Louie Gohmert: “It has been an interesting day, perhaps more than most. We have heard over and over again about Republicans supposedly…”

“It has been an interesting day, perhaps more than most. We have heard over and over again about Republicans supposedly causing the shutdown, but in my days as a trial lawyer, judge, chief justice, it is always good to look at the evidence. And the evidence is very clear. You had Republicans in the House and Senate and the President actually pass a spending bill in the House before the end of December, and the only thing that was keeping it from getting through the Senate was that Democrats there, led by Senator Schumer, would not negotiate. They arrived at no agreement to get 60 votes so that it could go forward with debate. That wasn't the Republicans. In the position of the White House, President Trump made clear: This is negotiable, but we do need wall, we need barrier. Call it whatever you want. He moved from talking about concrete to talking about the steel barrier. And having spent time with some other Members of Congress, invited by Congressman Biggs and Congressman Gosar down to the Arizona border, we saw a lot of it. And then it would just end. And then you saw a clear path right around the end of it as people kept coming, invading this country illegally. From the border patrolmen, it was clear some were carrying big loads of drugs. Sometimes they are able to catch them, sometimes they are not.…”