president, someone told him building a wall would who was that? roger stone. build the wall, build the wall. gets him to the white house and he kind of abandons that idea, he cold house, the congress, the senate, the white house. thement meninute it started to away and the washington post had a piece that said trump backs away from wall promise, he hears from ann coulter and he had to remember what it was to be a conservative, we re here with the president on the press mi precipice of seizing powers and changing the presidency. and lindsey graham wants to rewrite the constitution to do
particularly who are very angry with him backing down on his wall promise. people like anne colter and others, that he s tried his best in a system that needs to be changed and the democrats and the press are making it all impossible. and he s standing by his principles and he ll do everything he can. i mean, i can see trump arguing that fairly effectively. and steven, finally the question as to whether the president will be invited to give his state of the union address. do you feel the speaker of the house is under pressure to now grant that invitation, or does that also continue to be held up here given all the uncertainty? well, that s a good question. i mean, i m not sure. my guess is it would be a very good gesture. this is my personal view. if nancy pelosi would let this happen in this three-week period. it is the tradition, and it
announcement. blasting trump as a, quote, wimp for caving and admitting he broke his wall promise. crazy that i expect the president to keep the promise he made every day for 18 months. you re finding out he is a lying con man. what was your first clue? okay, i m a very stupid girl. fine. some conservatives on fox news say it looks like trump s false pledges on the wall came from the wrong place, that he cared too much about people in the media criticizing him while lou dobbs says that reality shows trump s false pledge led him to a wiping from pelosi. i think the president cares way too much about people in the media. there are times when you have leverage. there are times you don t. and that was a time in which he did not he did not have maximum leverage. i mean, she has just whipped the president of the united states, but you ve got to call it as it is. this president says it was going to be conditional border security building that wall, and
president, we can figure this out at the negotiating table. stop hurting people. this helps the democrats. i am a single mom. my son just graduated his first two years of college. he s going back. i m not getting paid. i just bought a house. i m not going to be able to pay my mortgage. so, yes, this is affecting me personally. other people are married, they do have another income. i do not. why do you keep coming into work? we ll see on friday. that s my answer, friday. a lot of people, not just the president. the president going into 2020, he wants to get back to his board wall promise. there are a lot of other republicans who just went through a tough midterm year. getting them to crack is my question. i think for the democrats, this is the easier part of the equation for tonight. it is going to be very straightforward to put these stories out there, to make it
terrorists at the southern border. and we look at how aoc is trolling the gop. but we start with president trump s pr offensive on his broken wall promise. trump scrambling with democrats, standing tough, and more signs republicans are cracking on day 17 of the trump shutdown. trump announcing today he will address the nation from the oval office for the first time tomorrow, and he will visit the border on thursday, saying it is a humanitarian and national security crisis. this is a crisis for trump s wall talking points, and the rush limbaugh base he was scared by. here are the fax. a homeland security chart showing the number of apprehensions of undocumented immigrants at the southern border. you can see a massive decline over 18 years when 11% jump between 2017 and last year. in the last eight years, we ve seen some of the lowest numbers in history. now trump is shifting his posture on the wall. watch this.