I dont know what they are but i think they will be terrific. Someone predicted today 5. 3. I dont think that is going to happen. 5. 3. It has a four in front of it we are happy. If it has a 3 but it is 3. 8, 3. 9, 3. 7, we are okay but these are unthinkable numbers. We are going to hear whether they are great numbers. The wall street journal predicting their economists surveyed think it could be in the 4s but we heard a lot of 5s. People who were at the mill yesterday, it was 100 because they had jobs. There wasnt enough business, we are getting deals from other countries, the president says i was a construction worker and i know some of these countries looks like the best steel comes from america. A guy named tony, we dont know his last name and this was on Facebook Live, he got emotional and jobs coming back to granite city. What does it mean to your family and friends to know your back at work. What is the one thing you will take from his speech and the moment today. Sound like we a
Meanwhile congressional leaders have a simple message. Get this done and have the president stay out of it. I dont like shutdowns, i dont think they work for anybody. I hope theyll be avoided. I would be open to anything that we can agree on on a bipartisan bases thatll make them pretty hard to encourage. When the president stays out of the negotiations we almost, always succeed. When he mixes in, it is a formula for failure. I am asking President Trump let Congress Deal with it on its own. The president does not want to compromise and congressional leaders dont want him in the room. Our big question is did the president learn anything from the longest Government Shutdown in history . Joining me now our kelly odonell and politics reporter sam stein whos also an msnbcs contributor. Kelly, it is an obvious question having covering both sides of pennsylvania avenue, is the president getting his own way here . The president is trying to keep stoking sort of his own base at a time when the