Chuck Schumer, you can't wake up one day and say you're going to try to blame it on the Republicans, and then on the next day, you're trying to say that, gee whiz, we know, we know that we're causing these problems. They're admitting they're causing suffering on people, but they're doing it for leverage. And they can't even explain what that leverage is because they just need to show their radical base that they're having a fight with Donald Trump. (16:45–16:51)
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Asserts that Democrats acknowledge causing suffering during the shutdown for political leverage.
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