According to press reports, the meeting today between Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Donald Trump is “LIT” with the soon-to-be Speaker of the House telling the president that “you will not win” on funding of the border wall:
STAND BY: the Oval spray with Chuck and Nancy is LIT via @justinsink notes. They are arguing in front of the cameras about the Wall, taking petty jabs, Trump threatens shut down… “This has spiraled downward” Pelosi says in the middle of it.
— Shannon Pettypiece (@spettypi) December 11, 2018
Pelosi to Trump in Oval Office on border wall: "you will not win” per @justinsink
— Erik Wasson (@elwasson) December 11, 2018
Trump answered back that he would be “proud” to shut down the government if his demands on the wall are not met:
BREAKING: Trump says he would be "proud" to shut down government over the boarder wall. via @justinsink
— Shannon Pettypiece (@spettypi) December 11, 2018
"I will be the one to shut it down" @POTUS says of the government if he doesn't get adequate border wall funding.
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) December 11, 2018
Pelosi then called it the “Trump shutdown”:
Pelosi calls it a "Trump Shutdown" in the Oval Office.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) December 11, 2018
Trump tweeted earlier that if Congress doesn’t fund the wall, he’d order the military to construct it:
“One way or another, it’s going to get built”
Trump to Pelosi and Schumer on the wall— Debra J. Saunders (@debrajsaunders) December 11, 2018
All of this happened in front of the media:
Incredible argument unfolding now in front of the press between trump, Pelosi and Schumer over votes for border security. Pelosi keeps asking not to discuss it in front of the press. pic.twitter.com/pEEnFhuplY
— Vivian Salama (@vmsalama) December 11, 2018
And, yes, there is video:
STAND BY: the Oval spray with Chuck and Nancy is LIT via @justinsink notes. They are arguing in front of the cameras about the Wall, taking petty jabs, Trump threatens shut down… “This has spiraled downward” Pelosi says in the middle of it.
— Shannon Pettypiece (@spettypi) December 11, 2018
The coming video of the Schumer-Pelosi-Trump argument in Oval is going to be great watching on loop during 10 day government shutdown
— Erik Wasson (@elwasson) December 11, 2018
Video here:
WATCH: Trump, Pelosi, Schumer meet in the Oval Office over border wall funding and a potential government shutdown #tictocnews https://t.co/hbHhAqd0CO
— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) December 11, 2018
Schumer tried to play peacemaker it looks like with a proposal to fund border security but not an actual wall:
Border security is possible without a wall, contends @SenSchumer.
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) December 11, 2018
Exit question: Who blinks?
Nancy Pelosi refuses to give Trump a single penny for his wall. https://t.co/NB3NAuFG74 pic.twitter.com/3snmCLwhGg
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) December 11, 2018
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OUTRAGEOUS! TWO House Dems support a BOYCOTT of Israel, and Nancy Pelosi is SILENT https://t.co/8VmMNrqmjR pic.twitter.com/jJWNmADmgp
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 10, 2018
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