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Between the government shutdown and the resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, the liberal media have been quick to claim they smell President Trump’s blood in the water. Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd said as much during an appearance on NBC’s Sunday Today where he predicted Trump would cave on the border wall to end the government “shutdown” and the “functional end” to Trump’s presidency because of Mattis’ departure.
Todd touted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for “throwing up his hands and saying, ‘you know what, Mr. President, you live with this. It's on you. We're going home.’” He pitched it as “a more significant break than I think people realize here”.
“He doesn't have any leverage,” Todd declared. “It's -- nothing's going to reopen I think at this point – unless the President caves, and he might. I actually think he might because what's -- he's got to decide what's a worst look, caving while Republicans still control both the House and the Senate or caving when Nancy Pelosi holds the gavel on January 3rd.”
Anchor Willie Geist mockingly added: “And now he's saying, ‘I'll take anything that resembles a wall. Steel slats, something, just let me call it a wall.’”
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