force him to declare a national emergency for the wall i promise you, the country would be run much better if i had a veto over donald trump i m crazy that i expect a president to keep the promise he made everyday for an 18 months. this president said there would be a border wall and he just reversed himself. how much will the president be listening toextreme right voices and the potential of declaring a national emergency he is listening to the views they are sharing because they re shared by a lot of the president s constituents i believe the president knows it s impossible for him politically to give up on the wall idea. he has retract from his position
that would be a considerable shift for this president assuming that he that he is going to give up on this wall idea in some way. we don t have an understanding of what a down payment would be and what democrats would be willing to do, but i do this you re right that everyone is now looking for an off ramp. don t forget that a side drama today is democrats working on their appropriations bill for dhs. they don t want us to characterize is as a count er bill for the president, but saying you can have more money, but you can t use it to build a new wall, but that to me signalled that it didn t necessarily say very much and pelosi was careble about how she talked about it in public but it was still a moving of the goal
but but just to piggyback on that, i was talking to some white house officials yesterday. even though the president just on sfri safriday said he was no interested in doing this whole lindsey graham daca wall idea, people in the white house think all of a sudden he is interested in it again. this is a problem again, he keeps flip flopping. does he want to do a deal? does he not want to do a deal? that s why they don t trust him. some democrats are feeling some heat back home and do want to do some sort of compromise. yesterday i was hearing from the white house that this week there s a talk about bringing a bunch of rank and file house democrats who are more moderate or from republican-leaning districts to the white house to see if they will sort of do some sort of compromise with him. but, again, i don t know why they would trust him because he keeps changing his mind. i hear you. you re so right. think the point that you re making or the next point is that if democrats can t se
they want to present differences between themselves and their rivals in the democratic party and present some affirmative vision for what they want to do but ultimately they ll have to prove to democratic voters they have a strategy because they were unable to do that in 2016. he s a difficult politician to campaign against. he has an ability to suck up all the oxygen and find the debate about him. there s some reason to believe he ll try to pick his opponent by engaging in some of the combat with him. anyone tells you may have any idea how the democratic race is going to turn out is making it up. sthe shutdown is about the wall and the pride and power. the president is in a stand down with america s most powerful woman. the buck stops with everybody. they could solve this problem in literally 15 minutes. with moderate to severe crohn s disease,
clear how the government gets reopened. what does he sign? what comes out of the house that the senate agrees to? so this looks worse almost by the day. and the degree to which he has miscalculated and misunderstood nancy pelosi at this early stage in the game is quite striking. in the first situation room meeting right after the first of the year before she became speaker, he said, once you get past the speaker election, once you get the gavel, you ll be more willing to make a deal with us. are you kidding? she got more leverage, if anything, thaand was more willi to, in a mode of, i ve got to give my people what they want. and it s what she wants, which is to say no to this wall idea. and now they are thinking, well, now that federal workers have missed one paycheck, then the democrats are going to go to the table. this is a supreme miscalculation of the political sort of