i m wondering. you have known him for a long time. how do you think all of this is impacting him, especially given this is some pretty targeted statements against him. there s been more than snark. there has been really deriding him and denigration. i wonder how you think he is receiving all of this. i refer to him as a happy warrior in that he listens. he learns. he engages. he negotiates. i don t think this is as embarrassing as you might expect. he has the ability to bring people together in a way most politicians can t or don t want to. i think that is so essential right now in this environment of resentment and polarization and how toxic it is. i see kevin as the perfect
how do you think all of this is impacting him, especially given there have been some pretty targeted statements against him, there has been more than snark, there has been really deriving him and emigration and i wonder how you think he is receiving all of this. well, i refer to him as a happy warrior. in that he listens, he learns, he engages, he negotiates. i don t think this is as embarrassing as you might expect. i don t think this is as embarrassing as you might except. he has the ability to bring people together in a way that most politicians either can t or don t want to. and i think that that is so essential right now in this environment of resentment and polarization and how toxic it is, i see kevin as the perfect example of someone who can get the job done because everyone is a participant.
bills to pass simultaneously. they re both part of his agenda. so progressives were just standing up for what this white house wanted. if the white house wanted infrastructure to pass separately, they could have done that. they could have started calling progressives, the speaker could have started whipping on that. i didn t get a single call from the white house, the speaker, from the majority leader. the vast majority of the caucus understood this. there were a few under a misguided impression that the white house or the speaker somehow wanted infrastructure to pass. they ve now seen the reality with the president being very explicit on friday. okay. so what about this, your democratic colleague josh gottheimer, one of the leading moderates, has also put a statement. he says, we cannot let this small faction on the far left who employee freedom caucus tactics as described by the new york times today destroy the president s agenda and stop the creation of 2 million jobs a year. i
removal attempts, to make their way through the courts, before he negotiates on daca. nonetheless, the white house wanted to project an image of progress after a week of an escalating feud between president trump and speaker pelosi. white house aides worked into the night last night, trying to get this proposal ready for the saturday afternoon announcement. vice president mike pence, jared kushner, acting chief of staff mick mulvaney were all in charge of crafting this proposal that president trump will announce. democrats though, fred, have said that they are in no mood to make a deal until the government is open. so it is unclear if this is the thing that breaks the logjam. sara westwood at the white house, thank you so much for that. let s check in now with cnn s ryan nobles. how will this proposal from the president go over with democrats? fred, not very well. sara talked about the fact that mick mulvaney and the vice president and jared kushner spent a lot of time crafting