strings attached. mark meadows says a different thing freedom caucus. my goal make individual tax rates permanent. that s interesting. the rates that bernie sanders came out and said well, they are temporary. now democrats are going to fight against making these tax decreases, you know, are they going to fight against making them permanent so everyone has a lot of agendas going. if there is a sense of cooperation. they will get it done. if democrats feel as though they can run out the clock for a year in order to get back the house and. ainsley: do you have confidence in that cooperation? brian: we haven t seen much of it. ainsley: no we haven t. brian bine why not try it for a change. steve: freedom caucus talking about voting no in the budget bill because too much spending in it they will need a bunch of democrats. ultimate live have to say okay, let s work together on this and deal with daca and the wall in total before the deadline in march. ainsley: meanwhile on sunday night, new
absolutely booming. the stock market is up. he has created trillions of dollars of wealth since he got here. since he was elected. we have the lowest unemployment rate in 17 years. lowest unemployment rate among hispanics ever, folks. lowest unemployment rate we have had among african-americans and teens and women. you can t argue with the facts and the figures that motivate people to go to the polls. i don t know why the democrats, i mean, i do know why. they have nothing else to say. what are they going to do next year say hey, not a sings gel one of us voted for tax decreases. not a single one of us wanted to roll back regulations that are hurting property owners and taxpayers. not a single one of us when we could, stand um for the moms and dads and moms and pops in the tax code did that. they are for porous borders. they have what they call isis determined enemies in the jv team. and so we want their help. but what in the world are they going to run on other than this next year. i
somebody likes me. my policies. the president applauded the passage of tax reform in the senate budget committee yesterday. meeting with what was supposed to be the bipartisan congressional leadership. two empty chairs there on either side of him after democrats chuck schumer and nancy pelosi bailed out of the meeting. they didn t like the fact that the president tweeted he didn t see the possibility of getting a budget deal with the democrats. the president saying they have unrealistic demands. listen here. president trump: we have a lot of differences. they re weak on crime. weak on illegal immigration. they want the illegal folks to come pouring into our border. a lot of problems are being caused and the other thing they want tax increases and we want major tax decreases. so they decided not to show up. they ve been all talk and they ve been no action. and now it s even worse. now it s not even talk. so they aren t showing up for the meeting.
those comments made at a white house meeting in the roosevelt room. only the republicans showed up. two empty chairs, one for chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. they bailed out after the president tweeted earlier in the day he didn t see the chances of a budget deal with the president said. hear what the president said about their absence yesterday. president trump: we have a lot of differences. they re weak on crime, they re weak on illegal immigration. they want the illegal folks to come pouring into our border. a lot of problems are being caused. the other thing they want tax increases and we want major tax decreases. so they decided not to show up. they ve been all talk and they ve been no action. and now it is even worse. now it s not even talk. so they re not showing up for the meeting. a little bit of political theater prompting this response from nancy pelosi.
they want tax increases and we want tax decreases. they ve been all talk and no action. now it s not even talk. nicole wallace later said it was staged like an eighth grade play. if the empty chairs were at all ambiguous as a visual, for those who missed the point, there were name placards for both schumer and pelosi both absent. our fanl, peter baker, correspondent for the new york times, ashley parker, white house reporter for the washington post, one of the authors of the piece we just quoted and sam styne, all three are msnbc political analysts. peter, i d like to begin with you. can you shed some light on the thinking of this man who you so closely study, especially in recent months. we saw him on camera today, we heard his voice, we see the political skull duggery he s