The break in the impasse allowed the reopening of parts of the government that had been shuttered for 35 days. I’ve set the stage for doing what I’m going to do,” Trump said in a sweeping interview with The New York Times’ Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman. “I’ll continue to build the wall, and we’ll get the wall finished,” he told the Times. They understand what a humanitarian crisis it is.”The Times noted that their interview took place after Trump himself reached out to the newspaper’s publisher, A.G. Sulzberger, and asked for a private dinner. Sulzberger said no to the invitation and offered an on-the-record chat with two Times reporters present, and Trump agreed.

Source: Huffington Post February 01, 2019 03:10 UTC