look, 25 billion protections for dreamers, the president then went back on that deal, he is not a good faith negotiator here, now the president has held the american people hostage, more than 800,000 federal workers are missing their paychecks. holding them hostage over a wall he told us the mexico would pay for. simone, we ll come back to you afterwards, here s the president. just a short time ago i had the honor of presiding over the swearing-in of five new great american citizens. it was a beautiful ceremony, and a moving reminder of our nation s proud history of welcoming legal immigrants from all over the world into our national family. i told them that the beauty and majesty of citizenship is that it drews no distinctions of race or class or faith or gender or background.
mind you. no, but they re calling it amnesty. an amnesty for wall trade would reward immigration law breakers. the president is a loser for the forgotten american workers who were central to their promises. simone, i know you wanted to get in on this? i just, look, i think that if the president really wants to negotiate, he has to pick up the phone and call speaker pelosi, he has to pick up the phone and call leader schumer and bring them back to the negotiating table. but stunts like this do not make democratic lawmakers feel good. the president is essentially coming out, using his bully pulpit of the white house, in an attempt to bully lawmakers into his deal. the president seems to have found mitch mcconnell and he s on board with this deal. sure, simone, but he did have a meeting with some democrats
for a short period of time. leaving an open ended question of whether or not they would be vulnerable at some point. and in exchange for $6 million in permanent wall funding. the message we re getting from democrats in the house and senate, they re not going to trade anything permanent for something temporary. we ll have to see how the president describes this proposal when he comes out and speaks in a few minutes. we never know specifically what the president is going to say until it comes out of his mouth. if it s based on what we re reporting, this is something that democrats in congress are just not going to be interested in. ryan, sara, stand by as we await the president s remarks. live pictures from inside the white house as soon as the president takes the podium, we will listen in and take it live. let s continue the discussion with former press secretary for bernie sanders and cnn political commentator, simone standers. alan stewart, brian selter and
were a handful of polls that have come out this week. the majority of americans have said that the president is to blame for the shutdown, republicans and the president versus the democrats, and not that democrats don t carry any of the blame, but that s how it breaks down. the majority of americans don t believe the border wall is the firm to the problems that with border security. is the president listening to the majority of americans? clearly he has been, because he is taking this step. i think, of course, the president acknowledged, i ll be willing to own this shutdown, if this were to continue and until today, before he made an overture. i think it was on him, but now he s putting the ball back in the democrats court to take action. to simone s point, why have we gotten to a point where a reasonable suggestion from marco rubio saying, at least give this an opportunity?
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