Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump of being a “hostage taker” amid the partial government shutdown over border security wall funding. Hirono said she is now looking to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to present a compromising bill to the Senate because Trump is so “locked into his position” that is holding “over 800,000 people hostage.” “[W]e can end this shutdown right now if Mitch McConnell will bring the House-passed bills to the floor because those bills represent a compromise already — bills that the Senate also passed last year,” Hirono explained on CNN’s “New Day.” [READ MORE HERE]