shutdown. politico has an article this morning saying media outlets struggle to assign blame because they are so used to pinning it on trumpeting of the democrats are the reason. rachel: which means the public probably is all of a sudden a weighed in already. there is one member of congress i think who is willing to work with the republicans is actually very liberal. he s representative luis gutierrez from illinois. let s see what he has to say about the wall and daca. if that s what it s going to take to take 800,000 young men and women and give them a chance to live freely and openly in america, then i will roll up my sleeves. i will go down there with bricks and mortar because you know, a brick for life, okay, let s do it. and let me just say, that wall
treated, you re going to be sidetracked and you re not going to get your deals done. let s talk more about this with republican strategist brian morg morganstern and political analyst ellis heniken. why can t the president do what senator santorum was suggesting? part of the reason he s president today is because he can change the national conversation with the click of a tweet button and communicate with tens of millions of people and sort of launch national debates on certain things. but is this boding wre iningt now coming off of that nine-day trip. he said it was a home run. ep talked about the highlights in italy, then he gets back to the u.s. and he s changing the subject. right. well, he s defending himself. you know? i think that he was doing both. he was sort of trumpeting
to not just do fire drills. this is mtp daily and it starts right now. per good evening from washington. this is chuck todd. doesn t get much lower than this. democrats were measuring the drapes not just in the white house, that was in the bag. they were talking about the senate and even the house at one point. they thought they would narrow it in a big way or shall we see bigl bigley. they are facing a government after misjudging the electorate or coming up with the message of their own government. after years of trumpeting, democrats find themselves out of touch with working class white voters in the midwest. according to smart politics, democrats have now lost five consecutive presidential elections in these states.
right now in terms of intelligence and because there s no firm evidence yet that it was a bomb, it s tough to go down the path of how did the bomb get on board. i might need to interrupt this next answer of yours if he appears at the podium. i do want to ask you, there has been much made about the fact that when a terrorist organization achieves its mission, the reason they do it is to create terror and the only way to do that is to make sure everybody knows you did it. and yet there hasn t been this massive trumpeting of responsibility. there s been slight trumpeting. there s been some suggest that is to give those who were responsible some cover and a little bit of time in order to save themselves and get away if, in fact, they pulled this off. do you see any possibility to that? i definitely do. that s certainly a potential. the other thing is, who is going to claim it? again, wiliat sinai has been attempting to garner support from isis. they want to be part of the
background of someone isn t always admissible. sometimes it plays to the favor of a defendant, by the way. the media were all over the background of zimmerman. every accusation against him had a huge trumpeting and everything that was mentioned by jon wasn t in the media about trayvon. jon: the fact that trayvon was sort of cemented by the early photos that were released to him. the family brought out the photos of him young and age, age 12 or 11 like that. he was 17 when he died. we ve seen the photos of the gold teeth and everything like that. you know, just the presentation in the media had a lot to do with it and the politicians are still getting on board. just this morning the congressional black caucus released a statement in which he said that trayvon was an innocent teen who died because george zimmerman chose to take the law into his own hands. maybe he died because george