right? eddie, don t democrats need to remind us of that? indeed, indeed. i think they need to remind us of a couple of things. at the heart of this whole thing is a lie. everything. bingo. so what does it mean to engabe engage in good faith negotiations about a lie? that s nonsensical. i don t think he wants a victory. he wants to fight. because the wall is a symbol of an ideology. it s the symbol of a particular kind of way of exploiting people s fears and anxieties about the changing nature of the country. donald trump doesn t give a damn, at least in my mind, of the substance of the argument. he doesn t see the points of contact between him, the republican party and democrats who are concerned about border security. when he said to leader pell lolgsy pelosi, if we open the government, will you give me your wall? i think in effect leader pelosi
being considered right now. the president said there are many different types, including concrete. so i don t know if he actually saw this but he said that was from the previous administration and a number of different types of wall or barrier fencing are under consideration. the president is also claiming that democrats mischaracterized and that reporters did not properly sort of describe meeting he had with speaker pelosi and leader chuck schumer. did a lot of reporting on that. both parties have in large part had very much the same story. the president seems to be refusing the idea he was somehow slamming the table or angered in some way. he s talking about the fact this was him walking away from democrats who according to his view are not willing to deal on the border wall. davos, the world economic forum,
all right. we re going to air that the president speaking to those reporters. a fired up president. i think all of this, the drama that s going on, remember what the president is. a tv producer. he is flanked by bill shine, former president of fox, who has said this will be fun. let s take a look at the president. is it fun? we re going to the border. just spoke to some of my friends in arizona. we have tremendous support. the republicans are extremely united. they all want to see something happen, but they are extremely united. and i don t think i ve ever seen unity like this in the republican party. the media, which i call the opposition party, a lot of the media, in coordination with the democrats, they re not talking about the democrats. for instance, this morning, a number of people came out and said you do need very strong border security. that includes a wall or whatever
we re not pawns. this is a crisis. a crisis for federal employees. shows the steel barrier trump has been touting cut straight through in a border patrol test. if i build a steel wall, it will actually be stronger than a concrete well, not that one. treasury secretary steve mnuchin is set to be grilled on capitol hill over serious concerns about why some sanctions against russian oligarchs, how come those suckers were lifted? we begin with the president headed down to texas. the trip he reportedly said was pointless. he also said a meeting with democrats was a waste of time. but some republicans, this is really important, some republicans have been quietly working on a deal that could end this shutdown. i have a great team here to
it is. a number of democrats said that, but people don t like to report on it. we have tremendous unity in the republican party. it s really a beautiful thing to see. i don t think there will be any breakaway because they know we need border security. we have to have it. and the only way you re going to have border security, there s only one way. you can have all the technology in the world. i m a professional of technology, but if you don t have a steel barrier or a wall of some kind, strong, powerful, you re going to have human trafficking. you re going to have drugs pouring across the border. you ll have ms-13 and the gangs coming in. and we ve done record apprehensions. we re doing a great job. but we need help. if we havy to wall, we can have far fewer people working in terms of border security and doing an even better job. so if we had the wall, we could