that s what s keeping them in there, and it s who can survive? or if they wanted to be consistent in twooef you, too moments or the moment when the blackface was first exposed in the yearbook, he has to go. they both should go. if you look at how fairfax answered this moment to gayle king, it s possible he looked to the governor and thought, understanding how bad what he did was. whether that changes things, who knows. up next, shutdown negotiations turn into another shutdown standoff.
have democrats overplayed their hand or not? are they still in a position of strength in these shutdown negotiations? clearly, the president lost the messaging war in the longest shutdown in american history, but this issue is one that s a little bit harder to get your head around than the wall which is, you know, a very clear, symbol and it s become a symbol. from a approximate from a policy perspective, it s possibly a bigger deal than the wall and something immigration advocates have been focused on for quite some time and it s the thing democrats are saying they should have in exchange for being able to spend more than $1.6 million on the physical barriers. we know the leaders are meeting this afternoon at 3:30 to try to start those talks. hopefully for those workers depending on the congress they will start talking again and for now its not clear how they will
why try it again now? well, i think what you re seeing, too, this has as much to do with what s going on in washington, with the budget negotiations going on, whether we ll have another shutdown or not. trump is itching to get involved. he s itching to get out there and deliver his what he considers his message to the american people. i think you ll hear a lot of remarks tonight that will try to lay the groundwork for blaming nancy pelosi and congressional democrats if another shutdown happens. he started this on twitter this morning. this is as much about the theatrics of the border and the shutdown negotiations as it is a political play. really trying to lay he got blamed so badly, craig, for the first shutdown. he actually said those words in the oval office. public opinion was so hard against him, he wants to make sure that if we have a second shutdown, those optics aren t the same the second time down. we did seem to be moving toward an agreement. it seemed, to a lot of fo
suffer when the government is shut down. i hope we can unwind some of of that rhetoric. the people both parties have used for years and years about how these are bad people. they work for us. another thing this week, mitch mcconnell said my god, do not give them another week off. don t make voting day a holiday. good lord, we wouldn t want to help out the federal workers. no way. that does it for us this friday. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. thanks, mika. i m stephanie ruhle. this morning, i ve got a lot to cover. starting with a defiant president trump getting a wide ranging interview on everything from the mueller probe to potential 2020 employees. plus, why he thinks the shutdown negotiations with speaker pelosi are a waste of time. she s just playing games. she ll be begging for a wall. she will say mr. president, please, please give us a wall. i doubt that. treasure trove.
i don t know the answer to that but i know this. the white house, when you were talking earlier about china not keeping its word and lying and cheating, this is the frustration when i ve talked to some of those officials in that room this morning. this is their fundamental frustration. they feel like they have to deal with china and the next day they do the opposite thing which is that means what trump needs do-tdto have is what reagan used to talk about, trust but verify. christine, steven, thanks very much as always. new talks, same old problem. how will this round of shutdown negotiations be different from the last one which was, what? a few days something that we ll talk to one lawmaker who was trying to hash out a deal. and we are moments away from the opening bell on wall street. futures are up almost 300 points. the trade talks between the u.s.