and jerry conley weighs in. then another joins us to talk about border security. watch "washington journal" at 7:00 a.m. on wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> on day 18 of the government shut-down president spoke to the nation from the oval office about what he calls a humanitarian and security crisis on the southern border. this is about 10 minutes. >> my fellow americans tonight i am speaking to you because there is a growing humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border. every day, customs and border patrol agent encounter thousands of illegal immigrants trying to ter our country. we are out of space to hold them, and we have no way to promptly return them back home to their country. america proudly welcomes millions of lawful immigrants who enrich our society and contribute to our nation. but all americans are hurt by uncontrolled illegal migration. it strains public resources and drives down jobs and wages. among those hardest hitter african-americans and hispanic americans. our southern border is a pipeline for vast quanlts of illegal drugs

his virginia seat liet across the potomacinia seat liet >> democrat jerry conley joins us now. one of the highest numbers of congressman, after last nightsl tooling addresses from the president and nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, are we closer to ending the shutdown? >> what shocked me about the president's remarks was if you just watch them and he didn't know anything, you'd never know we were in the middle of the second longest government shutdown in american history. i thought that was a shameful part of the presentation. the crisis we are in is the shutdown of the government and the furloughing of almost 800,000 federal employees plus lots of federal contractors and their services increasingly being denied the american people as a result. he chose to just talk about the wall. i think that was a huge disservice to the country by the president. >> is there any deal to be had here? >> i think the deal that's increasingly attractive is, let's reopen government and let start a series of conversations about border security, the wall can be part of that conversation. but, if you m

we talked about this before, in the next hour, we'll speak with the congressman jerry conley, who says he's already seen enough, just with the president being an unindicted co-conspirator in the cohen file. >> look, i mean, donald trump is obviously extremely unpopular with the base of the democratic party. it's understandable there are people who want him out of office any way possible, and, you know, are letting their passion probably get a little ahead of themselves and not considering the kind of blowback that can come from these kinds of actions. we've seen this in history when there has been overreach. so i think the position that nancy ploels pelosi has staked which is the position of the democratic party at this point, you need to wait for the investigation. and if we get to a point where you have a president who has been indicted, for example, then yes, you should start looking at possibly impeaching him. but i don't think based on what they have in front of them at this point, that there are any impeachable offenses that, at least as far as i think the average american will l

host: we will leave it there, jerry conley, a democrat from virginia. thank you. up next week we'll continue our discussion of day 19 of the government shut down with nebraska republican congressman, don bacon. we will be right back. ♪ >> sunday on q&a, author and columnist james grant -- james grant. >> it's a called grant's interest rate observer, which is a quest to -- i think the trouble lies not so much in wall street. wall street is what it is. that has been revered, but mostly infamous. it has been there for most of american history. what we ought to be more on our guard about are the issues and the federal government that are validly denied in their intentions. the department of treasury, the fed, the security exchange commission, these have been set public,nefactors to the and increasingly they are not so. atjames grant, sunday night 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> c-span, where history unfold daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, t

and jerry conley weighs in. then another joins us to talk about border security. watch "washington journal" at 7:00 a.m. on wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> on day 18 of the government shut-down president spoke to the nation from the oval office about what he calls a humanitarian and security crisis on the southern border. this is about 10 minutes. >> my fellow americans tonight i am speaking to you because there is a growing humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border. every day, customs and border patrol agent encounter thousands of illegal immigrants trying to ter our countr