The televised portion of the meeting between Trump and the Schumer/Pelosi tag team was very informative. Here's a key portion of the conversation reported by ABC:
When Schumer said to Trump, "You said 'I will shut down the government if I don't get my wall'," Trump shot back, "I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck. People in this country don't want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country. I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I won't blame you for it. The last time, you shut it down. It didn't work. I will take the mantle of shutting it down.
"I'm going to shut it down for border security," the president said.
The take away was that it was obvious that Schumer was just fine with a shutdown so long as Trump got blamed for it. Schumer couldn't have done a better job of advertising that his goal isn't to benefit the country but to hurt Trump.
It's all partisan politics.
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2:09 PM 12/12/2018
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