Msnbc -guestheer chris hayes grilled senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., about his ineffective resistance against President Donald Trump and congress republicans.
Schumer, who is confronted with calls to resign from colleague -democrats afterwards Voting next to Republicans For a continuous resolution (CR) to keep the federal government open on Friday, he defended his decision for the MSNBC host on “All in with Chris Hayes” Tuesday evening.
The minority leader claimed that Trump’s popularity is still too high for Democrats to have effective leverage against his agenda, and that Democrats “must stay” there “to expel his popularity.
“We started this day in, day out, every day, ruthless fighting. His figures have started to fall from 51 to 47. If we stay with them, and stay with them, and his figures will remain much lower. He will not only be less popular, but less effective,” Schumer claimed.
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Senate removal leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., is confronted with the recoil of various prominent democrats about his decision to choose the Republicans and to vote for a continuous resolution to keep the federal government open. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty images)
Schumer also noted that Democrats “will find the moments when we should not give them voices”, and although this would probably end in a government closure, Democrats “will” have the higher ground and we will do it, “he claims,” ​​look at us at. “
The MSNBC -Gastheer responded and claimed that these would be good political movements “if Mitt Romney was president”, but not under a Trump presidency that “is” ambitious trying to grab all power and create a presidential dictatorship in the United States. “
Schumer was then asked what his plan would be if Democrats were unable to defeat Trump’s preference a few points, the key to obtaining leverage about Republicans, according to Schumer.
“What happens then?” Asked Hayes.
“What happens, look, look, first we get it far down, he will have much less. We, this worked in 2017. You say it is” now another government, “Schumer replied.
“However, it is different,” Hayes interrupted and added, “my God.”
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Schumer has put a compilation of prominent democrats such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Huismertheid leader Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Nancy Pelosi criticized his decision to vote for the Trump-Stunder CR Bill. (Screenshot/msnbc)
Later in the interview, Hayes Schumer placed in the hot chair, so that he would endure a compilation of prominent Democrats that denounces his decision to support the CR Bill supported by Trump.
“Just purely at the level of how the tactic has brought us so far, I want to play part of the criticism again, not from like, back seat drivers or not from me on cable news, but people like Hakeem Jeffries or Nancy Pelosi. Listen,” Hayes said.
The last clip of the compilation Rep. Nancy PelosiD-Calif., Say: “I, myself, give anything away for nothing. And I think that’s what happened recently.”
Pelosi’s comments took a reaction from Schumer, which objected to the criticisms of the former speaker of the house.
“They would not negotiate with us, so there were only two choices. It would be nice if we had a third choice,” Schumer claimed.
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The minority leader of the Senate continued to claim that a closure of the government would have been worse than passing the CR account.
