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Hold the answers ill talk to former congressman Jason Chaffetz about that and also coming up, ill talk to author Neil Ferguson about his new book about how President Trump rode the rising tide of social networks right into the white house as we look ahead right now on sunday morning futures. And good morning congress will be back at it once again today searching for a solution to reopen the government as the shutdown enters the second day. Rhetoric ratcheting up from leaders in both parties this morning with no signs of compromise. Democrats are pressing President Trump to protect socalled dream ers from deportation, but republicans and the white house want to focus solely on passing a spending bill. Meanwhile Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is saying one way or another a vote to end this stalemate will happen early monday morning. Joining me right now is senator roy blunt of missouri the vice chairman of the Senate Republican conference and also a member of the Senate Appropriations committee. Senator good to have you on the Program Thanks so much for joining us. Maria nice to be with you. Maria can you tell us where we stand . Well i really cant. Actually, i think that senator schumer has managed to take a issue that republicans have never handled very well in the past and own it. This is the schumer shutdown. This is, theres no reason for this to have occurred and one of the lessons is we need to get back to where we openly debate these Appropriations Bills and get them to the president s desk one or two at a time rather than every year have this issue that frankly empowers the minority leader in ways that shouldnt happen. He made a decision here that he was going to have a shutdown over an issue that is clearly solvable that has nothing to do with appropriations and frankly they own it. Maria yeah, well i think you make a really good point. Living by continuing resolutions is obviously not sustainable and not what anybody wants. How do you get there . Well you know the Appropriations Committee gets its work done and has these bills ready even a couple years ago when Barbara Mcculsky was the democratic chairman of the Appropriations Committee she over and over again went to senator reed and said get these bills on the floor let the other members be part of this debate and lets get them on at that time president obamas desk and i was for that. I was for having that open process still am. We have been dragging through the nominations process in a way where democrats over and over again in the senate have required 30 hours of debate on the president s nominees that would then get 90 votes or easily pass sometimes with as many as 90 votes and by the way so were at no debate so just a stall tactic that prevents us from getting to other issues like daca on the floor or Like Community Health Centers on the floor or like chip on the floor. Now were down to where republicans have a bill that no, the democrats dont oppose anything in the bill at least a majority of democrats dont and theyve decided to use that as the effort to get an unrelated piece of legislation and not just get a debate on it but they want it on a must pass bill. Thats not the way to ledge us late. First of all you dont get everything you want on a bill that everybody else has to vote for and its a position i dont think that the democrats can sustain it very much longer. Maria so are they just doing this to make a big stink one year after the president , the first year in office on the day to create some chaos so that were not talking about what youve already done and the progress youve already had and this white house has had but more about the chaos going on and the Government Shutdown . Do they just not want to see government open right now . You know, i really cant figure out what their motivation might be. I suppose that could be it but clearly, the country will be better off and the congress will be better off if weve been talking about what we have gotten done, whats happening to the economy is extraordinary, companies decided to bring money that they earned in other countries back to the United States of america and to do it not using the whole time that was available to them but to go ahead and pay big tax amounts to our country so they can get that money back here in an economy where the regulators are no longer out of control, where judges are more likely to determine what the law says as we put more and more conservative judges on the court and where the tax policy is clearly a tax policy that makes the United States a place to want to invest money and see this economy grow. What weve seen with Companies Reaching out to their employees already and saying in a growing economy we want to show you more ways that we value, those are all of the things that maybe the democrats dont want to talk about but certainly every american should want to be talking about, opportunity. Maria now the American People really need to understand whats happening with the military right now. I mean speaking with generals earlier, theyre saying look this is very much still obamas military. I mean when you consider the fact that were four months into the fiscal year 18, the government is still living on a continuing resolution. Military is 50 of its aircraft down for maintenance because of a lack of spare parts. Pilots flying less than half of the flying