quou. absolutely. that s how i won my primary. winning that primary shocked the democratic establishment and in november, she became the youngest woman ever elected to congress. we have made history tonight. just a few days later, as soon as she got to washington she paid a visit to climate change activists who were occupying her party leader for nancy pelosi s office. she was the only newly elect ed member of congress o who decided to drop by during the sit in. she call ed on pelosi to create select committee on climate change without any members of congress who accept money from the fossil fuel industry. nancy pelosi is incredibly powerful. she absolutely is. and you re occupying that office. i could have thrown up that morning, i was so nervous, but i just kind of kept coming back to
the president on friday said that they support him on the shutdown. not everyone is happy, but for now, how the politics of this whole episode plays out, that s an open question we want to get into with gloria borger, michael caputo and paul begala. gloria, who do you think has the upper hand tonight? you have the president threatening to declare a national emergency in order to get a wall built, and a split congress with negotiations seemingly go nowhere. look, i think right now, this president is reeling, because he s not he s not winning the narrative here and he s trying to change it. he s trying to create a crisis where i believe one does not exist, and if you look at the polling, you have 62% of the people in this country oppose the building of a wall. you have a majority of people, according to a bunch of polls, who say they blame the republicans and the president more than the democrats for a shutdown. so, what the president s trying to do with this speech tomorrow night is
it s a crisis up here. whether it s a crisis on the boarder k i m interested to see the case the president s going to make. paul, do you see it as a crisis? there is an opioid crisis, yes, but not an illegal immigration crisis. we have fewer undocumented folks here today than ten years. the president goes to the board e, he hasn t announceded where he s going to go. where ever he stands on border, he ll be in a district where the local member of congress opposes his wall because every member of congress who represents the border says we don t need a wall. they oppose it. so i hope he listens to them. but i m terribly worried that for political purposes he s going to try to assert some sort of national security argument for extreme emergency powers. this time tomorrow, we may be in constitutional crisis. he seems to admire putin and
getting the most attention. congresswoman cortez. 29 years old. never run for elected office pfr and was working as waitress and bartender when she launched her campaign. she managed to unseat one of the most powerful democrats in house. like bernie sanders, she s a democratic socialist, believes in college, climate change, she s been described as an inspiring and idealistic insurgent. depends on who you talk to. few rookie members of congress have put such bold ideas on the national agenda and stirred up so much controversy before they were even sworn in. i spoke with her for a report last night. there are people that say you don t understand how the game is played. do you? i think it s really great for people to keep thinking that. you want folks to understama
be part of a party. right. and to get things done. what should alexandria ocasio-cortez and all the other new members of congress, what should they expect? well, she hasn t asked my advice. i m sure she s not going to. but i would say there are some people that really care that are there, that could really help. and so people are going to be looking and seeing if she s going to be a show pony or a work horse. they are going to want to know whether you re willing to put in the work. when you want to get a bill through, you have to convince your colleagues to support that bill. because she s calling for primary challenges against some democrats, which has already angered some democrats. right. so you ve got i would also say my motto was not to let perfect be the enemy of a really good win. so if i can move the ball down the field, i love football so i use football analogies a lot. if i can move the ball down and get a first down, that s really