The Republicans’ Shutdown Strategy
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🗓️ 10 January 2019
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| 0:00.0 | From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarale. This is David. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, in his latest negotiation with Democrats over the shutdown, President Trump stormed out of the meeting. |
| 0:18.0 | Why his strategy requires giving no ground and forcing Republican senators to stand with them, no matter the cost. |
| 0:28.0 | It's Thursday, January 10th. |
| 0:34.0 | Julie Davis. |
| 0:35.0 | Yes. |
| 0:36.0 | It's day 19 of the shutdown. |
| 0:38.0 | How does this latest day of a shutdown begin? |
| 0:42.0 | Well, this is the day after the president's big, primetime address and the Democrats giving their response. |
| 0:48.0 | And what we're beginning to see is the first glimmers of Republican senators being deeply uncomfortable with where they find themselves. |
| 0:56.0 | I spoke with Julie Davis from inside the Capitol. |
| 0:59.0 | So on Wednesday morning, we start to see that Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican Senator from Alaska, is ready to break with President Trump. |
| 1:08.0 | The operations of the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service or the operations of the IRS and whether or not tax refunds go out don't have anything to do with border security. |
| 1:24.0 | And she says we need to reopen the government. |
| 1:27.0 | Federal workers are hurting. |
| 1:29.0 | Americans are going to be affected or are affected already. |
| 1:32.0 | And this is crazy. |
| 1:33.0 | We just need to by for keep the two issues get the government open and then we can keep negotiating. |
| 1:38.0 | But we don't need to hold up these six other departments at the same time that we are resolving these very important security issues along the way. |
| 1:48.0 | So break with the president and his strategy publicly. |
| 1:52.0 | And she's not the first Republican who's come out and suggested this. |
| 1:56.0 | Colorado's Republican Senator Cory Gardner is breaking with President Trump on the government shutdown. |
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