thank you for explaining what you heard and experienced yesterday behind closed doors. obviously we are continuing to follow it. thank you, alisyn. all right. breaking news on the 2020 front. new york city mayor bill de blasio just announced he is ending his presidential run. de blasio did not make the last presidential debate stage and he had been struggling in the polls. in fact in his home state in new york we just noted moments ago he was at zero in the preference poll most recently. you can t go on forever, all 20. obviously money draws up. so we have predicted that some people would be dropping out after that last debate. but i think that de blasio brought some interesting topics to talk about. he talked about what he s done for new york in erm thes of universal pre-k. and those were interesting topics. he was also a voice from the left and the side of the stage who was willing to go after the more moderate candidates with him gone. it puts more onus to directly
afghan government. with me now to talk about that and a lot more this morning is congressman mike quigley. we re going to get to a lot this morning, congressman, but let me just begin with that and the fundamental question after so many years, is it the right move for the trump administration to draw down significantly in afghanistan and agree to this peace agreement with the taliban? is that something you would do? i think the american public is long tired of the extraordinary length of the war in afghanistan and the american involvement in this. the question will be is how sound is it, how enforceable will it be after the fact? the final analysis americans want us out of there, and it can t go on forever.
their leadership has, i think right now, there s a lot of political posturing going on, a lot of political rhetoric and we ve got to get together and put america first, put the wall or the fence or the barriers or border security ahead of a lot of things of political opportunity. maria: what would calling this a national emergency look like? do you expect that to take place this upcoming week? where the president calls a national emergency? i don t know but the president has alluded to it already and i think he s got some inherent powers to do some things. i would hope we could do it ourselves through the regular process but we haven t yet and that s the legislative process through the congress, but we ll see what happens. maria: those furloughs it can t go on forever. maria: right and we re coming up to the sooner we get together and quit blaming each other and put the american people, it s
by the way, one of our jobs is oversight. but when you look at the immediate problem at hand, noah, which is, what do we do about this shutdown? and let s assume, or hope, it can t go on forever, how does she play it? well, i think the president made a pretty significant strategic blunder here, in so far as he s handed unanimo enan something to unite the caucus. this is one of them. i know partisans on both sides of this issue will look at this, but the wall is not on the table. what he wanted was $25 billion. it s walked back to just $5 billion. he wants a face-saving exercise to demonstrate that i m still in charge here. democrats a s aren t going to g it to him. as long as there is no pressure on the president to sign one of these bills, he s not going to sign anything. but does pressure come and come pretty quickly, if you start seeing headlines of people who are not able to pay their
house for march ra la house. the white house has committed he will stay here and sara sanders basically reiterated that this morning, but it is a real question. how long is he going to want to sit in the white house to sort of wring his hands about the situations, not being able to go where he wants to go. there will be parts of this government where people are working on furlough, parts of homeland security where people will be working on furlough. it can t go on forever. he understands the politics of this are bad. he understands that the bad politics of ending the filibuster are not only bad in the long term but the near term. it will help protect him from