Trump Gives Take On Possible Government Shutdown: 'If It Closes, It's Purely On The Democrats'

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Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump assigned any blame for a potential government shutdown on Senate Democrats.

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00:00We're looking at an impending government shutdown Friday midnight.

00:08Democrats for 30 years straight have said if there's a shutdown, bad things happen.

00:13Do you anticipate direct negotiations yourself with conference leader of the Democrats, Chuck

00:21Schumer?

00:22If they need me, I'm there 100 percent.

00:24Right now it's two or three people.

00:29If it shuts down, it's not the Republicans fault.

00:31You know, we passed a bill where we had an incredible Republican vote.

00:37We only had one negative vote, a grandstander, you know, one grandstander.

00:41There's always a grandstander in the lot.

00:44But it was amazing.

00:46People were amazed that the Republicans were able to vote in unison like that.

00:50So so strongly.

00:53If there's a shutdown, even the Democrats admit it'll be their fault.

00:58And I'm hearing a lot of Democrats are going to vote for it, and I hope they do.

01:01This is an extension.

01:03But ultimately, we want to vote for one big, beautiful bill where we put the taxes in,

01:07we put everything in.

01:08We're going to have big tax cuts.

01:11We're going to have tremendous incentives for companies coming into our country and

01:15employing lots of people.

01:17It'll be I called it in a rare moment.

01:23One big, beautiful bill.

01:24That's what I like.

01:25And it seems to be that's where they're heading.

01:28And we'll have to take care of something to do with Los Angeles, a place called Los Angeles

01:32almost burned to the ground.

01:33By the way, I broke into Los Angeles.

01:36Can you believe it?

01:37I had a break in.

01:38I, I invaded Los Angeles and we opened up the water and the water is now flowing down.

01:44They have so much water.

01:45They don't know what to do.

01:46They were sending it out to the Pacific for environmental reasons.

01:50OK, can you believe it?

01:52And in the meantime, they lost twenty five thousand houses.

01:55They lost.

01:56And nobody's ever seen anything like it.

01:58But we have the water.

02:01I'd love to show you a picture.

02:02You've seen the picture.

02:03The water is flowing through the half pipes.

02:06You know, we have the big half pipes that go down used to twenty five years ago.

02:09They used to have plenty of water, but they turned it off for again, for environmental

02:13reasons.

02:14Well, I turned it on for environmental reasons and also fire reasons.

02:18But and I've been asking them to do that during my first term.

02:22I said, do it.

02:23I didn't think anything like could happen like this, but they didn't have enough water.

02:27Now the farmers are going to have water for their land and the water is in there.

02:32But I actually had to break in.

02:33We broke in to do it because we had people that were afraid to give water.

02:39They were in particular.

02:40They were trying to protect a certain little fish.

02:44And I say, how do you protect the fish if you don't have water?

02:47They didn't have any water.

02:48So they're protecting a fish.

02:50And that didn't work out too well, by the way.

02:53So they have a lot of water going down throughout California, all coming out from the Pacific

02:58Northwest, even some from Canada.

03:01Thank you, Canada, very much.

03:02I appreciate it.

03:03Next thing you know, they'll want to turn the water off.

03:05They want to charge us for the water.

03:07But it comes up from the Pacific Northwest.

03:09And it's it's a beautiful thing to see.

03:11I mean, it is brimming with water.

03:14Now, if they would have had that done, you wouldn't have had the damage because the fire

03:18would have been put out.

03:19The fire hydrants would have been loaded.

03:21The sprinklers in people's living rooms and bedrooms would have been loaded up with what

03:25they had.

03:26No water.

03:27The government makes them put sprinklers and they had no water in the sprinklers because

03:30they had no water.

03:32So the water is flowing and we're going to have to give a lot of money to Los Angeles

03:40to help them.

03:41And the Democrats are going to want to do that.

03:43So that's the one thing different.

03:45And frankly, I think that makes it a lot easier.

03:47But one of the the big thing is we have the big, beautiful bill.

03:51We got to get that done.

03:53And that will put our our country in a position like it's never been.

03:56It's a reduction of taxes.

03:59It's tremendous incentives for companies to come from all over the world into our country.

04:05It's great environmentally.

04:07But it's not this environmental scam that we went through that we all went through.

04:12It provides for everything.

04:13It's a big, beautiful bill, and I hope we can get it approved.

04:16And that'll be next.

04:17In the meantime, we have the continuing resolution and the Republicans have approved it.

04:24And now the Democrats have to approve it.

04:26And I hope they will.

04:28And I think a lot of them, I can tell you, they want to.

04:32I've spoken to some of them.

04:33They really want to.

04:35Their leadership may not want them to.

04:37And if it closes, it's purely on the Democrats.

Trump Gives Take On Possible Government Shutdown: 'If It Closes, It's Purely On The Democrats'

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