk to people. what if he doesn t build a wall and they say it s fine, i trust his judgment. that wasn t just one person or one guy that decided i want to see the show of this. it was a general feeling that what they wanted was somebody to go in and make things change. make washington work. and to be stronger, a stronger presence around the world. he had a unique opportunity to do almost anything he wanted among the vot