his plan that says on please, go ahead. on the shutdown, mr. walz, i don t know if you just heard the president, what he said in this round table. he s reacting. his words, i would love another shut down if simply democrats don t meade meet his immigration demand. i would love another shutdown. no one else would. this hurts people. it s diysfunctional. you compromise to get things that make a difference. this something, again, the president s tendency to lean toward totalitarianism, it s my way or no way. with the treasonous way, it s my way or you are against the country. it s that type of behavior that has us into this place that americans hate. compromise to get things done. build some roads. fix health care. deal with comprehensive immigration. don t simply question someone s love of the country and then say he would love a shutdown. he will get what he wants on
some of these things but the american people certainly won t. congressman tim walz, thank you so much. the direct quote on the president, let s have a shutdown. it s worth it for our country. i would love to see a shutdown. gloria borger, our chief political analyst, is standing by to also respond to that kind of language from the president. why would he say that? well, look, i think from his point of view, it s probably a negotiating ploy. so an opening move? yeah, an opening move and probably feels that the shutdown last time was a political fizzle for the democrats, which it was, that they didn t get anything out of it. so he s probably thinking why not do it again? if you put that political explanation aside, this is the president of the united states calling for the government to shut down, which is kind of astonishing. i don t recall any president in that i can recall ever saying gee i think a shutdown
in. we have a record number of women running. another seat on offense that we re going to take back, tim walls is retiring in minnesota s 1st district. we ve got a great female recruit there. she s gonna be very competitive. i think she can win that seat back. dana: do you think the democrats are overconfident that they can take back the house this year? i think that they are a little overconfident. democrats are excited, dana. we know that. but we have proven in races like georgia 6, where we were outspent by over $10 million, that we can still get our voters to the polls. and that s what we have to do. that s our job, is to get our voters to the polls. we will run on our record. tax reform is gonna make our economy strong. it s gonna be a big deal for every american. and everybody s gonna be able to look ats their pay check by the enof next month and say, is tax reform good for me? and most americans are gonna give a big thumbs up. dana: president trump s up in pennsylvania. ce
responsibility is for the 2018 mid terms 689 that s no small task. as you look across, do you think that the republicans have the advantage, i saw larry sabato of university of virginia things the republicans do in the house and senate. what is your take? well, it s going to be a competitive election. we need to be ready. just today, dana, another member of the democratic house decided not to run for re-election in a district that donald trump carried, carol shea porter. we have carol shea porter, tim walls, christian cinema as well as jackie rosen. four of their incumbents in competitive districts decided not to run for re-election. we will be on offense to go after those seats. we re still going to have defense to do but we re going to be on offense. today s announcement by carol shea porter shows that there s probably no democratic wave. if it was coming why would somebody who just got re-elected to congress and has only been
unions does that not tell you who s at stake? it telling you, va vet, am-vets, every single one. look at that list. it s embarrassing. on the other side american federation for government employees. they can t even come out publicly on this. they re working behind the scenes trying to remind them who writes the check. there are folks who should be ashame folks like tim walls. some who have have gone the other way. they re not anti-veteran but when they had a chance to do the vote they didn t. pete hegseth, thank you for joining us. coming up president obama going where no president has gone. details next. and take a look at this video. that s an armed robber trying to