when he said i ll keep it closed for a month or a year, i think he weirdly meant it. it s the hill he s chosen to die on. the one he signalled he would die on when he made the wall a center piece of his campaign. but you ve got at the beginning of this hour which is that you showed that republicans in congress have always thought this was a dumb idea. and they came around to it only out of partisan loyalty, partisan necessity. but this is ultimately about trump s relationship to his base, not about his relationship to his party and certainly not about law makers relationship to their constituents. and the question is how separable all those relationships are. the abiding theory is, as benjamin franklin said, we mustang together or surely we will hang separately. we ll see if that holds as we keep going.
when mitch mcconnell starts hearing from the senators. i got this irs senator in my district. there are 5,000 people not getting paychecks this week. i ve got a homeland security office in my district or my state. another thousand people aren t getting paid. that s when the rubber hits the road i think. you spoke to this is it s always the cases that doesn t effect trump. he s where he s always been. it s like all the sudden there s a high pitch noise in the room and everyone s like oh, my god and there s one person who can t hear it. and trump s like i don t hear anything. and that is what we re looking at here. trump can care less. when he said i ll keep it closed for a month or a year, i think he weirdly meant it. it s the hill he s chosen to die on. the one he signalled he would die on when he made the wall a center piece of his campaign. but you ve got at the beginning