topping our political radar, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell just issued a statement on the president s national emergency declaration, quote, president trump s decision to announce an emergency action is the predictable and understandable consequence of democrats decision to put obstruction ahead of the national interest. he also urged democrats to put partisanship aside as the wall gets built. ruth bader ginsburg is back after her surgery. she s now completely cancer free. the u.s. commander in the war against isis is breaking ranks with president trump on his plan to pull troops out of
the right thing to do which is check on the president, other efforts to do this. will republican leadership make the argument we re not going to win this anyway, why embarrass the president or put a line in the sand so this and future presidents don t run over them. putting the constitution aside for a second, it s a matter of political preservation, what s the point of being in congress if you don t have power and appropriation has always been the most important clear power. i think the equation to that is, if you re not in power, you don t have that strength and i think that is a political equation that mcconnell is making. he s running for reelection next year. he needs president trump s trump. he knows he needs president trump s support with republicans for new senate candidates. he s got a lot of close races. take kansas for example, and president trump still has great support among republican base, almost 90%.
hosts, conservative talkers who are very important inside the movement, very important inside the base, maybe not usually so important inside the oval office, how does that move forward? it s a big part. how much he was out thing and speaking about rush limbaugh s skills of speaking for three hours without taking a phone call and asking reporters and everybody in the audience, could you do that? it s easy to take phone calls. this is obviously something that is very important to him. you guys were reporting earlier about how trump was and his staff were kind of reaching out to those media and asking them to kind of help sell this and kind of rewrite the narrative much like instead of build the wall, finish the wall, but much like show this is better than it was than the shutdown. it s a public relations presidency because the president himself has been consumed with
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the u.s. senate to keep the federal government running why should we care here outside the u.s. i mean it s our strongest ally it s an important vibrant economy so headless government in washington would be a catastrophe for many aspects of the policies of a of a corporation of course this is the first focus the attention of the president towards washington even more and sometimes you need an outlook in president if a crisis comes and then of course the shutdown means the government can really run you remember. president obama couldn t attend a very important summit in asia in two thousand and thirteen because of the shutdown and we can t afford the president trumps trump is planning to come to the davos economic summit to europe and these are important venues he has to attend there so we d be happy if this could be avoided despite republicans controlling both the white house and congress the u.s. government as as you know has shut down what does this mean for president trump i