hours required to maintain proficiency, mishaps are speaking, five of the armys 58 brigades are ready for combat five out of 58 and the military cannot grow as it remains the smallest in 75 years. Can you tell us what that means about the practical state of our military today and how youre going to get out of these continuing resolutions and increase and let these budgets that are in place . Well, im on the Senate Intelligence committee where we look at our threats around the world every single day when were here in washington. Im on the Defense Appropriating Committee and what youre saying , what youre repeating and what theyre saying is exactly right and the big obstacle the reason we have a continuing resolution debate rather than a lets fund the government like we funded this year debate is weve foolishly cant come up with a number that accomplishes what we need to do to defend the country and then whatever the democrats insist on on the other side of the spending ledger to allow that to go forward. You know i hear this constantly, well the democrats or the republicans control all three branches of government. Republicans under our system have to have some democrat cooperation to move forward in the Senate Unless you have 60 senators and we dont have that now and there are democrats who clearly understand these defense priorities, want to help us get there. I suspect they are as frustrated as i am that their leaders not coming up with a serious debate about what those spending number s look like rather than how long were going to go between now and the time we really have a real debate on how we should be spending our money this year rather than whether were going to continue to spend our money like we spent it last year. Maria meanwhile theres the near term issue of getting this government open again. What are your expectations for this next 1 00 a. M. Vote tonight well i dont have anything else scheduled at 1 00 a. M. Tonight so ill be there today during the day and i will be there tonight. I dont think the democrats can sustain this much longer. Theyve clearly brought an issue that should have an easy conclusion, 70 plus the American People along with me agree that these daca kids unless theyve gotten in some huge amount of trouble should be able to stay here but 70 of the American People also agree that the border needs more control and immigration needs more control. That should be easily negotiated by a congress and a minority that wanted to function, were not seeing that happen. I think well get through this pretty quickly and if we dont the blame is clearly a place where the blame deserves to be. You dont deal with these issues by forcing, keeping the government open based on some other legislative issue that you insist has to be done, just exactly the way you want it done maria well every service has told the congress that the military is at risk of winning in a highend conflict in the state its in today. At the end of the day the democrats have to recognize this that it is on them if in fact this does not move forward. Well the number one responsibility of the federal government is to defend the country and with our important leadership in the world its also to help do what we can to maintain a Peaceful World and were not prepared to do that. Were asking young men and women to step for forward and defend us without giving then what they need. You know, we should never want an American Service person to be in a fight. We want them to have every possible advantage and they clearly are moving away from that long advantage they have had and we just need a number. We just need senator schumer to step forward and get serious about agreeing on that number that they can support and what else has to happen in the spending realm for that to happen. What hes done is tried to elevate all of these spending issues to every other issue and that just does not work. Maria hes trying to throw in as much spending as he can figuring that the conservatives are on their heels. Well, who we dont want on our heels are the men and women defending us every day or the people that are dependent on the government being accessible and open and this is a foolish place that the democrats and the senate have forced the country to and i think they will change their mind on this pretty quickly. Maria senator well be watching the developments thanks so much for the update. You bet. Maria senator roy blunt joining us there up next the Obama Administration spy on the Trump Campaign . All roads seem to lead there some lawmakers say a classified memo may hold the real answers and they want it made public from a congressman Jason Chaffetz weighs in on that. Follow me on twitter at Maria Bartiromo and sunday futures let us know what youd like to hear on the show as were live this morning watching all of the developments out of washington were looking ahead on sunday morning futures right now. Back in a minute. Its easy to think that all Money Managers are pretty much the same. 