Galaxies when politics, media and the courts are drawn into an existential battle over the white house, the hill, the supremes, donald trump, joe biden, hunter biden and, well, the american way of life. Its the ultimate drama for the main stream media which have practically created Opposition Camps in this president ial election year. Looming over the landscape is the nations highest court which agreed to hear trumps appeal on the crucial question of president ial immunity. Shannon if bream ahead on that. Many in the media see this as the right way to settle such a weighty question while many others in the media are calling this a Stall Thing Tactic to delay the January 6th Case past the election. Its all a been fast and furious. Illinois has become the third state to kick trump off the ballot, and were waiting for a Supreme Court ruling on that. And given the con. Census that this is a consensus that this is a very bad and undemocratic idea, i dont know why scotus isnt moving faster.
pulling the rug out from under him. mitch mcconnell and let s play chuck schumer on sunday why would mitch mcconnell bring anything to the floor that is not signed off on, and how would you say, in blood? that s what you meant to say about mcconnell. leader mcconnell who is a good he s gotten the country out of some other shutdowns in the past is totally ducking. he was burnt because he stuck out his neck. it s up to leader mcconnell to step up to the plate here. i understand his reluctance, but there s greater good here. you and i have covered previous shutdowns. i ve never seen the vice president of the united states negotiating with house and senate staff members. it s unbelievable, honestly, andrea. this is not how this is not how problems like this get solved. no one in that room was empowered to make any final decision about reopening the
nancy pelosi, and also mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer, kevin mccarthy met with the vice-president, omb, him staffers. with all due respect to hill staffers, some of my best friends are hill staffers. that s the way it was set up. jeff, your reporting, they wanted him to be seen doing something. and add fog that, the president, when we were talking to him on the south lawn said, yes, i m very involved, but only with the principals. so that sort of suggests that he doesn t see in this case didn t see the vice-president as one of the principals. jeff mason, thank you. bill crystal and, of course, vaughn hillyard in colorado. chilly colorado. we ll be right back. l be right . you should be mad your neighbor always wants to hang out. and you should be mad your smart fridge is unnecessarily complicated. but you re not mad, because you have e trade which isn t complicated. their tools make trading quicker and simpler.
his base, a shrinking base. nonetheless, a base on the wall. the house democrats are going to pass the appropriations bills. what about the republican senators? i really do think they are going to come under increasing pressure and be increasingly reminded they re not supposed to go there and duck out of the whole discussion, or rubber stamp whatever donald trump wants. the democrats, the house the house is going to pass these appropriations bills one by one. what is mitch mcconnell s position, we re not taking them up? they are kind of an equal part of the legislature and the legislature is an equal part of the government. aren t they supposed to give us a sense aren t they supposed to do something? bill crystal, you tweeted this weekend, i once worked for a republican president. he met with congress and staff. that was a most bizarre weekend you two have seen this, too. if you ve been in the white house for something, maybe these rules are protocol, old-fashioned, the world
neither side is doing that right now. both sides are playing to their base. the president to the border and the democrats in opposition of president trump and there s no incentive for either group to come together right now. look, senator mcconnell and senator schumer could come to an agreement and end the shutdown like that. it s done. this is not a hard problem and the question is finding a will to move something to the house and signed into law by president trump. we should point out that what the speaker did last week was to re-approve everything that the senate backed them that they re not going to take it up again without the president s say so. let s not lose sight of the fact that the house democrats is putting republican bills on the house. it s basically their first act to try to re-open government. that is not a small thing and many republicans, you can t even get them to admit, well, yeah. i would have voted for that if a republican speaker had put it on the floor, wh