in the congress, democrats applauded him on multiple occasions.he issue is as long as he has those types of speeches, everything goes well. but when he gets back to the white house and gets back to his fallen, he tweets lots of things that stalks controversies. he has a good night one night, but most of his presidency has not been marked

. >> when i came to congress, there were 23 women in the congress. 12 democrats, 11 republicans. now we have 65 democratic women and the number is growing. and this year, it will increase even more. and that will make a difference

any challenge and that they are the reason why the president is calling upon all members of congress democrats and republicans to work together because these are the people as the president said who we are elected to serve and that's the key so it was a good start however i would say that the president missed the opportunity to really offer a concrete compromise that democrats could agree on yet there were a lot of positives that the president put in the speech the themes the issues that many would say would have been the negatives were noticeably absent from his speech let's talk about the what he included and that of course is the good news about the economy he spent well over half an hour talking about the u.s. economy it was just take a listen to a little bit of what he had to say. since the election we have created two point four million new jobs. to each including two hundred thousand new jobs in manufacturing alone thank you. so alexandra i mean he was really trying to drive home to the american public that now is the time to feel good about yourselves again particularly because your pa

he talks about what is ahead for congress, democrats picking over the house, and congress is relationship with donald trump. newsmakers is this morning at 10 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> sera vers reports on appropriations and joins us to talk about budget talks and the government funding deadline. sarah, what is the status of the talks at this point?

how the judge's order will affect talks between the house and both parties in congress. >> democrats had been demanding a deal on daca in order to vote for government funding, so the question now is whether this temporary reprieve is enough for democrats to back off the threat of a government shutdown. >> before the ruling president trump was holding the line on twitter saying a border wall must be part of any daca deal. that does not square with his remarks at that bipartisan white house meeting earlier in the day. >> this should be a bipartisan bill. this would be a bill of love. if we do this properly, daca, you're not so far away from comprehensive immigration reform and if you want to take it that further step i'll take the heat. that doesn't mean 2,000 miles of wall because you just don't need that because of mountains and rivers and lots of other things, but we need a certain portion of that border to have the wall. >> a certain portion. that is not what the president has said before. >> in the event that daca does remain a sticking point, yesterday's extraordinary session at t

is certainly set out to achieve that but given the fact that there were members of congress democratic members of congress who boycotted the speech given the fact that there were democratic members of congress sitting there in black to protest some of the president's policies particularly when it comes to sexual harassment and perhaps that he has not been says that have enough to that even been accused of that himself given the fact that there were protests outside while the president was talking it was a big challenge for this president to try and one speech heal the divisions of the last year and even of the twenty sixteen presidential campaign he certainly tried to achieve that but sammy i don't think that it was something that he was able to accomplish given the fact that we had the democratic response immediately afterward with the democrats characterize donald trump and his policies essentially bullying ordinary americans so well donald trump tried to hit the high notes in terms of the accomplishments he's done to improve the lives of working class americans particularly when it

well as you saw there's been no shortage of blaming each other on the floor of congress democrats blaming republicans republicans blaming democrats all saying that it's the other party's fall. that the government is shut down however people are excited hoping that we will have a two week reprieve that message that you just heard is no longer on the answering machine now there's been an interesting international reaction to the government shutdown chinese state media ran an interesting article observing the government shutdown and saying that it was an indicator of what they called a spirit of non-cooperation in washington d.c. and said it was a slap in the face to donald trump now they went on to point out that donald trump seems to undone all the major policy initiatives of his predecessor and from there they went on to say that you know around the world the western countries tend to hold up the u.s. political system as an icon say this is the ideal political system the ideal system of government however it seems to not have the ability to swiftly move into action and solve problems and

do a pose to pose congress especially democrats he does that even with other cases we can remember what happened with within or north korea where he during the campaign was saying that he was ready to meet president came and than made some very harsh statements over twitter. when he was in office but then again now we see a new readiness so when he is not pressured he behaves quite differently.

