if this doesn't end soon, a comparison to marie antoinette may be the best he can get.anks for watching. "cnn tonight" with d. lemon starts right now. >> you know it was a mnemonic device to keep him on message because, as reported, they were concern that he would veer and stray off message. so they came up with the build a wall thing because it was easy for him to say. and then, you know, now he's stuck with it. >> sam nunberg and roger stone, the bright lights of the trump campaign. >> one of those guys was on tv tonight still defending birtherism. i think it was corsi. it's like, oh, my gosh. is this -- who are these people? >> they play to advantage. >> no. >> fear sells. >> no, no, no. i think some of those people believe it. i think it's idiocy. you don't think they believe it? >> look, i'm saying this universe of people we're talking about around trump, no. we know they don't believe it. even corsi loves a good conspiracy, but i think he loves them as a method of persuasion. i think he's too smart, too ed educated to buy that b.s. >> well, some people are still s

take this infamous phrase often attributed to mary antoinette. has been used to demonstrate livius nurse the selfishness of france's elites which in turn led to the french revolution now the attribution may be misguided but the lesson isn't if you can wall the cries of the social classes or you mock them you do so at your own peril. the current french president should have seen it long ago as unrest has been bubbling throughout two thousand and eight. things started to turn nasty as the french government attempted to a victim and she pulled unity to land that they. pool at the gate. it's a protest against expulsion the satisfaction. of the talks will be pekoe are risks being meanwhile the call for dismissing these should should be built this period he must be evacuated will be back during the morning if the republican leader must be respectful. mayhem first reached paris in spring calls for reform plans all may first violence quickly spilled over and dozens were arrested. but the penny still didn't drop from my colleagues spend the summer offerin

. >> reporter: democrats calling ross, who is a billionaire, a modern day marie antoinette. >> they have wilbur ross saying he doesn't understand why. when he was asked about people going to food lines and pantries, he said he doesn't understand why they have to do that. is this a let them eat cake kind of attitude, or call your father for money. er. >> of course all of this zwoping as we come on the air tonight. jon karl at the white house. both parties trying to hash out some ort of a deal tonight. and speaker nancy pelosi is holding some of the cards here. and down payment for the border wall to reopen? >> reporter: speaker pelosi continues to insist that money for the border wall should not be mart of any agreement to reopen the government. the same time, you have the president saying the wall must be build one way or another. he said there are alternatives and one of the alternatives still under consideration, trying to bypass congress declaring a national emergency? >> thank you. we have never seen this in our country before. as the political battles play out, the real pain for fam

words of marie antoinette no less. kate thank you very much indeed kay meeting with the old business. the other side of our studio near brush with ready to go with me which could be lisa. nicolas maduro. now one of the should we say two presidents in venezuela. he's been tweeting. he has -- obviously with the economic crisis in the country there's almost no real papers hard news on the street it's cool going on online social media mature she said treating. and this is just twenty four minutes ago that you can see him with his of bali varian revolutionary cry the warring people of venezuela reject family and emphatically the imperial aggressions against our homeland. we will defend this land as a liberated state long live the people of in his way -- to he's treating in english there of course in french spanish as well that you can see he describes himself as son of chavez building the homeland with the revolutionary efficiency. now we know that --- he has -- getting a lotus this is with the hash tag -- we are majuro and

. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi calling ross a modern day marie antoinette. >> he doesn't understand why they have to do that. is this the let them make cake kind of attitude or call your father for money. >> later ross clarifying the remark. >> so we're aware, painfully aware that there are hardships inflicted on the individual workers. >> reporter: now, ross' own employees at the commerce department are among those federal workers who will not be receiving their paycheck today. there is some promise in the fact that there are for the first time in so long some actual bipartisan talks taking place, but it's still not entirely clear that the president would sign on to a temporary measure to re-open the government if it does not include funding for his border wall. he told reporters only that he was not happy if that were to take place. he's also reportedly still looking into the possibility of making an emergency declaration. janai, victor. >> we'll see what happens here, all right. lana zak, thank you. >>> and just one day after postponing his public testimony before a house committ

