Posted on 01/21/2018 7:13:52 PM PST by Kaslin
On day one of the 2018 government shutdown, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) came out and claimed that he offered President Trump funding for his border wall in exchange for protection for so-called Dreamers via the Differed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and he turned it down. Since then, the liberal media have been running around claiming that Trump was the reason an agreement couldn’t be reached. But during Sunday’s Meet the Press, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) chastised the media for buying the claim “hook, line, and sinker.”
The dust-up with NBC host Chuck Todd began after Cotton was explaining that the only real deal put forward to the President didn’t cover a wall and barely covered construction of new fences, mostly just repairs. “That's already changed. That's already changed. Chuck Schumer on Friday gave him full funding for the wall, 18 billion. Put it on the table. Done! That’s already changed,” snapped Todd.
Cotton shot back by asking if Todd was in the negotiating room, then explained the serious problem with Democrats and the media:
It’s hard for the President or for Senate Republicans to negotiate when the Democrats sitting across the table don't get what they want. They run out and they misrepresent what was a good faith effort to listen and to build trust, claim that some ridiculous deal was made and then claim that the President walked away from that deal and the media buys it hook, line, and sinker.
Senator Cotton Slams Media for Buying Schumer’s ‘Ridiculous’ Border Offer
The media was quick to buy Schumer’s evidence-free claim without asking about how the Democratic position, which, for months, had been that a border wall was a “non-starter,” had suddenly turned into a capitulation. Especially after the party was touting that they had the votes to shutdown the government over DACA.
Todd continued by complaining that the President and Republicans still weren’t taking them up on the new public offer. “What I don't understand is: How do you not see it as progress now that Chuck Schumer even publicly is saying you get full funding for the wall,” he whined. “Louis Gutierrez publicly saying you get funding for the wall. How is that not done? Why is that not a done deal? They’ve already moved.”
“So Chuck, that's a good first step but the devil is always in the details on immigration,” Cotton reminded his host. “It's a very complicated area of law. Last week Senator Durbin and Senator Graham were saying you get funding for the wall. You don't get new funding, funding to repair existing and it's one year.” “That’s an old offer,” Todd argued, apparently still pushing Schumer’s new one.
Cotton reminded Todd once more that immigration negotiations had been filled with broken promises from lawmakers regarding what would be in a deal. “We've seen this time and time again in the immigration space, promises are made, and promises are not kept because we spend money on a year-to-year basis,” he stated.
Transcript below:
NBC
Meet the Press
January 21, 2018
10:46:44 AM Eastern
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TOM COTTON: On security, no-no border construction, only repair of existing construction.
CHUCK TODD: That's already changed. That's already changed. Chuck Schumer on Friday gave him full funding for the wall, 18 billion. Put it on the table. Done! That’s already changed.
COTTON: Were you in that meeting?
TODD: I mean… Do you…
COTTON: I wasn't in the meeting either.
TODD: Okay.
COTTON: It's hard for the President to negotiate -- it's hard for the President or for Senate Republicans to negotiate when the Democrats sitting across the table don't get what they want. They run out and they misrepresent what was a good faith effort to listen and to build trust, claim that some ridiculous deal was made and then claim that the President walked away from that deal and the media buys it hook, line, and sinker. The President and the Senate Republicans engaged on this issue have been consistent since September when the President ended President Obama's unlawful program. The problem we have is for four and a half months the Democrats have not been negotiating over these very real and very honest concerns.
TODD: What I don't understand is: How do you not see it as progress now that Chuck Schumer even publicly is saying you get full funding for the wall. Louis Gutierrez publicly saying you get funding for the wall. How is that not done? Why is that not a done deal? They’ve already moved. You’re the Democrats here and they say, “We've moved much farther.”
COTTON: So Chuck, that's a good first step but the devil is always in the details on immigration. It's a very complicated area of law. Last week Senator Durbin and Senator Graham were saying you get funding for the wall. You don't get new funding, funding to repair existing and it's one year.
TODD: That’s an old... That’s an old offer.
COTTON: We've seen this time and time again in the immigration space, promises are made, and promises are not kept because we spend money on a year-to-year basis. Second, you still have the problem of chain migration and of creating an entire new group of immigrants that is going to be able to bring millions of new immigrants to the country without regard to their skills or education level or ability to get a job and stand on their own two feet. We have to solve those two negative side effects of giving legal protections to the DACA population. That's the parameters of the deal we all agreed to a couple of Tuesdays ago at the White House.
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Todd is a tool.
Thank you, Sen Cotton.
Chuck Todd, negotiating for the Dims as usual.
Like Freeper jospehm20 said: “Todd is a tool”
Todd is a Stool.
I had some ‘discussion’ on this today. In a nutshell, Schumer essentially said the following: “Give us DACA, we’ll open the government, and we’ll discuss the Wall”.
The article that I found had it correct, and I think Schumer is being straight on this. It was the media that TOTALLY FABRICATED the claim that the Dems buckled on the Wall. They didn’t and they won’t. They’ll fund the government without DACA, if it comes to it, but they’ll NEVER fund the wall.
LIEberals LIE!
Thank you Senators Cotton, Perdue and Grassley.
We need more like them and less like Flake, Corker, Hatch, Heller, Alexander, Graham, McCain, Murkowsky, Hoeven, Rubio, Tillis, Burr, Lankford, Gardner, Cornyn, Cochran, Collins, Sasse, Kennedy, Shelby, Ernst and Blunt who are all are in favor of amnesty.
This is pretty amazing that they want to import illegal alien low skilled workers to compete low skilled workers within their African American base. How can they get away with that politically? Are the Republicans giving them a pass on this?
President Trump...."Just say NO"...works for me!!
We want ALL the wall First. 100% prepaid. Then we limit daca to children and no chain and no lottery and only merit based and controlled legal immigration or you can go to hell. Suck it up buttercup!!
F. Upchuck Todd.
I think Schumer probably is willing to give full funding for a wall in return for amnesty & citizenship for about 30 million illegals, all 1 mile of a wall that is.
Looked up Sen. Tom Cotton on wikipedia. He is the real deal & we need about fifty like him in the Senate. Distinguished military record & a rock solid conservative.
Chuckie Cheez warned DJT not to include Sen. Cotton in any shutdown negotiations. It’s personal for Schumer. VERY personal.
No wonder the sh’thole thing set him off.
No Republican should EVER meet with these pukes without a recording device.
Democrats are replacing the black population with the Hispanic population...Hispanics voting can give dems entire states...Blacks have never been able to do that....Over 60 million Hispanics VS 45 million blacks...By 2025,dems won’t even need the black vote...
I heard Schumer’s remarks in the Senate at midnight on Friday. He did NOT offer anything like “full funding” for the wall. His phrase was that he was willing to “discuss” a wall now. That is NOTHING like committing to full funding. Chuck Todd is a LIAR.
Of course, when Schumer says he is willing to “discuss” something it in no way commits him to doing anything. He insists upon DACA now and then will drag out the border issues for a long time and then eventually say he can’t agree to anything new.
All they want is amnesty. Once they get that, all other promises are broken, and it is game over for the great Experiment in the proposition that men and women can govern themselves.
First the smiles (think Schumer) then the lies (from the RINOs), then general chaos.
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