course, of being sworn in and now to get to the work of the people s house so we re excited to do just that. not to bring up the buzz kill, but it is day 13 of this government shutdown so the main sticking point is, of course, president trump s border wall, and so he refuses to budge off his signature pledge. apparently he s bring some folks over to the white house i believe tomorrow or the day after. of course, speaker pelosi says democrats will give zero dollars to gill this thing. neither side is giving n.neither side may eventually get what they want, so what can your side bring to the table to end this? well, look, i agree with the speaker. i think that this shutdown is ludicrous. i do believe it is a trump shutdown. fundamentally later today we re going to vote on a series of bills here in the house that passed the senate with near unanimous republican support, appropriation bills that would reopen the government, that would ensure that our federal
mom. it was the president s signature issue. now, he made his campaign around immigration. let s be fair. specifically, keeping people out. but his signature pledge was the wall. i will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and i will have mexico pay for that wall. mark my words. we re going to build a wall. it s going to be built. it s not even, believe it or not, it s not even a difficult thing to do. but to his supporters, today that promise for the wall is sounding a lot more like these failed promises of presidents
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of europe forever. economically and politically and geographically. and all of the big decisions he took to follow up on the legacy of ronald reagan and complete the end of the cold war. i just think this was one of the most consequential single term presidencies. in fact, the sacrifice he made in terms of policy choices that led to his defeat, not just the fact that there was a three-way race with ross perot, but also the decision to raise taxes when he knew it was the right thing to do and that he was violating the signature pledge of his convention acceptance speech and that it would probably mean he would not be elected to a second term. we ve talked so much about george w. bush s presidency, his son s presidency and what he might have thought about that and how he approached it. but his son, george w. bush, played a role in his presidency as well.
self-evident decision, a brave decision which changed the map of europe forever. and all of the big decisions he took to follow up on the legacy of ronald reagan and complete the end of the cold war. i just think this was one of the most consequential single term presidencies. in fact, the sacrifice he made in terms of policy choices that led to his defeat, not just the fact that there was a three-way race with ross perot, but also the decision to raise taxes when he knew it was the right thing to do and that he was violating the signature pledge of his convention acceptance speech and that it would probably mean he would not be elected to a second term. we ve talked so much about george w. bush s presidency, his son s presidency and what he might have thought about that and how he approached it. but his son, george w. bush,