over the christmas holiday. he wasn t negotiating with anybody. rick: there was no one there to negotiate with. but there is no plan. the president has hasn t issued plans for the what he plans to do to get the wall funding. i want this $5 billion or bust. that s not how you negotiate. here is what i m willing to put on a table. a fix for daca on the table for $5 billion. what the president is doing here is saying i want this $5 billion. give it to me or i m going to shut down the government. that s where would are. and beverly is right. this worked for his base. sadly his base is a small majority of the american people. and that is why republicans were trounced in the midterm elections. the terms of this niece negotiations is only going to get worse for republicans and the president. rick: gets worse from both sides. demonstrating is he not budging at least not yet. beverly, how long before pressure might shift to the new house majority. let s be clear that democrats are not b
team. he wasn t negotiating with us. we were there engaged in so how do you move the ball forward? look, we were there to discuss what we need to do to ensure that we protect the american people who want rising wages and safe streets. that is a very worthy reason to get together. we were building a strategy to get border security outcomes that the president ran onment i think there are senate democrats who are interested in solutions like the bridge act, like tps, who might be willing to come on board with a robust border security package with a physical barrier, with a wall or whatever you want to call it, and i think that s ultimately our path to success. we re never going to get nancy pelosi, but i think we can with a few democrats. called the wall childish, he said it was surrender and it wouldn t be effective. listen. by the way, the the bottom line is that doesn t stop anybody who really wants to get across. you go under, around, through. that s what the ranchers tell
a former secretary of state is literally unheard of. chris: congresswoman harmon, did john kerry do anything wrong? i don t think so. the logan act has to do with directly negotiating with a foreign power when you re not an employee or authorized by the united states to do so. he wasn t negotiating. he was taking meetings. my understanding is that he informed our government. i m not sure where, that he was taking the meeting and he gave them the summary of what happened at the meeting. i think he has a right as a private citizen to meet with whomever he wants to, but i don t think i think i understand why mike pompeo is upset because this is a tricky moment for the administration and i think they i personally think they wrongly pulled out of the deal, but i don t think that kerry crossed a red line in any way. i want to say one thing about that letter, chris, if i could, and that is chris: the kavanaugh letter. the kavanaugh letter and that
unauthorized american citizen with negotiating with a foreign government? , chris hahn? he wasn t negotiating. did the president get together with john kerry to sell more books? he has done more for john kerry s book sales than if he had gone on every show around the country. judge jeanine: the logan act prohibits an unauthorized american citizen from negotiating with a foreign government. what s he doing with the prime minister of iran? the logan act is crap. no one has been successfully prosecuted using the logan act in the history of the united states. the logan act was the predicate for going after lieutenant general mike flynn when sally yates was the deputy attorney general. so chris cannot have it both ways.
a former secretary of state is literally unheard of. chris: congresswoman harmon, did john kerry do anything wrong? i don t think so. the logan act has to do with directly negotiating with a foreign power when you re not an employee or authorized by the united states to do so. he wasn t negotiating. he was taking meetings. my understanding is that he informed our government. i m not sure where, that he was taking the meeting and he gave them the summary of what happened at the meeting. i think he has a right as a private citizen to meet with whomever he wants to, but i don t think i think i understand why mike pompeo is upset because this is a tricky moment for the administration and i think they i personally think they wrongly pulled out of the deal, but i don t think that kerry crossed a red line in any way. i want to say one thing about that letter, chris, if i could, and that is chris: the kavanaugh letter. the kavanaugh letter and that