of times in american history when the president and the congress do not agree on funding the budget and there is a gap. but the question really arises why have we seen this so much especially in the last 30, 40 years or so. what happened was 1980, jimmy carter was president. his second attorney general was a guy named ben sililetti. he handed down a ruling which is if there is a funding gap even if brief you re going to violate the law if you keep agencies open. you ve got to furlough employees. that s why we began to see these things in the 1980s. the other development that made a big difference was tv in the house and senate. came to the house in 79. came to the senate in 1986. that made it almost a theater for someone like newt gingrich you were talking about at the time of the clinton shutdown or rand paul this morning to go on in his case the senate floor and make a big speech in favor of his views on taxes and spending saying that the senate republicans should be more like defic
you were talking about at the time of the clinton shutdown or rand paul this morning to go on in his case the senate floor and make a big speech in favor of his views on taxes and spending saying that the senate republicans should be more like deficit hawks. so what s the if that s the transmit mode in terms of why a show boating member of the house or a show boating senator might want to get in front of the cameras and make a case and shut down the government to get attention for their cause what, about the receive mode? it s my sense the public generally hates a shut down. when a shutdown happens they want blame they want a bad guy, not a hero. yeah, it s a sign of government dysfunction and you know, rumor has it that we americans have an election about nine months from this week. and i think one of the things that voters will say in november is, who is responsible for government not doing what it
president. congressman quigley, i have to say anyone who cares about the reputation should read this transcript. it s a quick read, there s no show boating. everything you say sounds as if it s being presented respectfully, everything that congressman schiff says and the few other democrats who speak. what s striking is the silence of the republicans on the other side, except the chairman, peter king, who was technically the moving party here to release this, says absolutely nothing in defense of his own, you know, pretend suggestion that it s his idea that they release this. and peter king, everyone knows, is a very volumable member of congress. it s hard to keep him quiet. i would say to america, welcome to our world. i m proud of my colleagues who serve on that committee and the work they ve done last year, but
intel committee, chairman nunes, are far more concerned with protecting this president legally and politically than they are from keeping us safe. when in the face of the justice department telling them that this is extraordinarily reckless to release this kind of classified information and the fbi tells them that they have grave concerns about its accuracy and after all that, they changed the document secretly. they made substantive changes between the document, the memo that was shown to all the members of congress and the actual document that they sent over to the white house. who does this, unless they re willing to do absolutely anything to protect this president. congressman quigley, i have to say anyone who cares about the reputation should read this transcript. it s a quick read, there s no show boating. everything you say sounds as if it s being presented
regime, and still the underlying hostility. as long as the press releases are televised as i think it shouldn t and they will try to get their grand scale. and the regime that brought it back on camera. joe. i agree, that the press briefings probably shouldn t be on camera. we see show boating and grandstanding from reporters to go viral. and two press secretaries under clinton, and bipartisan reporting. and howie? this is what is missed, president trump provides near