Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show, midday update for Wednesday,

October 22nd. 22 days, folks. We're nearing the record for the longest government shutdown.

We're just a few days out from that. Still no budging from the Marxist Democrats. They're holding

the American people and their money and our troops and many other government employees hostage

with their selfishness

just to spite Donald Trump, but every poll shows they're the ones losing the fight.

They're the ones losing in the polls with the American people.

Now, President Trump says he's interested in meeting with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries,

but under one condition that they open up the government.

Other than that, he doesn't want to see their faces.

Take a listen to the wise words that President Trump had to say for Hakeem and Chuck Schumer.

You won't meet with them until the government's open.

The government has to be open, yeah?

You know how long it would take for them to do that? Just saying, okay, government's open, that's it. There is nothing. How long do you can go? What they're doing is saying they lost the negotiation, and when we got the great big, beautiful deal done, they lost that negotiation. Now they're saying, well, we want to get some of the things we lost.

But the problem is the things they lost are very bad for our country.

We don't want to have people come over from all over the world from prisons and all and have their health care paid for.

We want to take care of people that are American citizens and all.

So they want $1.5 trillion of money to be wasted and jeopardize the health care of other people.

We're not going to do that.

So I would love to meet with them.

We want the country open for us.

There you have it, Chuck and Hakeem. Open up the government and stop playing politics

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