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devastation and and they were privileged class to be able to do this right well i mean look marie antoinette right she said. you know when told that the people had no bread she was so clueless that she said well what about brioche or cake and she wasn't being like just being mean she was actually being stupid is a moron right so these people like you know the social justice warriors on america's booze raw are stupid they're morons and that's what they're going to lead to their leno less and back in the second half a talk more about that max as i'm going to stay right here oh ok stay there don't joke i'm excited you'd stay there also. u.s. veterans who come back from war often until those same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defense of officers we're going to attack and destroy their governments and in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money others with their lives if we wer

was one of many critics who noted the resemblance of mr ross's response to former french quae marie antoinette was notorious for the suggestion that presidents without bread should eat cake she lost her head for that a couple years later and we now turn to take a look at where we are in the development of blocks to do so we are pleased to be joined by phone tech expert joe duncan who formerly worked at citibank at morgan stanley joe welcome we're so glad to have you with us on the program we appreciate you spending your time and expertise with us mark when big going burst onto the scene a decade ago it was really the guts behind the block chain that was really it wasn't just because it was the entered the block chains that nearly everyone embraced it seemed that block chain was going to lend itself to like every single sector out there joe and in some fashion or form so where are we today in the development and deployment of blocked change technologies joe. you know i think you know that a common analogy we hear about where we are in the stage really of any new technology is baseball right whe

devastation and and they were privileged class to be able to do this right well i mean look marie antoinette right she said. you know when told that the people had no bread she was so clueless that she said well what about brioche or cake and she wasn't being like just being mean she was actually being stupid is a moron right so these people like you know the social justice warriors on america's booze raw are stupid they're morons and that's what they're going to lead to their leno. less and back in the second half a talk more about that maxim to stay right here oh ok stay there don't joke i'm excited you stay there also. in the united states we proactively require brominated flame retardants to be put into furniture and marketing among other things and that's resulted in extremely higher levels all those flame returns in the human bodies of americans as opposed to europeans and that ultimately has affected the cognitive outcomes of literally a generation of american children. have to be interviewed and they have to understand whatever. the p.m.c. the. contractor who won the award the came h

devastation and and they were privileged class to be able to do this right well i mean look marie antoinette right she said. you know when told that the people had no bread she was so clueless that she said well what about brioche or cake and she wasn't being like just being mean she was actually being stupid is a moron right so these people like you know the social justice warriors in america are stupid they're morons and that's what they're going to lead to they're leno less and back in the second half of talk more about that max because i'm going to stay right here oh ok stay there don't joke i'm excited you'd stay there also. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion dollars and. more than ten dollars. eighty five percent of global will you want to be rich eight point six percent market so thirty percent your home with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit first and one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars industrial . but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is

and of course that those comments from to power levels between wilbur ross and marie antoinette and and that famous comment and democrats pouncing on this to say that it shows trouble ministration officials are out of touch classy has that baena much of a backlash against a trump ministration. as the polls first before we go into that let me just explain a little bit something that wilbur ross perhaps doesn't understand many federal workers live paycheck to paycheck the for example the people who check you at the airport there are some of the lowest federal were paid federal workers they don't have the savings so they're about to go with their second paycheck missed that means they're not paying their mortgage are not paying rent and they are going to food banks in record numbers to actually feed their families and when you talk to a family that doesn't actually have any extra money say well they'll pay a little bit of interest. misses the point that they can't afford to pay a little bit of interest and then it can start to stack up that said this is hurting the president his poll numbe

devastation and and they were privileged class to be able to do this right well i mean look marie antoinette right she said. you know when told that the people had no bread she was so clueless that she said well what about brioche or cake and she wasn't being like just being mean she was actually being stupid is a moron right so these people like you know the social justice warriors on america's booze raw are stupid they're morons and that's what they're going to lead to their leno left and back in the second half and talk more about that max because i'm going to stay right here oh ok stay there don't i'm excited you stay there also . what politicians do. you put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go on to the press it's like them before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of the. country has gone into a nihilistic fever. got to. get out the traveling across america what makes america the show is the genius. of the south american hero this is a point. we only just a. culture. we're starti

one month after the laying of the stone, mary antoinette was executed in paris. on, onth further november 19, the british convention opened in edinburgh. even in a decade of revolutionary action, 1793 stands out in a year -- as a year in which the french republic found its focus, the idea of a british republic died. monument ton a republican ideals in the heart of that violence, to imagine a location for debate, a foundation stone for a republican state during such turmoil, those are the achievements of thornton's design for the capitol building. remember the building defied the logic of republicanism. they were meant to be small and personal. america was casting a dramatic shadow over the imagination of those who lived in the atlantic world, offering an idea of continental military, potent, commercial republic. in the beaconaly to those who sought to square the paradox of how a larger public could thrive in a commercial age. the capitals sought to make that manifest and square the circle of republican virtue and imperial reach. that is what the building achieves