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I think people actually need to ask themselves what is it that the democrats actually want because theres nothing in the bill theyre opposed to but what is it that they actually want . They say they want to protect dreamers but they want to offer a bill. Theres no bill to vote on. Theres no insertion of an amendment they want to try to do. I dont think theyve answered the question exactly what it is they want to do and look, at large part ive got to tell you republicans in the senate are partially to blame for whats not happening because the house passed these Appropriations Bills nearly six months ago and they didnt bring up a single one of them until they wanted to do a continuing resolution. Maria right okay so there is the question for the senate there. Jason let me switch gears and look at this memo. You have not seen the memo correct . No, no. Its classified and so they will release the memo is all about the idea that its classified. Its a summary its a fourpage, look you have trey gowdy, devon nunes and tom rooney who have been leading this effort in the house Intelligence Committee and a fourpage summary thats highly classified. Members can go in and read it and its startling but Something Like 170 or so House Republicans have looked at it but theres only one democrat whose come in and read it and so i dont know how as a body they can, the democrats can all complain about the release of this because they havent even read it. Maria your former colleague representative says if we get this memo into the Public Square , heads are going to roll at the fbi and the justice department. Theyre basically saying that this dossier that we know was un verified and largely nonsense about donald trump was used as justification to get a fisa warrant, to wire tap the Trump Campaign used by a political opponent, barack obama and Hillary Clinton to spy on donald trump during the election which would be extraordinary isnt that right . It really is. I mean, it goes to the core of who we are as a country and you talk to members who have actually read the document. While they cant talk about the contents theyre very shaken by what they have seen. It does name names. It does involve the intelligence community, it does involve the department of justice and were talking about people at the highest highest levels. I would like to see this released. I understand there is a classification problem. The president can get involved in that and the other thing thats going to happen is the Intelligence Committee devon nunes is the chairman i did this when i was the chairman of the oversight committee. You can send a criminal referral to the attorney general so attorney general sessions what he does or doesnt do with this not just the summary but the body of the work will be interesting and you also have the Inspector General whose preparing work after a year, 450 employees, i think it will be the most explosive and most revealing look at what was happening and not happening within the department of Justice Maria but why does nothing ever happen in terms of someone being held accountable . I mean jim jordan, your former colleague from ohio representative jordan says more importantly, the American Public needs to see what the fbi did is just as wrong as it can be. Thats a quote from him and we know that the leadership at the fbi was complicit and basically protecting Hillary Clintons criminal it saying that peter strzok with his girlfriend lisa page saying we needed an insurance policy should donald trump win is the insurance policy this non stop investigation over potential collusion between the Trump Administration and russia which of course we know does not exist theres no evidence of it. Well there isnt and then youve got to look at the flow of money, whose communicating with who. You have the bruce ohr problem where his wife is working at the company that is the subject of an investigation and these are people at the seniormost level of government here. Thats whats so scary about this, so look, the government tends to protect itself and they tend to cover each others back. You know this whole socalled deep state im telling you the closer i get to it the more real it is because they do end up protecting themselves and pushing back congress trying to run up the clock and they were all betting on the fact that they thought that Hillary Clinton was going to win and it was never going to be an issue. One of them was actually going to a Hillary Clinton celebration party. I mean everybody is going to get a chance to vote and theyve got their political views but they cant wear on their Shirt Sleeves when they go to work at the department of justice. Maria so you dont think anybody will be held thible at the end of the day even though its clear that the fbi was in the tank for Hillary Clinton despite the fact that the American People voted donald trump in as president , they were still protecting her after and around the inauguration. There is no excuse for any remember on any side of the party to say lets not look at this. If theyre for openness and transparency then they should release this memo and the contents of it if they have to block out a few names here and there to protect some classified information do it but america deserves to see this. They need to get it out there and the attorney general, attorney general sessions has got to take action. Its all in his hands. Maria Jason Chaffetz good to see you sir thanks so much. Thank you. Maria when we come back President Trumps use of twitter plays a huge role in the way he communicates with the world. My next guest says it also help ed get him elected into the white house. Ive gotta say, i love the new place. Oh thanks. Yeah, i took your advice and had geico help with renters insurance it was really easy. Easy. Thatd be nice. Phone for help with chairs, say chair. Phone for help with bookcases, say bookcase. Bookcase. I thought this was the dresser . Isnt that the bed . Phone im sorry, i didnt understand. Phone for help with chairs, say chair. 