\u201cDemocrats should not give an inch,\u201d former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said Sunday when asked about the resolution of the partial government shutdown.<\/p>\n
Referring to President Donald Trump as the \u201cangry, emotional, unstable man sitting in the White House,\u201d McAuliffe told CNN\u2019s Dana Bash on \u201cState of the Union\u201d that Trump and his fellow Republicans are fully to blame for the shutdown \u2014 and that everybody knows the border wall at the crux of the shutdown dispute won\u2019t be built.<\/p>\n
\u201cDonald Trump owns this, he said he wanted to own it in the December meeting in the Oval Office,\u201d McAuliffe said, referring to a televised meeting that Trump held with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe,\u201d McAuliffe said, \u201cwe can get to a place where we can have immigration reform tied together with border security. And that’s what we ought to do moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
McAuliffe, whose home state of Virginia stands to be one of the hardest hit by the shutdown since it is where so many government workers reside, has long been a vociferous critic of Trump.<\/p>\n
In an interview rife with a variety of insults lobbed at the president \u2014 McAuliffe called Trump\u2019s Twitter response to the death of child migrants in U.S. custody "the lowest act I have ever seen\u201d \u2014 Bash repeatedly told McAuliffe he sounded like a 2020 presidential candidate and asked him whether he would declare his candidacy here and now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m obviously looking at it,\u201d said McAuliffe in declining to take the opportunity Bash gave him, before saying voters want \u201cresults.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don\u2018t want an angry liar in the White House,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n