The president was far different with Pelosi and Schumer on Tuesday when the White House doors were closed and the press corps not invited.
By Paul Kane Paul Kane Senior congressional correspondent and columnist Email Bio Follow April 30 at 6:07 PM House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer had a very clear wish on the eve of Tuesday’s meeting with President Trump: No cameras, no live TV.
But the meeting served as the latest example of how differently Trump acts around House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer , depending on the optics. “It’s not easy for her to talk right now,” Trump said to the cameras in a December meeting as Pelosi sat next to him. He insulted her by suggesting she would not to win the speaker’s race a few weeks off.This week’s meeting had all the echoes of a September 2017 meeting with just Schumer, Pelosi, Trump and some senior aides discussing a broad range of issues related to immigration.
For a brief moment, Trump stopped talking about immigrants in harsh tones. Schumer even signaled that Democrats would support $25 billion to fund new border security, including some wall and fencing, with a path to citizenship open for 1.8 million immigrants brought illegally here as children. Republicans considered the meeting a disaster because Trump brought the White House press corps into the Oval Office for a vast portion of the meeting and took ownership on camera of what turned into the 35-day government shutdown that followed.For 17 minutes, Trump, Pelosi and Schumer squared off on the need for $5 billion to fund the president’s border-wall demands, often in personal terms about their own political standing.
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