, the democrats in congress, the president, republican donald trump in the white house from seeing things fall apart. senate minority leader, schumer to the white house where he said he put money for the wall, something democrats have been opposed to on the table for a deal. a deal that would never come. furious lobbying, after the government shutdown, into saturday morning on the senate floor in live view for everyone, no resolution and one clear fact, things are going to get worse before they get better. instead of trying to figure out the pathway forward, republicans and democrats framing who is to blame. for senator schumer, there's one answer. >> every american knows the republican party controls the white house, the senate, the house. it's their job to keep the government open. it's their job to work with us on a way to move things forward. but they didn't reach out to us once on this cr. no discussion. no debate. nothing at all. it was produced without an ounce of democratic input and dropped on our laps. >> reporter: for republicans, it'

>> all right, so, yeah, a lot of news this week about republicans retiring in congress, democrats gettingget excited in general when they hear that? well, they suspect a wave election might be coming in 2018. if it is and you get rid of a popular republican incumbent and you replace it with a wide-open, open-seat race, that advantage could suddenly go to the democrats, more specifically, though, let's take a look at it this way. there are a couple of tiers of targets, seats that democrats are really looking at to try to win back the house this year. let's take them in three different groups here and start with this. what you have here, there's 23 districts that fit this criteria. these are districts where republicans currently represent them. these are republican seats, but each one of these districts you see here in the presidential election in 2016 it went for hillary clinton. so, obviously, democrats think, look, these are districts we should be able to carry in a trump midterm. so, democrats, of course, need their magic number is 24, a net need 246 to win back the house. the news that

talking about more substantive -- >> those things could be on hold if you have a conflicted congress >> democrats are not anti-infrastructure. this is a -- it is a bipartisan issue and i think no one would say we don't have to either upgrade infrastructure or put more people to work. >> my point is if you are in a closed government with prolonged overly partisan battle about simile keeping government operateding with it simply delays d delays discussion. >> i think you're right but i think we're already in that situation in everything except actual name. i think we have been in prolong got shut down with nothing getting done for years and years and no cooperation whatsoever. >> you have a thought on that as well >> i think the fear of democrats taking congress is going to be an issue as we get later in the year everything is based on the republicans being able to eliminate regulation and big tax reform bill. but they will make the president's life a living heck if they get in office and that's going to be a big problem for the president. >> you think the market would have an issue if that happene

against government waste president thomas schatz about the possibility of returning earmarks to congress. democrats can call (202) 748-8000, republicans, (202) 748-8001, and independents, (202) 748-8002. you mentioned speaker ryan. this week, he sat down with steve scully and talked about earmarks. >> i was one of the guys who authored the ban on earmarks. among our frustration members that the responsibility of the person has been ceded to the executive branch to bring much. i have concerns about the old had,armark process we which i helped stop. i do believe there is a concern about having more legislative branch oversight on how the executive branch spends money. we have got to make sure we do not go back to porkbarrel spending. >> do you wonder if earmarks came back, it could hurt the numbers in the house? >> no, i worry it will lead to porkbarrel spending and bad government. host: your reaction? guest: thank you, mr. speaker, for making the same point we are making. i worked with him many years ago. the president's cabinet, the vice president, attorney general sessions, and others who have ser

well as you saw there's been no shortage of blaming each other on the floor of congress democrats blaming republicans republicans blaming democrats all saying that it's the other party's fault that the government is shut down however people are excited hoping that we will have a two week reprieve that message that you just heard is no longer on the answering machine now there's been an interesting international reaction to the government shutdown chinese state media ran an interesting article observing the government shutdown and saying that it was an indicator of what they called a spirit of non-cooperation in washington d.c. and said it was a slap in the face to donald trump now they went on to point out that donald trump seems to undone all the major policy initiatives of his predecessor and from there they went on to say that you know around the world the western countries tend to hold up the u.s. political system as an icon say this is the ideal political system the ideal system of government however it seems to not have the ability to swiftly move into action and solve problems and

democrats and the president. it was about immigration, a very divisive issue when it comes to congress, an area where it's not just democrats and republicans, it's intraparty at a number of levels. republicans say they have until march to deal with that issue, but you want to put a calendar on it democrats have made clear they want that addressed in the same time line as the budget deal which has that january 19th deadline. the president is a huge player in this. now, president trump in that meeting at the white house said that he was willing to sign anything that congress came up with. he was willing to leave it to congress to figure out the direction forward. that is not what republican leaders want to hear. that's not the discussion republican leaders have had with the white house. they know because this issue is so complicated within their conference it's so difficult that they need the president not just to sign whatever they agree to, but to endorse it and to help them push forward on it. there are still senate bipartisan negotiations. president trump has laid out principles that he wants addressed. democrat

