The wall. I believe mexico will pay for the wall. I have a Good Relationship with mexico. Were negotiating nafta. In some form mexico will pay for the wall. But mexico will not pay for the wall and that is why the American Government is on the verge of a shutdown. Donald trump humiliated himself to everyone with a High School Level understanding of government when he first said mexico will pay for the wall. And then he got personally humiliated on the telephone with the president of mexico when the president of mexico told him he would not pay for the wall. To which the president of the United States said, you cannot say that to the press. If you are going to say that, mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then i do not want to meet with you guys anymore, because i cannot live with that. There was the great negotiator the trump voters put in the white house. The great tough guy the trump
country that kind of power. What if his Campaign Speech had been, we will build a wall and i wil
he s trying to hold the vote open till tomorrow because he thinks it will put more pressure on them. this is a manufactured shutdown by the republicans. here is the most extraordinary thing i have ever heard a senate leader say in a situation like this. here s mitch mcconnell saying tonight on the senate floor that he does not know what the president wants. let s listen to this. the presidency, under our constitutional system is not irrelevant. he s the person who signs things into law. and for most of us in the house and senate on the republican side, we re interested in what his views are. and those have not been made fully apparent yet. that s a moment we have never seen in a situation like this before. and we ve never seen a president have an affair with a porn star either. so these are weeks and days of firsts, i suppose. but it is presenting a few
interesting and difficult kwu quandaries for lawmakers on the hill. this morning the president tweeted that he didn t want a six year c.h.i.p. extension, which was news to everyone in washington d.c. because that s what the republican strategy has been and is for funding the government. what we were reporting today is that it threw things momentarily into utter chaos on the hill. where republicans are to check if the bill they were attaching the entire government funding operation to would end up being vetoed by the president. that s a peculiar thing to have to inquire about 48 hours before the government shuts down. so he s creating a lot of problems for the process and it doesn t make mitch mcconnell s life easier or chuck schumer s life easier.
for more, we re joined by frank thorp. the senate opens for business at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. what happens then? we ll figure out who blinks first, to be honest. we re in a situation senate democrats hope to bring republicans to the table, hoping to bring president trump to the table to negotiate something on daca but this is something senator mcconnell said repeatedly doesn t need to be addressed until march. senat senator mcelderconnell doesn t believe that. we expected a vote tonight, that this short-term continuing resolution that includes this funding for the chip program for the children health insurance program, but doesn t include anything for the d.r.e.a.m.e.r.s. and daca recipients. mcconnell pushed it until
do we know whether the president is going to florida at the request of mitch mcconnell and paul ryan in the belief that this can only work with him out of town? you know, mitch mcconnell, as this gets to be longer and longer days and they keep talking and talking about this and it s not getting resolved and they keep trying to get the democrats to cave on the dreamers. mitch mcconnell keeps talking about he has no idea what the president wants. so it would be helpful if he knew what the president wants, but he has no clue. the president doesn t understand the significance of the majority leader saying that. one fact is, no republican leader in history has ever stood on the senate floor and said, i don t know what the republican president wants. you won t find that in the congressional record anywhere. the reason they use the shutdown willy nilly, i think