hostages to the president s applause line in a campaign speech. thank goodness we put that matter to rest and then we can get on to the subject at hand. open up government. two very interesting things. one, the president did blink, but that s uncharacteristic, especially if you read the letter he released just at noon yesterday to several hours later saying never mind is a big concessional retreat from the president. why? number two, she could have gloated right there. she took a couple jabs at the president but she didn t gloat. what s behind that? my question is why isn t the president saying, i ll give an alternative venue and i ll take my message on the road. he had two days of travel held after the planned travel, one in virginia state where he has a lot of supporters. those days are no longer held for travel which suggested he planned to give it and then take
that. referring to the stunning statement yesterday from president trump s personal lawyer john dowd called for an end to the investigation. using the late night firing of director andrew mccabe, let go two days br his retirement leaving his pension in question. a new york times report that mueller subpoenaed the trump organization for documents. joining me democrat of california and member of the house intel committee kmong. thank you for joining me. i appreciate it. i want to read a tweet from you so the audience can hear t. gloat now, you will be fired soon. not done cowardly, mf f who severed you. there s a storm gathering mr. president and it s going to wipe out you and the corrupt
while i ll agreet republicans have taken more of a hit this time, the american people are looking at next time. next time its coming very, very quickly. so when a president says he s not going to negotiate. you can t negotiate against yourself. all parties have to negotiate in good faith. what the president said less than 12 hours after the shutdown, the president came out and he didn t scold and he didn t gloat. what he said was let s negotiate. he said let s negotiate over principles the republican party has planned to claimed to wants for decade, a balanced budget and reform. jamie: there is talk of maybe change to the budget control act. how much would that affect this process and how would it affect every american? i think we have to stop this process of sort of kicking the
mark pryor in arc is you kansas. on the other happened, house members are listening to constituents and sitting in districts that are safe and they feel like they were sent to washington to fight, and that s a different mentality. how emboldened are the democrats in terms of what we ll see moving forward? i know obama is not a fist pumper, he won t gloat, but i m sure many are. well, and that will be the challenge especially for congressional democrats is to not take that victory lap. because as bad as this was for republicans, it was bad on the whole for every person sitting in elected office, including democrats. and it was bad on the whole for the country. will we get the same fight in january or will we be better than that? we ll get another fight of some kind. this time it will probably be over the sequester bunch the cuts. democrats think they have a shot to try to get rid of them.the cuts. democrats think they have a shot to try to get rid of them. we ll see a budget con