. >> reporter: democrats are calling ross, a billionaire, a modern day marie antoinette. >> they havebur ross saying he doesn't understand why when he was asked about people going to food lines and pantries. he doesn't understand why they have to do that. is this a let them eat cake kind of attitude or call your dad for money. >> reporter: speaker pelosi continues to insist money for border wall should not be part of any agreement to reopen the government. the president says one way or the other, he has to get the wall built. the president saying he has alternatives. one remains trying to bypass congress by declaring a national emergency. i'm jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. >> head scratching comments from the commerce secretary there. we are seeing good will gestures. in manchester, new hampshire, members of the coast guard, bracing for another week of no pay are filling up their tanks free of charge. >>> the owner of a california gas station is giving money to federal employees who live in the city of freemont. they are welcome to come back for more. >>> the uas shrouded i

what you're also hearing besides darwinian survival of the fittest rhetoric, marie antoinette "let them eat cake" kind of rhetoric out of this administration and some members of this body, which i think reflects poorly on an understanding about where the average american, including the average federal employee, actually is and what their needs really are and they don't demand much but respect is something they do demand. and it is something we offer them. and that's why this resolution in front of us is so important. sit that hard to come together? yeah, it's nonbinding but it's aspirational. and even that apparently some of my friends from the other side of the aisle find difficult to swallow. a commitment not to shut down government for any reason. let's not hold federal employees and the american public they serve hostage ever again. we'll keel with our policy disputes separately but we won't, we won't engage in shutting down the federal government. because it's disastrous, it's reckless, it's dysfunctional and it's a disservice to the people who sent us here. and it's that simple. n

wilbur ross to come out like marie antoinette, they just have to deal with it.'t know why they're standing in line for food banks. because not everybody has parents that are multibillionaires to bail them out. this administration has no idea what americans go through on day-to-day basis and exaggerated it with the shutdown. >> and trump will say look how many jobs i've created, look at economy. the first thing they pull out of the republican talking point, once in an argument, is the economy and growth and consumer confidence and where the markets have been. so that is going to be the comeback answer, if somebody was to -- >> and have a conversation with the people, and listen to what they're saying what it is that they have needed. >> you have to imagine the economy has take an huge hit as a result of this >> sure it has more to the point, look at what donald trump implores the gop to do forcing them to gaslight the country along with him you have senators and congress member whose have been there a long time, who are republican who know the damage this has cau

president trump's campaign advisor and daughter in law, the wife of eric trump is offering a marie antoinette style message to the 800,000 workers going without pay because her wealthy father in law shut down the government. >> it's not fair to you but this is so much bigger than any one person. it's a little bit of pain but frirts the future of our country. would tell them please stay strong. we are behind you and we're going toing do everything we can -- i know the president is doing everything he can to resolve this quickly. >> hang in there. people marched on capitol hill chanting we need paychecks, not more food banks. now day 33 of the trump shutdown and we have tsa workers calling out at record rates, the president of the attendant union warning of possible gaps in safety and air travel. hundreds of irs employees are skipping work. and trump's former chief of staff, has joined a letter to fund the department of homeland security. in addition the coast guard's top officer is telling the world enough is enough. >> ultimately i find it unacceptable that coast guard men and women have to r

kennedy: marie antoinette. they don't need their crumbs. thanks, nancy. thank you, tim carney. >> thank you, kennedy. kennedy: alarm bells that the shutdown could soon start doing serious damage to the economy. according to the bean counters on wall street, this whole mess could push the nation's first quarter growth close to or even below zero. that's not good. the national association of realtors claims 25% of its members say the shutdown is dissuading clients from buying homes, businesses that can't meet with government regulators are at a standstill and, of course, there's the 800,000 federal workers who aren't getting paid, and they're not putting money into the economy right now. the list goes on and on. even the president's former economic adviser, gary cohn, said the shutdown is, quote, completely wrong and makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. so this be enough to get both sides to come to the table and compromise? let's go to tonight's panel. it's ladies' night. she's a correspondent for the greg gutfeld show, kat timpf is here along with nation

