that s the latest we have. what actually comes of the next three weeks remains to be seen. mike: three weeks is not very long when you consider weekends and lawmakers leaving town. does the fresh memory of the shutdown motivate all the players to get something done on border security? the democrats seem to think they ve won here and in a sense they have won because president trump has not gotten his wall funds. president trump of course said that he would probably own the shutdown. then there were 1 million people not getting paid, families were affected. there was a trickle down effect. there s a lot of pressure here to get something done. both sides, they have to walk away with this not looking bad and president trump s easiest way out it would seem is a national emergency because wall funds just don t seem to be flying with democrats. mike: democratic leaders on the hill yesterday seemed pretty happy they held their ground on the border wall.
take a listen to this and i ll get your reaction. we asked the president to open up government so we would have time to have a debate on the best way to protect our border. democrats are committed to border security and we think we have some better ideas about how to do so. whatever the time frame, let s hope we learned a lesson that shutting down government is not an acceptable alternative. mike: how do you think the folks you cover at the white house will respond to those comments? well, there was some remarks that weren t aired just now there were jeers from schumer and pe pelosi to trump. nancy pelosi was asked if she would support l wall funds and she said have i not been clear? the democrats have been almost openly antagonistic to trump on this. they have the numbers to block a wall in congress and those numbers have made things pretty
around the bush. they re mad. look at the sites that trump reads and quotes on his twitter account regularly. drudge, no wall funds. breitbart, no border wall. and the washington examiner, trump blinks. not to mention ann coulter. wait until you see what she said. the president is now saying he ll shut the government down in three weeks if he doesn t get the money by then. if we don t get a fair deal from congress, the government will either shut down on february 15th again or i will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the constitution of the united states to address this emergency. the executive action route. when it comes to the shutdown, though, it is a very tough threat to take seriously. had the president just gave democrats every single thing they wanted for nothing in return. which begs the question, why did
the border wall. take a listen to this and i ll get your reaction. we asked the president to open up government so we would have time to have a debate on the best way to protect our border. democrats are committed to border security and we think we have some better ideas about how to do so. whatever the time frame, let s hope we learned a lesson that shutting down government is not an acceptable alternative. mike: how do you think the folks you cover at the white house will respond to those comments? well, there was some remarks that weren t aired just now there were jeers from schumer and pe pelosi to trump. nancy pelosi was asked if she would support l wall funds and she said have i not been clear? the democrats have been almost openly antagonistic to trump on this. they have the numbers to block a wall in congress and those
will declare an emergency. that s the latest we have. what actually comes of the next three weeks remains to be seen. mike: three weeks is not very long when you consider weekends and lawmakers leaving town. does the fresh memory of the shutdown motivate all the players to get something done on border security? the democrats seem to think they ve won here and in a sense they have won because president trump has not gotten his wall funds. president trump of course said that he would probably own the shutdown. then there were 1 million people not getting paid, families were affected. there was a trickle down effect. there s a lot of pressure here to get something done. both sides, they have to walk away with this not looking bad and president trump s easiest way out it would seem is a national emergency because wall funds just don t seem to be flying with democrats. mike: democratic leaders on the hill yesterday seemed pretty happy they held their ground on