what does it tell us that he said steven miller specifically in his beliefs outside the fringe. the american people didn t vote for steve. it is interesting lindsey graham is putting this squarely on the hands of the president. we started this hour with a press conference from the white house with mark short and with nick mulvaney putting it all on democrats. it s kind of interesting, a key republican vote that is not going to vote in favor of the continuing resolution is saying that this problem starts and ends at the white house than we re inside the ten-yard line and the white house can fix that, garrett. reporter: yeah, let s be real about this. if there is a shutdown, the real cause the big picture long-term cause is a lack of presidential leadership. at the bottom line, if the majority leader, the republican majority leader of the u.s. senate as he said this week doesn t know where the president stands on an issue like immigration, how can anyone else. it s possible that bo
up? certainly, they can t deny the numbers, a lot of times they look at the bigger picture and the things on their agenda and what they are working on. clearly, foreign policy is taking center stage for this administration and for many in the world. they are looking at what they are able to do right now, which is, obviously, as we heard from nikki haley, joining the u.n. and sanctions on north korea, the president signing the legislation or signing on with congress to oppose sanctions with russia. they are looking at the big picture long term, not a snapshot of polling data. errol, alice says they can t deny the numbers, the president is. that s right. kellyanne conway is a professional pollster, written a book on the subject and has done it for decades, really knows the business. she is not able to play the games the president will where
fighting a counterinsurgency war. even though they say the ground forces haven t trained extensively on an army on army conventional warfare, they say battle hardened troops tend to be more proficient across the board. there are some problems. why didn t they get a very strong? because they said when a military like the united states is preoccupied with short-term conflicts, they say it s putting some of its best people, like a general petraeus, in charge of immediate operational planning. that s sort of a brain drain on the big picture long-term thinking. they say by its very definition, you re not going to have the same creative juices going into that long-term planning. they also say there s a real problem with us, society in general, in that fewer and fewer people are really qualified to be in the military, both physically, you know, too fat, overweight, or they have criminal records or just don t have the mental skills to deal