they want to see. the reality is that it is not working where things are in the status quo. i think it was interesting gnat president repeatedly talked about not just what would happen if they come up with a reasonable agreement and the detail if i thinks on what is reasonable in the eyes of trump because that is critical for the republicans. he has alternatives, that probably means a national emergency. that is probably one of the options. our colleague at abc news today asked the president today and tries to get that to him today. why didn t the president respond on that one. they want to see what congress could come up with. now we know, today, right? nothing. and he still has that defense
about this now. in the 30 plus days, this is unlike all of the others in that there were no closed door negotiations, there was no sense of urgency, just a stalemate and a screwed up set of incentives getting everybody nowhere. it feels like at least that reality has changed as of this hour on capitol hill. we know senator schumer talking to lindsey graham behind closed door. sarah sanders saying the president might be open to a temporary continuing resolution to open the government for a couple weeks if he gets a down payment for the wall. now what we don t know is how real any of this is. the fact that it could be open in three hours is very much a
crazy hour that finally settling something? it took 34 days but it finally appears that washington is finally gets serious about finding a way out of this shut down. the leaders of a bipartisan group of senators that emerged after a pair of key votes. it is after a press conference, lindsey graham spoke to the president about a short term deal to open the government which chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell just asked. we could hear from both of them soon. we just heard from the white house that said the president will only agree to a deal that is only going to include a large down appointment on a wall. at any moment we could hear from the president himself. we hit a pivotal moment, it appears the real negotiations have financiofficially begun. why now? reality may be setting in.
need border security. there it is, it was a fascinating president trump in some ways because at the beginning he sounded like a guy ready to concede to reality, and then he got wound up making his case for the wall. so halle, if you just hear the president at first he sounded like someone ready to just concede, who should we believe? talking himself into this thing. i think based on the reality of what we saw unfold, you to think that the president knows if he continues to hold ground in the second part of that spay that we just saw, he is not going to get anywhere. this prorated down payment and what it means, what it serves to show is the wiggle room on what
facts and even if he is opposed by members of his government. does everybody understand how crazy this is. this is out outlandish. first there were the remarks in helsinki which he will likely never live down. i have great confidence in my intelligence people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. i have president putin, he just said it is not russia. i will say this, i don t see any reason why it would be. the very next day, as we are seeing in this split screen reality, when his hand was forced he wouldn t say explicitly that russia was responsible. i accept the conclusion that