.MaddowBlog: Pres. Trump tells Democrats to choose between oversight and legislating.
In early January, in the midst of the longest government shutdown in American history, Donald Trump agreed to meet with congressional Democratic leaders. It didn’t last long: Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the president he wouldn’t receive congressional support for a giant border wall, which led him to slam the table and storm out of the room.
“I walked into the room and I told Senator Schumer and House Speaker Pelosi, ‘I want to do infrastructure, I want to do more than you want to do it,’” Trump said. “ ‘But, you know what? You can’t do it under these conditions.’” Second, we already know the president’s excuse – he won’t work with lawmakers investigating his scandals – is demonstrably false. Indeed, Trump sat down with Democratic leaders three weeks ago to work on an infrastructure deal, and there were several ongoing congressional investigations underway at the time. He never said a word about derailing oversight as a precondition to legislating on this or any other issue.
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