FOX News chief political analyst Brit Hume reacted to the deal to end the shutdown and reopen the government on Monday’s “Special Report.”

BRET BAIER, ‘SPECIAL REPORT’ HOST: Brit, let me start with you. Your thoughts of the political moment here and what we’ve seen and started to see inside the Democratic Party today. BRIT HUME, FOX NEWS: Well, this whole shutdown was a fool’s errand from the start. This strategy has been tried a number of times before where you try to use the government shutdown and the pressure to get the government reopened as a lever to get something done you couldn’t get done by the normal process because you didn’t have the votes. It has never worked. It was never going to work. And, you know, the Democrats, yes, there was some polling that indicated that the Democrats were less, were getting less of the blame than the Republicans. But remember this, key elements in the Democratic Party, American Association, American Federation of Government Employees, the Teamsters Union, the Airline Workers Union, the Pilots Union, they were all urging that the Republican measure, the temporary measure, be passed. And, of course, as the air traffic situation began to get worse and the deprivation of SNAP benefits set in, it became absolutely untenable, which when you think about it, it really was from the start. It really wasn’t about enhanced ACA benefits. It was about Democrats wanting to position themselves in resistance and opposition to Donald Trump in every way they could do or appear to do.

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