government look the president's republican the republicans have majorities in both houses of congress democrats are perfectly confident they can put the blame on the republicans for not being able to do what they were elected to do namely keep the government open and so as we're talking to bill we're seeing pictures of the majority leader mitch mcconnell talking on the floor that i mean is it likely they can still find some kind of temporary deal that satisfies the democrats on immigration i mean many experts say this is a problem of tromso making. yeah well it's going to be difficult to make that deal because the democrats feel empowered by this they did take a stand on the immigration issue and actually most americans sympathize with the democratic position that young people who were brought to the united states as illegal immigrants when they were children should be allowed to remain in the united states that's something that's going to be very difficult for republicans to attack so the immigration issue while it's central to the shutdown most americans will simply see it as a failure of gov

government look the presidents republican the republicans have majorities in both houses of congress democrats are perfectly confident they can put the blame on the republicans for not being able to do what they were elected to do namely keep the government open the democrats feel empowered by this to get to christine on the immigration issue and actually most americans sympathize with the democratic position that young people who were brought to the united states as illegal immigrants when they were children should be allowed to remain in the united states that's something that's going to be very difficult for republicans to attack so the immigration issue is central to the shutdown most americans will simply see it as a failure of governance and more and more evidence that the united states is becoming ungovernable taki is mobilizing thousands of free syrian army rebels on its border with syria i would take it in a convoy of buses as part of a military operation against syrian kaddish fight is known as the y.p. g. and the syrian town of a plane he calls them a terrorist group the army is int

government look the presidents republican the republicans have majorities in both houses of congress democrats are perfectly confident they can put the blame on the republicans for not being able to do what they were elected to do namely keep the government open the democrats feel empowered by this they did take a stand on the immigration issue and actually most americans sympathize with the democratic position that young people who were brought to the united states as illegal immigrants when they were children should be allowed to remain in the united states that's something that's going to be very difficult for republicans to attack so the immigration issue while it's central to the shutdown most americans will simply see it as a failure of governance and more and more evidence that the united states is becoming ungovernable. u.s. vice president mike pence is on his way to the middle east for a three day trip to discuss moving the american embassy in israel to jerusalem u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital provoked international anger. that egypt and jordan spent two days

unacceptable, disappointing millions. >> [indiscernible] to do in thise moment is demand that congress do their job. democrat and senates basha democrats and senate, step up. you already saw the movement. been negotiations taking place over the last several weeks. the president and i are few more that within a weeks, we can solve the issues related to the budget. we can resolve issues related to the border wall, chain migration, diversity lottery, daca. now is the time for us to

republicans are retiring from congress. democratsve an accelerating chance of picking up the congress and they are trying to fight back by saying i'm going to help you, including with that claim that as ali pointed out is silly, this was a tax cut for family farmers because of what happened on the estate tax. >> corporations are clearly very happy and they should be. i'm not arguing that they shouldn't because of this tax cut. we are seeing some bonuses from some companies across the board. speak to us about the volume and the benefit for shareholders all these have been in the last month. the president and his sons again like to take credit or they like to give the administration credit for the stock market soaring but one of the things that's really pushed these stocks up are share buy backs and companies are able to do share buy backs when they are flush with cash when they get a big tax cut. >> exactly right. one of the debates before the tax bill passed was whether or not companies were going to invest in expansion in hiring new

lap as more than 30 democratic senators join all republicans in a vote to end the three-day shutdown. the house voting moments ago to end the impasse. the deal was done in congress and it was done by senators. that's who made the deal. the president was silent. today president trump only issued a brief statement which said in part, quote, i am pleased the democrats in congress have come to their senses and now willing to fund our great military, border patrol, first responders and insurance for vulnerable children. the short term spending deal came after mitch mcconnell, declared his quote, intention. intention to hold a debate on the dreamers in the come weeks. that's it. intention to hold a debate in a few weeks. there's no formal mechanism to force him to do this. some progressives are livid saying chuck schumer caved. he will bring the issue to the floor. is that a victory? why will republicans work with democrats on this issue when they have not done so before. the president's point of view on the dreamer issue and the immigration is to link immigrants to murder. here is his ad released this weekend. >> president trump is right. build the wall, deport crimi

