GERALDO RIVERA: When the president called me the last time I was on the program two weeks ago, he talked about the economy and how it was thriving and how people were being hired. And he didn't even mention the whole news about Apple, and the $250 billion coming back, and the bonuses being offered by Apple and other employees, and all of the good news that's happening. The one thing I did say in the conversation with the president without telling tales out of school is if I were you I'd be talking about it every day. Look, everything's great. It's supposed to be about the economy, so I think everything's great. It's better, more people working, minority employment up, bonuses up, wages up. That's what we should be talking about, but instead for whatever reason we're talking about these petty, snotty things. And whether -- is it about [the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program] DACA? Is it about the president saying “shithole” when he was describing African nations reportedly? I don’t know.
STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): Let's try to keep it clean for the morning.
BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): Yeah. Geraldo, here's the thing though.
RIVERA: OK, I admit it, I apologize for that. But let me tell you this. If I was in a room with [Sen.] Dick Durbin [(D-IL)], and I said something out of line, as sometimes people do, and that senator then ratted me out and then torpedoed the very legislation that he was championing to make a point. Oh, I got him. I nabbed him. He said that dirty word, and now nothing he's ever going to do is any good because he's a bad per-. So what Dick Durbin did was to score the point that the president had perhaps used an off-color remark in describing the quality of life in a nation where immigrants are dying every year to escape from, or continent, then where are we? I think that the fact -- and the reason I do this circular thing is that I believe that Dick Durbin ratting out the president about the characterization of the nations where the immigrants are coming from --
DOOCY: Ended the negotiations.
RIVERA: Is part of the same process whereby the Republicans and the Democrats can't agree to make progress on keeping the government open. Why don't they have a budget? My family has a budget. Your family has a budget. Why is it that the government can't have a budget.