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I wanted to write a book that would teach Silicon Valley a History Lesson but also wanted to help people who are interested in history understand the new world of networks, because you need a little bit of Network Science to understand that world. Maria tell us how its all connected. Now, we find ourselves talking about things like ai and how Machine Learning is really changing our lives. Well theres clearly a new frontier but in terms of social networks, you dont need technology to have social net woks. They go all the way back even to before the printing press. If you think about some of the things that have gone viral in history, take christianity or islam. Those things went viral in a way that nothing in our time has gone viral not even donald trump and they did so in largely in populations without any Sophisticated Technology for communication, so we are the species designed to network. Maria you mentioned donald trump lets talk about that because i enjoyed a piece on your book about networks and hierarchy in the trump era. Well in some ways networks got trump elected. After all, i think if you remove facebook and twitter, imagine the 2016 election without online social networks. I think he would have lost because i think facebook was absolutely crucial to his campaign and helped him overcome a big financial disadvantage and remember Hillary Clinton out spent him 2 1. Takeaway social networks hes not president not just because of the way he uses twitter. Its perhaps more important that facebook was the key to his campaign strategy. Maria even though the Trump Presidency has had this incredible success as a result of these networks, facebook and getting him elected to begin with, the Mainstream Media, some people out there in the populous , theyre not buying into the Trump Administration right . Right. Maria so why is it failing in that regard and yet hes winning in other areas . If you just look at donald trump s policies theyre working and yet youve got naysayers in the Mainstream Media who will not buy into that network. This is one of the great paradoxes that theres a disconnect between the way in which trump is portrayed in the Mainstream Media. Its a constant story of liberal heads exploding and the reality of policy outcomes. Whether you look at the economy or Foreign Policy, there are clear improvements relative to the obama presidency. I think the deregulation doesnt get talked about nearly enough. I think its more important than the tarp reform actually and its giving a real tailwind to the u. S. Economy and i think the news is going to stay strong this year and those people who predicted a financial disaster when trump was elected big shout out for paul krugman and the fake news awards, he said the stock market would never recover from trumps election so the egg is all over his face and in his beard but the other thing which sfas it nateing to me is the Foreign Policy success that nobody talks about. Look whats happening in korea. North korean regime has moved a long way. Why . Because its faced some Credible Threats in military action and i think there was also pressure in china from the Trump Administration that worked. Iran, trump changes policy in iran and it doesnt take too long before there are protests in iranian cities so i think there are big shifts going on here but in the end, the conversation in the Mainstream Media is not about those policy outcomes its about the president s twitter feed or what he says in a casual remark and this all gets blown out of all proportion. Historians know that history is not all about personalities. Thats sometimes forgotten by journalists. Youre an exception maria but when you look at the Trump Presidency when it comes to be written as history as much will be written about the networks and structures of power as about his personality. Maria you make so many important points and another one we should mention is isis almost defeated because he changed the strategy and yet not talked about. But this press conference this past week with his medical doctor was beyond. Got all of the attention. Maria but the questions that were coming from the journalists , i just to me its a strange parallel universe that many journalists in habit and i think it goes back to the fact that they were so wrong about the election. Remember they overwhelmingly predicted a victory and they were prepared for a clinton victory and when youre wrong theres a temptation to kind of reconstruct reality to try to validate your position ive seen this done by some academics too but you know we have to live in the reality created by trumps victory. I dont defend everything the president says or does. Much of what he said has been offensive to me. After all im an immigrant, my wife is an immigrant from africa but that is not the only issue we confront and i would urge everybody focus on policy outcomes, pay less attention to social media including the president s tweets. Maria very practical of you and we so appreciate your can door. Thanks very much, niall. Networks and power from the free nice enter to facebook, Niall Ferguson. Meanwhile a show down in the senate over a new spending