congress. the democrats in the senate could end the shutdown today. what is the plan? >> we plan mostly day at a time. there are different things on the horizon. for example, we have a pay period on friday that would be a goal post but we manage this day by day. the funds i mentioned, some agencies are sitting on quite a lot of carryforward funds. some have none, so they will be impacted immediately. >> is the president still going to go to davos monday morning if the government is shutdown? >> the president will not be going to florida now. davos are taking dvos -- on a day to day basis. there has been talk among democrats of cuts issues. if democrats agree on this short-term cr, why should democrats think thye --they should trust the president? >> we should step back where we provided what congress asked for and refined it again. --re has been some question senator schumer said there's lack of clarity with what the white house is asking for. i do not think there is lack of clarity. your are the principles we set -- here are the principles we sent in september. here a

yes, congress is looking awful. the democrats got hurt today. but really the president of the united states said in front of everybody with live tv cameras he wanted to do a daca deal. >> he's going to do a daca deal, van. >> is he? he is? >> he's going to do an immigration security deal where the give is that he'll let something happen on daca. >> wrong. listen, here's the -- [ overlapping voices ] >> wait. >> he just put out an ad saying their terrorists. does that sound like a guy who wants a bill of love? >> here's what you need to do. provide border security money for a wall. the president has said that from the beginning, right? let's limit chain migration. i think everyone can agree that's probably something we need to do. >> what does that have to do with daca? >> it has all to do with daca because you're going to end up revisiting another daca provision in a few years if you don't address the issue. and let's end the visa lottery program. those are three things the president has said. >> i don't mean to interrupt you, brother. >> sure y

, the democrat in congress, the president, donald trumpn the white house from seeing things fall apart. democrat chuck schumer over to the white house for a one-on-one meeting with the president a meeting where he would later say he put money for the wall, something democrats have been deeply opposed to on the table po for a potential deal, a deal that would never come. furious lobbying at the last minute after the government had shut down into the morning, there was no solution, no resolution and one clear fact. things are probably going to get worse before they get better. instead of trying to figure out the pathway forward, instead republicans and democrats now framing who is to blame for senator schumer, there's only one answer. >> every american knows the republican party controls the white house, the senate, the house. it's their job to keep the government open. it's their job to work with us on a way to move things forward. but they didn't reach out to us once on this cr. no discussion, no debate. nothing at all. it was produced wit

you have pakistani national, hacking congress, democrats not seeking charges, they have been carelessith these documents. lou: if i may, to put a point on this, you say they did not care. you are talking about the obama administration did not care? the fbi departmen didn't care, d not insist on forensic exa examg a of the servers of the dnc . >> right, they did not let the fbi, the obama department of justice see the dnc server, but the dnc hack is worse thing that happened. they are running state like hacking is say non-issue. using yahoo!, the most laughably unsecure e-mail providers. at the end of the day, it should is not be considered worse for americans to be able to read e-mails of political party, compared to letting russia or foreign actors see united states government documents. to me, treatment of government documents, in a insecure manner is worse than political peter py e-mail exposed. lou: reporting they have secured sufficient evidence to say that the fbi believed there was evidence that laws were broken. simply by the amount of evidence that they cataloged, there was e

that gives you control of the congress. democrats up 24, a net win of 24 seats in order to take back the house of representatives. but history is going against republicans when we look at this. let's look at the historical perspective right here, wolf, and we can pull that up. it shows that 32 seats are the average loss for a president in a midterm. just to put that in perspective. back when bill clinton was president in his midterm back in 1994 the republican wave, 52 seats were lost. barack obama in 2010 during his first midterm, he lost 63 seats. so certainly going against republicans when you're going into november. but let's continue on. let's see what the seats are up for grabs as we talk right now. 45 seats right now. these are people who are retiring because they want to or they're retiring to run for another office. this number, by the way, does not include the competitive seats where democrats might be able to knock off an incumbent. we talk a lot about the me too movement and how it affects politics. 394 women are either r

what donald trump would and wouldn't support for immigration policy led several members of congress, democrats and republicans alike, to point fingers at white house chief of staff john kelly and senior policy adviser steven miller. >> about the president, his heart is right on this issue. i think he has a good understanding of what will sell. every time we have a proposal, it's only yanked back by staff members. as long as steven miller is in charge of negotiating immigration, we're going into no where. >> time and again the president says one thing if a meeting or even in a tweet, and then his white house staff has to go back and change things, and i don't think they know what they're doing over there. there's absolute incompetence. >> this is the third or fourth time on this issue he's made some kind of commitment and backed off because he's afraid of the right wing. whether steven miller does it, whether general kelly doesn't steer him in the right direction and just lets it happen, i don't know. >> any effort to kill immigration reform usually has mr. miller's fingerprints on it, so i wou

