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Criticizing Trump, Pelosi highlights the president’s walkout in weekly press briefing

By Jinitzail Hernández
Posted January 10, 2019 at 11:31pm

By Jinitzail Hernandez

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Pelosi: ‘I don’t even know if the president wants the wall’ “I think the meeting was a setup so he could walkout,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Thursday, referring to a Wednesday meeting at the White House regarding the continued government shutdown over border wall funding. Continuing, the speaker said she would like to “correct the record” about when the president walked out of that meeting. Listen for her remarks.

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