bill but there is an end in sight for the shutdown House Freedom caucus member David Schweickert is up with us next on sunday morning futures, back in a moment. Maria welcome back. A standoff in the senate when lawmakers are trying to reach an agreement on a spending bill and reopen the government. The house already passed a stopgap bill thursday night after gaining support from members of the freedom caucus. Joining me is Republican Congressman david schweikert. Hes a member of the House Freedom caucus. Congressman good to see you thanks so much for joining us. Good morning maria. Maria of course you voted yes on the house spending bill on thursday. What is your take on whats going to break this and get the government open again . Its a brilliant question because this isnt the log jam over policy. In many ways, when you look at the senate, its almost a policy to be named in the future from a number of Democrat Members who all want to run for president , so how do you negotiate over an issue that our bill, the continuing resolution, pretty much had everything they wanted . Maria it had everything they wanted, so would they have sort of kicked and screamed and not agreed to anything regardless of what was in that bill . I mean because they just want this chaos . Yeah, you see, i think you just nailed it. This is less about policy. I truly in my heart believe this is about a number of democrat u. S. Congress people anderring to the most radical fringe of their base and theyre already suffering from the fact the economy is doing well and people that had a brutal decade are finding jobs and income and savings. Good things are happening around us and the fact of the matter is having a republican president , a Republican Congress i think theyre trying to find a way basically to burn the place down maria right thats what it feels like congressman but at the end of the day, still congress, if you do not repeal or temporarily suspend the budget caps as part of the appropriations bill, the military continues to be hollow ed out. Oh, absolutely. Maria you say well this is not about policy this is just fighting because theyre jealous of the president s successes and your successes in congress and yet look whats happening. I mean youre on house ways and means committee. You obviously been instrumental in terms of the jobs act. You were there working on the tax plan youve done so much in terms of moving the economy forward. What are the implications of this shutdown on the economy sir well im less concerned about the economy. I think the economy is robust and will snapback. Were really hurt so if youre that Service Member and an enlisted person out there defend ing this country what about the pay hike weve promised . What about just resources to fix pieces of equipment . We had another disaster over the weekend in the california desert in many ways the left has become heartless, is rage i understand rage may be a political philosophy for motivating for base but its really really bad Public Policy and i think the senate needs to come back from this and start acting rationally maria but congressman i get what youre saying and in many ways i agree with you but at the end of the day you guys are in charge and the left will say the republicans are running the executive office, the senate and the house, so how is it possible that you can blame anybody else except yourself . Well the fact of the matter is were not in charge when the senate has a filibuster rule. Where they must have now 10 folks on the left show up and help and that minority that those 10 democrats have to make a decision. Do they want to pander to their base or do whats good for the country. Maria do you think the American People will remember this come elections when those people are up in terms of voting against this . I mean because ill quote the wall street journal last week in an op ed basically saying it doesnt matter whose fault it is and if the senators on the democratic side do not want to see any more successes out of this administration the republicans will get blamed in the eyes of the American People. I desperately hope that isnt true. I actually see it a little more complicated. The country i believe is so polarized and we know the left is substantially on fire with their just their rage and hatred of the fact of the matter is republicans are being successful does this end up building the Republican Base to understand what obstructionists has become the left has become and does it start to create the enthusiasm of our base to actually show up in the 2018 election . Maria so thats what youre counting on the American People understanding the issues here that in fact this is not about policy, that they wanted everything thats in this bill anyway and yet they still dont want to come to the table because they really do want to just obstruct. Do you think the American People will figure that out . I think it may take a couple layers but if you were actually to look at my emails last night , even folks who were not thrilled with those who were on the more conservative side were just engaged of the delay of a sixyear extension on the chip, the childrens poor childrens healthcare, and i dont know how long the left, the democrat liberals can sustain that unless the pandering to their base is so important theyre willing to basically burn the place down. Maria are you willing to give on anything . Is your side willing to give, how