women are calling on our fellow members of congress, democratsblack to this year's state of the union in solidarity. it doesn't seem specifically designed to attack the president or focus on the president. it's about the movement at large. what do you think? i mean, is that something that people should get behind? >> listen, obviously there's been misconduct in the congress, there's been well documented in the media. congress is still -- i think there's a large number of congress that still had not been revealed because of the secretive nature. i think that's something she'd like to see kind of come out and i think that people's voices need to be heard. so she has ever right to do that. they can do a peaceful protest. that's what our country is based upon so i encourage it. what she's doing is something that's well deserved on her part. >> speaking of the me too movement, a story broke on friday that hillary clinton decided not to fire an aide on her 2008 campaign after he had been accused of harassing a young staffer. the female staffer was reas

well, you remember back in the great recession, in 2009, congress, democrats, without republican support, put in place the stimulus bill. the american recovery act. and some $800 million were set aside to provide locomotives for the east coast. for the eastern corridor. most companies said, hey, we don't build locomotives anymore. so general electric and g.m. just waived off the possibility. but in sacramento there was this german company called semens who were building -- siemens who were building light rail cars. transit cars and the like. at a plant, a newly established plant just in sacramento, california. 100% american-made. we are a german company, but operating in america. american-made, the wheels, engrins or the electrical engines, all of the electronics, that german company said, bring it on. $800 million and they produced merican-made loco motives. thousand or maybe a a little less in sacramento. the steel came from the midwest. the wheels were made outside of california, the electric motors came from the midwest. so this opportunity was spread out all across america. it's exa

congress. republican and democrat. in the president as well. they cannot seem to find any agreement. do you see them going forward? >> i think eventually there will be an extension of daca but it will involve the parallel to that some funding for the border wall. it's interesting, the president tweeted up this morning the democrats were all talk and no action. there's some truth, the democrats like doctor as an issue. this is an election year. they can go forward if it's not fixed and blame the presidents and republicans for it. so they have a high demand which is pass a clean dream six and what they mean is no wall, no funding. the great thing is, they don't want president trump to get a victory on his most well remembered promise from the election which was to build the wall. they think they can go towards the shutdown of the government and get republicans blamed for that and that's normally what happens. ultimately they're gonna want to keep the government open and president trump will get better funding for the border wall in combination with the fix on dock a. >> kelly: the demo

the easy way to express this is they are a small -- there is a small majority in congress. democratsup 20 seats and two seats in the senate. the better way to look at this is understanding the vast majority of seats up in the senate are democratic seats, many of them in trouble areas. the democrats themselves have a lot of seats they need to hold. it is not just a zero sum game. they have a long way to go. david: a long way to go. nes, thank you so much for being here. shery: president trump will be joining the who's who of business at the world economic forum leaders. what will his message be? this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: this is bloomberg markets: balance of power. i am shery ahn in new york. david: i am david westin in washington. the white house surprised the business and political world yesterday by announcing president trump will join the world economic forum in switzerland. this is the first time an american resident has been at the meeting since bill clinton, 18 years ago. here is bloomberg's washington correspondent here with me. what is he going to face? >> the president wil

>> you have to ask congress. democrats in the senate could end the shutdown today.e -- there are different things on the horizon that are coming up. friday would be one goalpost, but we will manage this day by day. mentioned, some agencies are sitting on quite a bit of finds that could go quite a bit longer. some have none in would be impacted immediately. there is no individual answer. host: mick mulvaney, the director of the omb. you can hear what he had to say. your thoughts? guest: well, he claimed that schumer insisted that the funding for the wall b $1.6 billion. that was something his office responded to immediately. host: almost immediately. guest: they had the rapid response. the press guy said mulvaney was not in the meeting, and that is inaccurate. he is hotly disputing the meeting that schumer is only going to want $.6 billion. schumer would not give a number in his press conference today. he was asked, what are you willing to do? what did you put on the table? he said, i asked the president for a number, the president gave me a number, i said it is on t

