not going to agree to any additional spending until there is a deal on daca. we feel it s improper to hold it hostage our troops who are working so hard to protect us over a position on illegal immigration. jon: joining us now, leslie marshall, syndicated radio host. and gianna caldwell, both are fox news contributors. it seems the american people generally do not like it when their government shuts down and they usually blame the party that s responsible. the question is, who would people feel is responsible if this shutdown were to happen? honestly, we are talking about the democrats holding everything up with this disingenuous fight over daca. they are legitimately holding 11 million people hostage over political points. this is where we are in this country, especially when we
president s agenda. melissa: s take a joining us now is fox news contributor, we also have syndicated radio host at salem media, thank you to both of you for joining us paid what you think, kevin, is he right? mitch mcconnell is this much right and this much wrong. you have a very clear strategy. you have to get to republicans that can win in november. he always likes to rattle off three or four codenames that did not do very well. the problem is, his senate is packed with people that defy his own strategy. marco rubio, ben sasse, mike lee, these are all people that mitch mcconnell worked against. and they are now the future, the young guys, the stable of the future republican senate. he is this much right, but he has this much wrong. melissa: richard, if they do get passed to the primary opposition, they are that much stronger.
and syndicated radio host and fox news contributor leslie marshall, thank you for joining us. steve, i will start with you. i did you see any monday night football, the entire dallas team along with their owner jerry jones kneeled before the national anthem, they stood up and directly across the field you had at the arizona team all standing linking arms, what do you think? i did not see it, for the first time in 40 years i didn t watch one minute of nfl football this weekend, i am a football fanatic but i can t stand the disrespect and i m not going to give them my viewership and effectively my money. i think what the president has done here is he is giving voice to working-class regular americans, who are tired of the condescension and the disrespect we saw from the elites of our society. whether they are in a hollywood or the news media or big-time sports. instead of their indignation, i think what they should be
jon: fox news alert, president trump sharing sensitive information with the russia just the latest in a string of controversies to dog bit trump administration. with contradictions emerging in the statement offered by the president and his senior staff. many lawmakers and strategists from both parties suggest the white house has lost control of its message and that something has to change. let s talk about it with leslie marshall, syndicated radio host and fox news contributor, brad blakeman served at deputy assistant to president george w. bush. we know you have to run a tight ship in the white house. is this president contradicting his own advisors and statements about this russia information? no, i think he is clarifying it and doing it quickly. what he s saying is that nothing untoward went on with any release of information he gave to the russians, and i can tell you by experience many times
the final transcripts of what the bill was then make a decision on how we try to make it better basically. i am for trying to make it better. i am fair repealing obamacare. i m not giving up, but i don t think that the hospital necessarily predicts what is in the senate bill. we don t have a score. it s hard to understand what is going on with the score. does it lower premiums? by law, the senate has to have a slew a score. what you think about the house letting before they get a cbo score? i don t approve of it. jon: the score is the cost estimate of all of this pure joining us now for more, leslie marshall, syndicated radio host and fox news contributor and jamie weinstein, political commentator and host of the podcast the jimmy weinstein show. you first, jamie. there was a lot of pomp and circumstance, a lot of high fives yesterday in the rose garden when president trump was there with house republicans who got this thing passed. but it is far from a done deal and even republi