long are you going to dig in well look its really an interesting question. What are we supposed to give . The continuing resolution had all of the things that had been articulated and it didnt actually have the rates of the military that so many of us desperately wanted so in many ways youre saying okay, what other sweeteners were we supposed to have in this one month continuing resolution, in many ways the left and the republicans we sort of came together and gave what was rational, so youre sort of negotiating with yourself here and its a serialtype negotiation for those who wanted the daca on the left side theres not a daca bill, so this is theatre. Maria wow you make a lot of important and interesting points congressman. When will you get to daca then . Oh, weve been actually working on daca for months and months. Theres a lot of us particularly being from a border state know we have to work out a solution on daca but actually want to see a more holistic approach dealing with an immigration system that maximizes economic expansion and fairness and our current immigration system doesnt do that, so it should be packaged together in sort of really substantive policy and i actually think those whose in the house here are very close to having that bill together. Maria well be watching the development sir thanks very much really laid it out so well and we appreciate your time. Thank you. Maria congressman there, when all is said and done, the panel is up next mary kisiel and ed rollins is up next as we look ahead on sunday morning futures were back in a minute. How do you win at business . Stay at la quinta. Where were changing with stylish makeovers. Then at your next meeting, set your seat height to its maximum level. Bravo, tall meeting man. Start winning today. Book now at lq. 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Democrats clearly want the political advantage of basically appealing to hispanic voters the Fastest Growing group in america and by being on the side of the daca kids or whoever else are going to do on immigration is going to give them a benefit so theyre not going to give up. Maria its still about the voters. What do you think . Democrats would not be shutting down government unless they thought it was to their political advantage to eds point and they see no reason to think otherwise. Look maria its part of a trend. They didnt participate in the healthcare reform discussions, they didnt participate in the biggest tax reform since 1986, they decided that theyre not going to participate in good faith Immigration Reform and unfortunately, if youve got the press in your pocket if you look at how republicans were route the in november in january they just won a state senate seat in wisconsin they think that this policy of just resisting everything that trump does is to their advantage and you know, well see if theyre right. Maria i dont think so. Lets look at the facts in terms of what this means for the military. Military is 50 of its aircraft are down for maintenance because of lack of spare parts. Pilots are flying less than half of the flying hours required to maintain proficiency only five of the armys 58 brigades are ready for combat and at the end of the day it looks like every service chief has told the congress that the u. S. Military is at risk in winning at high end conflicts, ed . With two major destroyers destroyed the fitzgerald and mccain. 17 men killed because they were not certified. The manpower is stretched so thin that they basically cant function effectively and thats not fair to the young men and women we put on our planes and our ships and i think to a certain extent we need to fix this and fix it quick. But maria i think the Republican Party makes this debate between Interest Groups, its the military versus immigrants. Maria i think thats what democrats you dont want that right . Want republicans to do. Maria what is the core dispute here . The core dispute is a dispute over the rule of law. President obama did something unconstitutional for the dreamer s. President trump says lets do this the right way, if we want to legalize them in some form, we have to do it through congress and the normal procedure. Thats what democrats are opposed to here. Thats the core dispute that they dont want to adhere to the rule of law. Republicans should be making that argument, that appeals to everybody. If you Start Playing this divisive Interest Group politics that plays in. Maria such an important point and nobody made that point. I read it on twitter what you said actually and that needs to be communicated. It does but we should not underestimate the group and im not for interest politics either but the group that is suffering the most maria is the military. Our military is out there on the line every single day and the country isnt going to go to heck. Its the daca for another six months or whatever. We need a Major Overhaul of our immigration. Its been 1986 with the last time it happened equally as important we had a major rule change in the United States senate. Maria yeah. If were going to sit here with 60 votes meaning we have to have 10 democrats every time youll have a vote they can stop everything this president wants to do everything in the Congress Wants to do. Maria so will that ever change the filibuster rule . Well i dont know republicans dont like it now because they are in the majority and dont want the minority to have