booking.com, booking.yeah republicans and democrats keeping a close eye on the president s moves waiting for hints he might be willing to accept. lawmakers getting antsy to leave washingt washington. they said nobody wants to be here. the senate is in session all week. the house is out of town until wednesday night. besides a disgruntled tweet or two, the president not televising his next move. he continues to negotiate over border wall funding. one adviser said yesterday the president still willing and proud is how the president put it to shut down the government if he doesn t get what he wants. we will do whatever is
the fight for the wall. he sees that as a good thing and christmas shut down which a lot of people are not that enthusiastic about it. if it punts into the new year, he can be seen as continuing to fight for what he sees is a priority. one other thing on the issue of who gets the blame, the democrats were ecstatic he said so. there is no evidence the public take this is out on one side or the other in subsequent elections. they hate them all. this is a usa today poll. blame trump and the republicans 23% and democrats, 24% and equally 30%. keep the government funded. get groceries and feed the kids and keep the government funded? up next, iowa republicans support the president, but many
option that is the president could take. there was a meeting on friday with top staff and he didn t settle on any of the options though he did appear unlikely to accept a short serm pu-term pun. they want to not be here during christmas and they want to set it off until january where nancy pelosi will be the speaker and that may be ahead of a more interesting dynamic in terms of fighting out the $5 billion for the wall. the behind the scenes is to be blunt. they want it to end and lawmakers are waiting for the white house to tell them how. you kind of hit on this. congress can be a very, very slow institution unless they want to move fast. whenever the president decides the pathway he wants to go. they can move quickly and can t move on anything until they know what he wants. republicans don t want to undercut the president.
five. they are always done too early. the other thing is while trump won the state in 16 and continues to have a lot of support there, he didn t win the last go around. ted cruz did. there is a pocket of people that might be interested. senator collins has favorable with iowa republicans. john kasich, 31. ben sasse 24 and jeff flake 16%. if you are a challenger, the hill is pretty steep. it s enormously steep. the idea that somebody will defeat president trump in a republican primary is at this point far over the horizon. the more important question is, how much damage would a challenge do to him for the general election? that would be worrisome and people challenged in primaries have gone on to lose in the general election even if they have done fine. jimmy carter and george h.w.
necessary to build the border wall and stop the crisis of ongoing immigration. if it comes to it, absolutely. this is a fundamental issue. at stake is whether or not the united states is remains sovereign and establishing and enforcing rules. the democrat party is a simple choice. they can choose to fight for america s working class or promote illegal immigration. you can t do both. phil mattingly joins us live. in the past, steven miller has complicated these things with statements like that. democrats think it s on the republicans. where are we? it s up in the air. we quibble with the white house and he is quibbling with lawmakers. it s now true unless it happened in the last hour or so. republicans and democrats have been waiting almost the last week for any word whatsoever from the white house. what i have been told from sources involved are republican negotiators have laid out pathways to get out of this and