and if they didn t think they could benefit because trump is so unpopular, he s high 30s. well, there is that yesterday was not about the shutdown. yesterday was about a year of more than a year, a whole presidential election. imagine if chuck schumer hadn t held his ground with all those people marching across the country. for a political reason, it s also the right thing to do. that s where democrats are coming down here. there is another issue, it may be part of trump s first year and the way he s changed washington. i would say the shutdown rhetoric has been defining the dnc down, as our friend mr. money han would say. peggy, i d love you to tee off on this. lindsey graham calling tom cotton, tom cotton shooting back. oh, yeah, you weren t at the kit kiddy table in the debates. an official press called senators losers, legislators. nancy pelosi with the bowl of doggy doo. oh, my gosh, that was awful. the point is it s all awful
credit though, but republican incumbents hope that optimism will protect them in november. it s the economy, stupid. did you ever hear that one? joining me now is the president s chief congressional negotiator these days marc short. marc, welcome back to meet the press. you re becoming a very familiar face i think to folks this weekend. thanks for having me back, chuck. where s the president? i say this because we didn t see him yesterday. didn t make a single public appearance. one thing about candidate trump, as we pointed out there a lot, he seemed to be the guy who says he was going to make washington work differently. washington looks exactly the way it did before he got into yesterday. why was he yesterday and why wasn t he involved in this? the president was involved, he was speaking to leader mcconnell and ryan and leader mccarthy. republican, republican, republican, no schumer, no pelosi. he met with senator schumer on friday and that was well publicized and he