i think there are members of the congress, democratic and republican feel e same way.e want to put an end to the resolutions. these are temporary budget measures that jeopardize our military and waste billions of dollars. the republicans, one-third into this fiscal year have not been able to produce a budget. let's put an end to that. secondly, let's reauthorize programs which the republicans have allowed to lapse. the children's health insurance program, the local community health care clinic program, for example. let's do something about the pension crisis that's hitting many of us in the midwest. and let's put together a scenario that will allow us to solve the problem the president created on september 5th of last year when he ended the daca program. >> my colleague, kacie hunt reporting, many of your colleagues gravitating towards discussion of how to move forward from here. when you think about a bipartisan solution to this, to working with your republican colleagues, where is the flexibility? are you somebody who can back the february 8th deadline that senator m

a lot of members are congress -- of congress -- democrats smell blood in the water and they think they have a very good chance of winning back the house. julia: important that we cut through the noise. scarlet: thank you so much. coming up, january's cryptocurrency selloff. the 20 tumbling as much as 20%. why crackdown seers are weighing fears are weighing on all digital coins. this is bloomberg. ♪ julia: this is bloomberg markets. i'm julia chatterley. scarlet: i'm scarlet fu. it has been a rough day for bitcoin. the cryptocurrency falling as much as 20% amid fears of crypto crackdown. that's a bear market inside of one day. it echoes a broader selloff for the month of january. the digital asset is down more the sma this month and chairman warns investors it could go lower. butt is called a currency very important characteristics of currencies aren't all there. it is an extremely volatile value which undermines its use as a currency and it is also not broadly accepted and people that are investing in it say they should be prepared to lose all of their money. more.t: joining us with it

well, guess what, a lot of people in congress, democrats and say no we don't like that. watch out.it's a story for 2018. >> what happens now with the russia investigation? is that a 2017 story or are we meefg. >> you've been looking at my paperwork. it's the russian -- it's going places. and far. look, in 2017, president trump said all year long it's time to end it tp maybe by thanksgiving, huh maybe by the ended of the year? well it's 2018. they're going strong. why is it going strong? well two words. michael flynn, george papadopoulos. they plea bargained. and by plea bargaining it means they're giving mr. mueller everything and anything he asks for. my gsh that means all kinds of new energy. it's knew the jshdary and intelligence committees run by republicaning they want to end it be done with it. they may be. but mueller will go on. he'll go on for the entire year if not longer because it's like a spider weber. gou there, go there. there will be names galore, interviews galore. it will last throughout the year. >> jessica is not the only one who cheated and looked ahead. mid-te

congress a later deadline to come up with a long-term plan. henry cuellar: it is very frustratinganna wiernicki: texas democrat henry cuellar says congress needs to pass several bills, and can't afford to waste anymore time. henry cuellaru.s. congressman, d-texastake cg @ 0:4-0:45once we push this into february the debt ceiling is going to come in which is something that we need to doanna wiernicki: cuellar says the hold-up is deciding where the money goes. republicans want to add billions of dollars in military spending. but democrats say the budget should focus more on funding programs here at home.paul ryan: we are making good progressanna wiernicki: house speaker paul ryan says he's confident lawmakers will reach a final deal.in washington, i'm anna wiernicki. (( áá v.o. / steve áá )) a cold case solved 25

. >> joining me now is the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, congress manage adam schifff california. congressman, i want to get your take on the president's response to michael wolff's new book, "fire and fury." the suggestion there are many people around the president who are concerned he's mentally unfit for office, president trump tweeted in response, quote, actually throughout life my two greatest assets have been mental 125b89 and being, like, really smart. crooked hillary clinton played these cards very hard and as everyone knows went down in flames. i went from very successful businessman to top tv star to president of the united states on my first try, i think that would qualify as not smart but genius, and very genius, in fact. what is your reaction to those tweets? >> well, look, i don't think mean is particularly surprised what has been revealed in the wolff books in terms of the questions people working closest with the president have about his capacity to do the job. i don't think there is anyone in congress who does not concur privately with those observati

