ann colter tweets that she doesn t like it and he backs down. the way to proceed is to open the government. stop holding 800,000 people hostage. comprehensive immigration reform is wildly complicated rk, very tough to do. this is not the way to negotiate it. it s not only daca and asylum seekers and border protection. it s not where is the fence needed. it s so many things that are intertwined. to hold 800,000 people hostage just for the wall is just unreasonable. open up the government and let s have a real conversation about how to get comprehensive immigration reform done. to be fair, because you have the president and nancy pelosi digging their heels in on their positions. the democrats position is we will negotiate but you got to open the government first.
congressman from the state of california. right before we came back from break, a couple tweets from the president. let me use one to tee up my first question to you if i could. quote, nancy pelosi and some of the democrats turned down my offer yesterday before i even got up to speak, he writes. they don t see crime and drugs, they only see 2020 which they are not going to win. best economy exclamation mark. they should do the right thing and allow people to get back to work. let me ask you first of all, if anything from what the president proposed yesterday is something that you could consider. what do you make of what he offered yesterday in the diplomatic room? thanks for having me today. first of all, let me say day 30 of shutdown, this president said he would be proud to own it. we just have to get back to work. i m ask position the president please stop holding 800,000 workers hostage. get government back to work. get folks back their paychecks. and then let s start to