all right for more on this we're joined in the studio by analyst tyson barker of the aspen institute germany tyson thanks for being here so we just heard the democrats rejected transfer pozole even before he had finished delivering or even begun delivering his speech why well there are two there are two aspects here one is the content the others the sequencing on the content side nancy pelosi just said this is basically repackaging the same things that have been on the table in separate kind of strands and just repackaging the same things is not a new deal and it's not a good faith proposal that's the one piece the second piece is on the sequencing the democrats have said in the house that the trumpet ministrations with the senate needs to reopen the government in order for negotiations to begin so the sequencing has to be right here to reopen the government and then start negotiating on this and immigration piece all right and now this government shutdown the longest ever in u.s. history and opinion polls show that most americans in fact blame trump for it so will his proposal now do

well for now we're joined by tyson barker from the aspen institute germany based here in berlin good to see you tyson good to see you know president trump has used his first oval office address to the nation to drum up support for his border wall he said it was an appeal for common sense as he put it in a compromise in the name of national security what do you make of a well i mean we have to ask ourselves why now i mean you know he's been in office for two years this is something that he ran on this was kind of one of his big three catch phrases during the campaign and you know for a long that for the majority the entire time of that two years he had unitary control g.o.p. control of congress and for some reason this acute situation this humanitarian crisis is arising now and i think that the reaction of the of the american public has been why now why does this seem so manufactured which is a word that you heard a lot from his critics and from the press now what he did not do is declare some sort of national emergency which would have allowed him to bypass congress affectively to to

ok to assess the trump's future challenges and record i'm joined now by tyson barker program director of the aspen institute here in berlin good morning tyson morning what what metric do we use to judge this president say donald trump has been dismantling the international order from trade to alliances something he and his base vehemently reject but that many find horrifying what metric to use so i guess the metric really depends on who you are because if you're in the general public clearly his polling numbers are pretty low there hovering around forty percent maybe a little bit below majority of americans disapprove of his presidency right now in those numbers as disapproval numbers are going up that said the stock market remains turbulent but still you know high unemployment is low the tax cuts that he delivered delivered a lot of money to corporations so a lot of those people who are managing that money reinvesting in the economy are very supportive and his base is very very supportive of what he's doing those people who went out to the polls in twenty sixteen and got him elected

this kind of things it damages those relationships that you are intrusted to manage you know tyson barker's always we appreciate you coming in given your insights tonight we appreciate you. well a court in stamboul has sentenced a reporter he works for the w. news to thirteen months in prison failing on car was convicted for insulting and slandering a public official now those charges came from her reporting on the panama papers and the former turkish prime minister's times to offshore tax havens the international consortium of investigative journalist has condemned the sentence as yet another disgraceful what's hack on free speech in turkey owner is appealing the sentence to w.'s you're han spoke with her. usually pailin on her writes about other people and their stories now she's making headlines herself after being sentenced to jail for defamation and insult and slandering a public official. in the big three addiction i expect at this verdict because here in turkey as a journalist i always have one foot in jail and i'm not the only one many reporters are in the same position but we try n

now i'm joined by time barker he's with the aspen institute germany times and also worked in the u.s. state department during the obama presidency it's good to see you again tyson you know we've talked about this before presidential speeches from the oval office where they usually have the power to change the narrative if the president wants to but this is not a usual presidency is it right i mean they're supposed to be agenda setting i mean what you're trying to do when you're having a speech like this is is galvanize public opinion around a position and unite it's pretty clear that the audience for the speech was really congressional republicans to say hold the line i'm not pulling the trigger on you know declaring it a national emergency something that would allow me to perhaps use defense spending funds that are that have been appropriated for defense it to deploy it for the for the border wall but i want you to to support this and watch what the base does when they make this speech and this was not a speech that the entire american public and so far congressional leaders it least of the health remain unimpressed we're also hearing that more republicans are