Posted on 12/11/2018 11:32:46 AM PST by Kaslin
For the first time since the 2018-midterm elections, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with President Trump at the White House Tuesday.
Their meeting was originally supposed to be closed press, but that all changed when the White House press pool was invited into the Oval Office to broadcast their remarks.
President Trump started the meeting by thanking Pelosi and Schumer for showing up and made his case for additional border security.
"I am proud to shut down the government over border security," Trump said. "I will take the mantle."
"They're pouring into our country. We have to have border security. We have to have a wall," he continued.
After some back and forth with the Democrat leaders, Pelosi started to panic and said they should not continue in front of the press.
"I don't think we should have a debate in front of the press on this," Pelosi said.
"Its called transparency Nancy," Trump shot back.
President Trump engages in an Oval Office clash with Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi over border security as the shutdown deadline looms
Pelosi: "I don't think we should have a debate in front of the press on this" pic.twitter.com/gopvtJKpXO— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) December 11, 2018
President Trump then continued, leading Schumer to later argue the same.
"Let's debate, let's debate in private," he pleaded. "We shouldn't shut down the government over a dispute, and you want to shut it down."
"Let's debate in private": President Trump, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi just sparred in the Oval Office on live TV about border security and funding Trump's wall https://t.co/uiiZgARky5 pic.twitter.com/EJBynT3NkR— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 11, 2018
Here is the full exchange:
WATCH: Full video of heated Oval Office meeting between President Trump and Democratic leaders Schumer and Pelosi over border security and a potential government shutdown https://t.co/agvypq00l2 pic.twitter.com/kdDLeeZ0R1— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) December 11, 2018
After the meeting, Pelosi and Schumer ran to the cameras outside of the West Wing and further slammed President Trump's position.
"He will get no wall and he will get a shutdown," Schumer said. "This temper tantrum that he seems to throw will not get him his wall."
Even by outlandish Trump standards, it was a masterstroke...!
He should NEVER let the media out of the room.
They loathe him yet he USES them..!
He is a BORN media manipulator, makes Paris Hilton look like a beginner.
They loathe him, yet they cannot resist covering him.
Media = Trump’s WHORE.
If it WERE his wall, he would fund it and build it.
It’s our wall.
Well what there is of it
That’s not how it’s gonna get spun on lib news tonight I can assure you of that. It’ll be more like they stood up to the bully President or some such crap as that.
Democrats. Big on transparency - until they can’t win. Quelle surprise.
I don’t care who you are. That’s funny, right there.
Love to see him talking down in public to Big Tuna Pelosi.
I noted that the side repeatedly saying, “We should do this in private” is the side always braying about TRANSPARENCY.
LOL, more winning as people realize Democrat politicians are stupid.
El Rushbo just covered this. SanFranNan & ChuckieCheez thought PDJT was beaten & ready to make peace.
No such luck! The Donald handed them their @zzes. WINNING!
...the White House press pool was invited into the Oval Office to broadcast their remarks.
President Trump started the meeting by thanking Pelosi and Schumer for showing up and made his case for additional border security.
"I am proud to shut down the government over border security," Trump said. "I will take the mantle."
"They're pouring into our country. We have to have border security. We have to have a wall," he continued.
After some back and forth with the Democrat leaders, Pelosi started to panic and said they should not continue in front of the press.
"I don't think we should have a debate in front of the press on this," Pelosi said.
"Its called transparency Nancy," Trump shot back.
He's got it, yeah baby, he's got it.
The Democrats have clearly shown themselves to be enemies of our country.
"Its called transparency Nancy," Trump shot back.
Perfect answer.
“I don’t think we should have a debate in front of the press on this,” Pelosi said.
“Its called transparency Nancy,” Trump shot back.
Ouch, that’s gonna leave a mark.
Do we care what Nancy and Chuck don’t like? Clearly, they did not win this debate, and the are choking on it. Trump got them, on camera, to admit that the border must, by definition, be defended, the problem now is the price tag and the actual physical wall.
There was no wiggle room for the two Democrat legislators to come out and say they would not take measures to defend the wall. It is the rhetoric of the last 30 years or so being blown out of the water.
Put up or shut up.
Maybe Schumer believes Israel’s wall is no good, eh..?
LOL. I heard on Rush that Belagosi said the the RAT congress is
going to be more transparent than the GOP congress.
Then Belagosi asked that the press be barred from covering the meeting.
The Trump dropped the hammer on Bella and ChuckU.
These two RAT vampires melted when sunlight his them.
I love it!
Yep, and why not in front of the press? Because they can’t control the message that’s why.
“”Its called transparency Nancy,”
Pelosi, unfiltered by bought and paid for media, is a disaster waiting to happen for the Dems.
It was an ambush, the same type of Ambush the DNC tries to trap Trump in, so turn about it fair play
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