it wasn't fair for me to compare the trump troop to marie antoinette, because she didn't say "let thems administration is doubling down on dumb when it coombs to understanding the pain of the shutdown. potus doesn't get the pain. and he does not get where people are on this. and listen -- >> many of the people who are not getting paid are totally in favor of what we are doing. >> polls prove that is b.s. workers areerally on the streets waiting for food and his director of commerce said this. >> i don't really understand why, because as i mentioned before the obligations that they would undertake say borrowing from a bank or a credit union are in effect federally guaranteed. so the 30 days of pay that some people will be out is no real reason why they shouldn't be able to get a loan against it. >> what are you talking about? get a loan? do you know what that costs? do you know how hard it is for people to get loans or collateral they need or credit cards? you know they charge a fortune for borrowing and it is the reason that many can't get ahead, and you are encouraging that to pay for

almost as one person said on twitter, sorry, it is like the marie antoinette sweepstakes going on here always said he has all these rich people around him, and they are successful and that is xwratd, is great, is th problem? >> this is the risk you run when people have not really struggled themselves. sympathizing with the people who have to support you to keep you in power matters. and not every rich person is unsympathetic. but this administrationbit of n to bridge that gap. when you say these things at the outset, you can't get a loan without some sort of collateral anyway, and the fact that person after person after person is trying to make light of it, i think the trump administration has at various points said look, there is a bit of short term pain here for the long term gain. we've heard that line being trotted out when we were talking about the tariffs and changing the trade policies. and the good thing for trump is that lot of his supporters do follow him with the faith that he is doing greater things on the macro scale, so they will just suffer through the more limited indiv

. >> let them eat cake, kind of marie antoinette pictures making rounds we also spoke with jim cramernd he spoke with the ceo of wells fargo, among the banks waiving overdraft fees, waiving fees on loans, trying to get help out there for these government workers so i think that moment yesterday you're referring to is also prompting, the financial system to step up and say, yes, we can help out as well >> right and this market is taking its lead today from worried about or less worried, i should say, about quantitative tightening. this market is taking its lead from the pboc, doing more stimulative measures for the banks. so this is sort of the cherry on top, if you will if we get something that leads to a bigger conversation, the market is going to love that, but ultimately, this is about the fed and this is about china trade and this is, as long as dc doesn't continue to screw it up, the markets will go sideways to higher is my opinion >> what would be the best possible announcement for the president, forgetting the reality here, what would they like him to say? what's the kind of th

you've got members of the administration out there, kind of competing for the marie antoinette awardsaying callous things about people who are clearly suffering out there, federal workers who are clearly suffering out there. his poll numbers, we know how much the president cares about ratings. he's not unaware of the fact that he has been in a steady slide since this whole controversy began. and he needs a way out where he can plausibly or close to plausibly claim that he got something. but he needs to get out of this. i think what you saw today was a beginning, potentially, of that process. and maybe mitch mcconnell, always wiley, and chuck schumer can put their heads together with pelosi and come up with some formula that will allow the president an escape path here. >> you know, joey, cnn is now reporting -- i'll read to you specifically what we're reporting. the white house is preparing a draft proclamation for president donald trump to declare a national emergency along the southern border and has identified more than $7 billion in potential funds for his signature border wall.

you had wilbur ross, lara trump and others do their best marie antoinette and act like they didn't really understand the pain that these folks were feeling. and i think you look at that, you look at the dropping poll numbers that this president is seeing. and this has been a really, really bad week for him. and, you know, you also put in there the capitulation on the state of the union. i think it portrays a white house in the middle of dysfunction, corruption, looking out of touch, and chaos. the president is really hurting there. >> rick, it really is, you know, again -- we talk about things here on cable news in the abstract sometimes, but to hear from people throughout the week would work for the u.s. government, law-abiding people, play by the rules, and they find themselves that close to being evicted, they find themselves not being able to pay water bills and light bills. and then they hear wilbur ross yesterday who at one point was worth a few billion dollars, i believe "fortune" downgraded his wealth last year or the year before to roughly $700 million, to hear him be so tone dea

