obtain what they called critical national security briefing on the front line. the president brought that bus to a screeching halt with a letter marked dear madam speaker he wrote due to the shutdown i m sorry to inform you your trip to brussels, egypt and afghanistan has been postponed. we will reschedule this seven day excursion when the shutdown is over. among the grounded was adam schiff who was supposed to be on the trip with pelosi and complained this was what he called fifth grade conduct by the president. white house aides said this was not a tit-for-tat. the president says pelosi should stay in washington to negotiate oh and they say while the military aircraft has been put on hold it is pelosi s prerogative to fly commercial if she wants to. tucker? tucker: highly amusing. ed henry thank you very much. michelle richie a former press secretary for the policy communications committee. she joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. thanks, tucker, for having me. tucker: so
they need a bonus. tucker: paltrpull poultry love. question four. one last multiple choice. i m winning though, right? it s 2 to 1. tucker: it s not for me to keep score our viewers are watching. chaos hit flagstaff monday when a tanker truck flipped over spilling which kind of liquid all over the highway a chocolate, b coffee, c beer. rachel? rachel: beer, c. was it c? beer? 3500 gallons that s how much liquid chocolate spilled in arizona interstate. a chocolate river they described it forming after a tanker carried. i knew i was losing. i figured beer. tucker: you doubled down. i admire that. she is from wisconsin so of course it s beer.
publicity stunt a p.r. move she reacted angry and said it was not. if it wasn t, what was it? what is her position on our continued presence in afghanistan. i think her mission was quite clear from what came from her staff. they were going to meet with nato officials in brussels and they were going to meet with our men and women in uniform and, look, it seems like this fight between godzilla and king kong is just going to go on for quite some time now. but i do think that it is a tit-for-tat and i think that this just exposes the president s lack of maturity when it comes to running our government. tucker: of course it was a tit-for-tat. obviously. right. tucker: it does raise, i think, a highly amusing one but it also raises a couple of real questions and i think it s worth talking about. what is the speaker s position on keeping trips in afghanistan? i don t know exactly what her mission is as far as keeping troops in afghanistan. tucker: isn t that a key question? that
white house. tucker: impressive. there has been a shutdown. i have been home with the kids. of course he knows. tucker: really a victory for your family. pro-family on this show. i m going a ward our eric wemple mennive mug to you. thank you, tucker. i went and watched the episode that you had with him on it was great. tucker: when i m feeling sad sometimes i pull it up. it lifts me. or if you are on a shutdown. tucker: exactly, right. it s amazing. all right, that s it for this week s final exam. pay attention to the news all week. come back thursday to see if you can beat the experts. we ll be right back. and i should have changed a long time ago. we re the tenney s and we re usaa members for life. call usaa to start saving on insurance today.
you applaud it? i don t applaud it because he did it as a tit-for-tat. is he immature. that s why he did it. tucker: but you are happy about the outcome but you don t like his motives? no. i definitely don t like his motives at all. i think his motivations are to build a wall that is pretty much, instead of make america great again he might as well to say to mexico if you are brown turn around. that s what the message is. tucker: i think you may have gotten your talking points confused. no talking points. straight conversation. tucker: talking points. brilliant. rochelle, thank you. federal shutdown continues. democrats coalesce around a rationale for continued opposition to a border wall. they are no longer telling you walls are too expensive. that was a laughable argument coming from the left they have given up. not telling you walls don t work because obviously they do. everybody knows that the probable they are now telling us, you just heard it, is that god doesn t like