Atlanta Mayor on the Shutdown: ‘What the President Put Forth Was Not Reasonable’

EXCERPT:

BALDWIN: "Quickly just on the theatrics, your word, you know, the president over the weekend put forth this deal and the Republican -- the Democrats outright rejected it. They didn’t even put forth a counter-offer."
BOTTOMS: "Well, any time that you’re negotiating -- I was a judge for many years and I’m also an attorney -- you have to start at a point of something that’s reasonable and what the president put forth was not reasonable. So, I --"
BALDWIN: "Wasn’t he at least moving an inch and the Democrats didn’t mirror that?"
BOTTOMS: "Well, if you move an inch but you’ve already taken us back ten miles then what difference does it make? I think that when the president puts something forth that’s reasonable, then we can have a reasonable conversation on how we end this shutdown."