expect much to get done between them, on infrastructure and immigrants, the president's -- congress -- the democratsre not onboard with what the president wants to do. yesterday in the chamber, most of them set down and did not clap when he set out proposals. it does not appear the president and democrats are looking towards working together in the months ahead. shery: the president highlighted america's new villains, the drug and health care industries and their high prices. >> he took on, something we have howd him do, talking about the drug industry and the high prices of prescription drugs is something he wants to take on. we have not seen much action or policy put forward. it could be bipartisan, democrats have also complained about drug prices being too high. we have not seen the president put forth specific policies to try to crack down on the drug industry. republicans in general liking and supporting the free market are weary when it comes to cracking down on a specific industry. he does not have the republicans on his side on that front and has not laid out a policy democrats can get behin

i have heard that many of you in congress, democrats in congress are going to try to bring forward a motion to censure the president? >> i tell you, as a member of the house, when that resolution comes up, i'll be one of the people to speak up and speak out. i think we should do it. we must do it. we must educate our children and generations yet unborn. >> you'll not be in attendance when the president comes to give the state of the union at the end of this month? >> in good conscience, i cannot and will not sit there and listen at him as he gives the state of the union address. >> the president is up and tweeting this morning. of course, this all came up in the context of negotiations on immigration reform. and how to protect the d.r.e.a.m.ers. the young people here under daca. the president is tweeting this morning, daca is probably dead because the democrats don't really want it. they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our military. are you worried that the young people in the daca program will pay the price for what happened here and that democrats will

the democrats in congress won't. neither will the republicans. this will be a compromise. i'm simply suggesting tonight let's get real about the time involved between now and when we have to fix this. and not to think that we can simply kick the can down the road and put in some temporary fix, some kind of bridge later that will protect these kids. those protections will run out on march 5, and may be done at that point. so let's get serious, mr. president. let's all get serious, republicans and democrats. not coming forward to the table with unrealistic expectations about what can be done and what can be part of this legislation. let's have something that we can put on the senate floor by the end of the month to leave sufficient time to get this fixed by march 5. s -- so i hope that we can all work together on this, republicans and democrats. with that, i yield the floor. >> good afternoon. the floor. director they bring greetings from the hutchins center somewhere it was canceled he cannot be with us today but he is probably watching on his ph

congress. trump does not have to fight a democratic congress. he has got everybody there he needs, but he is just not a politician. he just does not know how to work with people, and that is what he does all this tweetin' s o he does not have to answer questions from anybody. jamie says "the democrats are a lot of drama queens. they would not do a compromise if it ran them over. the democrats never compromise and never will." save -- the republicans they need time to work on the daca fix. the late was of the bill has been around for years. they are stalling. they are common. he was -- "trump said dealmakertable genius . one year income of both houses, government shutdown." our next call is on the independent line. go ahead. caller: they have got the wrong term on this. an obamactually shutdown. he is the one who led this eight years ago, six years ago, and another thing is, everybody makes such a big deal about a word. how about the hot mic when biden deal,"his is an f- what obamacare was passed. biden said it. nobody said a word. host: how did

will it took control of congress to democrats in 2018? are asking the question should republicans maintain control of congress? democrats line. good morning. caller: i don't believe so. geteems like the rich never their taxes lowered. they took care of the middle class. my son is all happy. he did not have to pay taxes. bed insabled laying in a northern indiana and i called over 22 ambulances just to get me to wound care. andve medicare and medicaid they will not take me. host: why is that? caller: i don't know if it is traditional medicaid the stopping them or they just want better insurance. people that have better insurance. there is only one company that took me. i need to go to wound care. i need to go to an oncologist. there are so many rooms all over my body. i cry every night. when that opioid freak out started, that's the drug addict. that's not people like us that need it. that upset me, too. host: the house and senate both in session this week. there was some indication in an interview in milwaukee on friday that they will pass

announcement, president trump noted, and i quote, i look forward to working with republicans and democrats in congress to finally address all of these issues. as i've said before, we will resolve the daca issue with heart and compassion, but through the lawful democratic process. it is now time for congress to act. end of quote. donald trump. the president was right. it is time for congress to act. it is time for congress not to kick the can down the road. our republican president, mr. trump, told the republican-led congress to get to work on a daca fix, and i say today to the republican leadership, let's do it. let us do it now. that is what president trump asked you to do. listen to him and let us do it. not next month, not in march but right now as part of the budget agreement. people are working on this issue now. we can come to a consensus. we can pass the dream act if there is a political will to do it. and let us also be very clear, despite what some have said, this is an urgent matter which must be addressed now. since president trump rescinded the daca program in september, more than 15,000 d