this marie antoinette attitude of let them eat cake is pervasive in the administration. the president thinks, i guess, they can call their dads for money. hours after secretary ross made his statement, white house economic advisor larry kudlow doubled down on this administration's let them eat cake attitude saying that the shutdown was just a glitch. just a glitch? maybe to you it's a glitch. our 's a paycheck to federal employees and the work they do for us. so they are being harmed. by not getting paid. the people they serve, the american people, are being harmed by not being served. our economy will suffer a downturn, it does at these times. the president's own economic advisors can tell them that. this shutdown is not a glitch. it is a crisis that the president alone created and that the president alone can end. . the republicans in the congress have been accomplices to the president's irresponsibility and just ignoring the consequences of his action. either he doesn't know or he doesn't care, but nonetheless, the trump shutdown goes on. once again, we call on the pr

however, i will say that i think that this government shutdown is president trump's marie an antoinettet, just let them eat cake. just figure it out. >> that's an interesting analogy. it certainly applies. let's listen to what lindsey graham said about the you want's demand for border wall funding. >> if he gives in now that's the end of 2019 in terms of him being an effective president. that's probably the end of his presidency. >> is that what this is about now, joe? the fear of losing his base, just riding off into the sunset and losing by a lot in 2020? >> i think lindsey graham is talking about the president trying to keep his base, and of course mollify his base by doing this. but at the end of the day it would be much better if they passed some kind of short-term resolution to keep the government open and continue to work on the details of what border security might look like. this is tragic, by the way for federal workers, not just the 800,000, but contractors, grantees, all those people who have business with with the government who are put off, delayed and not paid during this

. >> reporter: democrats pounced calling ross, who is a billionaire, a modern marie antoinette. >> isthe let them eat cake kind of attitude or call your father for money? >> reporter: national economic director, larry kudlow, is downplaying the lasting economic impact while praising his staff. >> they're volunteering but they do it because they believe government service is honorable and they believe in president trump and they are working as hard as ever. >> reporter: now, you heard the president say there repeatedly he has alternatives, hinting he may still go around congress and declare a national emergency to build his wall anyway but even many republicans are warning against that move. they say it would set a really bad precedent. >> even though they're working behind the scenes congress basically out till next week? >> reporter: yeah, they are out here so while we're told some of the talks continue between senate leaders, don't expect much action today or over the weekend. >> okay, mary bruce, thanks very much. >>> we're going to move on to that breaking news overnight. more bre

davos, you know, saying kind of "let them eat bridge loans" which is not even as elegant as marie antoinette'se that ross was with in davos. they're all just kind of variants. there's liberals, conservatives among them. but a group of people who have been totally callous to the fact that in the united states, in britain where i was last week, in many other western countries, pretty large majorities of people on both sides of the aisle basically feel the society doesn't work for them anymore. it works for a few people. they know it's not working for them. and in this moment, you have this week ken glitriffin, the he fund manager, by a $200 million apartment. these davos people saying you can't raise taxes. these people are begging to be overthrown. i think there are glimmers of the fact they're starting to be overthrown. >> i just couldn't believe that davos still even happened this year -- >> right, right. >> on the heels of everything that's happening and the turmoil around the world. how ironic and how much does wilbur ross prove your point, talking about how federal workers who are doing ho

what you're also hearing besides darwinian survival of the fittest rhetoric, marie antoinette "let them eat cake" kind of rhetoric out of this administration and some members of this body, which i think reflects poorly on an understanding about where the average american, including the average federal employee, actually is and what their needs really are and they don't demand much but respect is something they do demand. and it is something we offer them. and that's why this resolution in front of us is so important. sit that hard to come together? yeah, it's nonbinding but it's aspirational. and even that apparently some of my friends from the other side of the aisle find difficult to swallow. a commitment not to shut down government for any reason. let's not hold federal employees and the american public they serve hostage ever again. we'll keel with our policy disputes separately but we won't, we won't engage in shutting down the federal government. because it's disastrous, it's reckless, it's dysfunctional and it's a disservice to the people who sent us here. and it's that simple. n