that kind of power and at some point the republicans will want that when theyre in the minority but just a quick point on daca and the democrats. If they truly cared about these people when they would come to the table in good faith and negotiate separately from the budget. Theyre not doing that. Its the ultimate politics of sinicism. They say they want to help but in reality theyre not doing everything. Maria they want everything in there while they have one little opening. The only counter id make to that is the country is frustrated by the inability of congress to function. Maria for sure. I dont care what the old rules may have been. It used to be a twothirds vote and filibuster was there to basically block civil rights legislation and now the American Public if you elected Republican Congress you expect them to do something if democrats get elected then they get to do something and now nobody can do anything. Maria but look back at other Government Shutdowns and tell us the implications. The last one was 13 days. Well i think it basically makes the American Public think their government cant function if you cant pass a budget which is the fundamental tourist not the hardship alone on the people its just the disarray that the country sees every single day and they lose confidence in our ability to govern ourselves. I think schumer is wagering that the president doesnt have the political leverage to exert pressure on his base and on independence and look, if you look at the recent wall street journal poll numbers, he has reason to believe that. President Approval Rating is at 39 granted people are feeling better about the economy thats at a 17year high those poll numbers thats terrific but again this is about politics for the democrats. Its the politics and sinicism its not about working in the national interest. We need to think about policy not politics. Maria i think you make a really good point by saying its the rule of law. Its the rule of law and Immigration Law has basically changed by the congress and signed by the president and they dont have the votes to do that its not going to happen. Maria well take a break and come back more on the rule of law Sticking Point including immigration and border security. Where do those talks stand right now, more with the panel as we look ahead on sunday morning futures stay with us. Its easy to think that all Money Managers are pretty much the same. But while some push High Commission investment products, Fisher Investments avoids them. Some advisers have hidden and layered fees. 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Exactly what the democratic leadership wanted in the face of all of the successes for President Trump whether it be economic or isis being defeated they wanted to make a stink on the one year anniversary. They dont want the whole President Trump and congressional delegation representing america in davos, switzerland happening next week and of course a week later the state of the union address. Well just as you see polls starting to give republicans some advantage based on the or at least closing the gap based on the tax bill as people start to see its going to work, you cloud the story. The whole story now is about this and why cant they run a government, why cant they do x, y, and z and if they can stay on to the president s state of the union speech nobody will care what he says and thats the speech he has to set the tone and agenda for the next year. Maria thats a scary thing that no one is going to care what he has to say because the government has been shut for awakened a half and it could happen because the last one went for 13 days i just wonder mary the long term implications in terms of the voting public. I feel personally people are on to the obstructionism and they know in fact this is not about policy any more but do you agree with that . Well, look, i tend to think that republicans always get blamed for the shutdowns. I think in 2013, they were to blame for the shutdown. This shutdown of course theyre not because Chuck Schumer and the democrats are filibustering but look, democrats are going to go out and say look the republicans have majorities in both houses its all of them banking on the fact that voters wont know about that filibuster rule in the senate and understand that its schumer and the democrats that are actually to blame but look, trumps way to win is to have policy victor ies. He had policy victory in the tax plan. He should come again and explain to the American People what he wants to do clearly on Immigration Reform. Thats been one of the problems here maria. Republicans dont feel like they know exactly where the president stands and they dont feel like hes behind them, so democrats feel that they can take advantage of that and thats what Chuck Schumer is doing. But the problem is no matter what happens here, the longer it goes on the more difficult it is to have any agenda the democrats have proven they can stop any agenda item that wants to move forward for the remainder of this year and thats a very bad place. Might as well go home because you cant get into infrastructure reform or anything they now know they can basically force on the filibuster rule of the senate keep everything from happening. Maria theres nothing the republicans can do about that. Accept change the rules. Yeah, but look we need Immigration Reform. 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