Politically, from that statement, this white house thinks and well see whether theyre right or not, they can weather the political storm from a Government Shutdown by saying were not negotiating until schumer backs down. They think inside the white house from my conversations with senior officials there, that Chuck Schumer overplayed his hand on daca and they are going to push back here and say we gave you six years of an extension, a long time for Childrens Health insurance, a program, chip as its known that, democrats said they had to have. The president gave on that. Said hes willing to work on daca. The bottom line is, this white house is taking a very hard line in these negotiations. Shannon sounds like it from that statement. All right, ed henry live on the beat for us, thank you. The president foreshadowing a shutdown a short while ago, tweeting, quote, its not looking good. White house correspondent kevin cork joins us with where the white house goes next. Youre right. It was i
but the one reason we are where we are is because we couldn t close out any of these other component parts because our friends on the other side said you got to deal with this issue. this issue is the key to getting defense spending. this issue is the key to getting help for s-chip kids. on and on and on. i think most of american people believe that shutting down the government over this issue which doesn t even ripen until march, is irresponsible. and i ve just listed all of the people who are going to be adversely impacted by this action. so we re going to keep on voting and the government may be heading into shutdown but the senate isn t shutting down. and we re open to talk. and to resolve this.
but the one reason we are where we are is because we couldn t close out any of these other component parts because our friends on the other side said you got to deal with this issue. this issue is the key to getting defense spending. this issue is the key to getting help for s-chip kids. on and on and on. i think most of american people believe that shutting down the government over this issue which doesn t even ripen until march, is irresponsible. and i ve just listed all of the people who are going to be adversely impacted by this action. so we re going to keep on voting and the government may be heading into shutdown but the senate isn t shutting down. and we re open to talk. and to resolve this.
but the one reason we are where we are is because we couldn t close out any of these other component parts because our friends on the other side said you got to deal with this issue. this issue is the key to getting defense spending. this issue is the key to getting help for s-chip kids. on and on and on. i think most of american people believe that shutting down the government over this issue which doesn t even ripen until march, is irresponsible. and i ve just listed all of the people who are going to be adversely impacted by this action. so we re going to keep on voting and the government may be heading into shutdown but the senate isn t shutting down. and we re open to talk. and to resolve this.
we are is because we couldn t close out any of these other component parts because our friends on the other side said you got to deal with this issue. this issue is the key to getting defense spending. this issue is the key to getting help for s-chip kids. on and on and on. i think most of american people believe that shutting down the government over this issue which doesn t even ripen until march, is irresponsible. and i ve just listed all of the people who are going to be adversely impacted by this action. so we re going to keep on voting and the government may be heading into shutdown but the senate isn t shutting down. and we re open to talk. and to resolve this.