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First, lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, we heard from the president just before he left the white house for texas. >> reporter: thats right, wolf. president trump is starting to dig in his heels all over again as the deadline approaches for another government shutdown. the president is on his way to el paso, texas, at this hour, to pitch his border wall one more time. theres one other sticking point in the shutdown talks that also goes to the heart of the immigrat...

Whip last hour and he said the situation is this. were giving something in these negotiations hinting, i think, democrats will allow some new money for some new barriers. were giving that. we want something in return. in return what they support a democratic priority where there are fewer detentions in the interior. >> if thats right and if theyre willing to give something and something can be called a wall or fence or something that gets into the semantics for republicans and trump, then that c...

To think of something by the end of the day. phil, help us? >> reporter: its a good lesson, right? at the end of last week, everybody was very optimistic that this negotiation was on the path to an agreement, there wouldnt be another shutdown, all the spending talks could essentially be taken off the table for a period of time and then everything blew up, which, again, is a good lesson that nothing is agreed to until something is agreed to. its nothing about the barriers or walls or funding for ...

Populist perspective the popular them, positive is about putting power into peoples hands. political power so the voices are heard and economic power so they can choose the life they want to lead. for a while i wanted to say what i think about race in america as an immigrant, outsider and as a believer positive populism. i know that what i say will be controversial but when you listen with an open mind. race should not be a left, right issue but feels like that. liberals can offend conservatives...

Year they have ever had. almost 40,000 killings in mexico this year. one of the most unsafe places unfortunately. we need a wall. the other things are nice to have. but without a wall, its not going to work. we can have technology, we have beautiful drones flying all over the place. but it doesnt work without the wall. we need a wall. we can call it anything. we can call it, barriers, whatever they want. now it turns out not only dont they want to give us the money for the wall, they dont want t...

Which raises the possibility more wont show up for court hearings. >> its negotiation. quotations seldom go smooth all the way through. its give-and-take and compromise. its the way government is supposed to work. weve got good people on this conference committee. german shelby, john holden, durban, i can go down the list. the bottom line is weve got people who arent bomb throwers. people who know how to work together to get a deal. im not positive we will get a deal but with this group of peopl...

What they want is they want the president and they want ice to detain and deport criminals. listen here. >> we dont want this administration to use those detention beds as a way of punishing people that come to this country seeking asylum or somehow seeking safe haven. theyve been doing that. we want them to prioritize the use of those beds for people that are dangerous. >> republicans want to increase the number of those detention beds in addition to some new border fencing, especially in texas...

Which raises the possibility more wont show up for court hearings. >> its negotiation. quotations seldom go smooth all the way through. its give-and-take and compromise. its the way government is supposed to work. weve got good people on this conference committee. german shelby, john holden, durban, i can go down the list. the bottom line is weve got people who arent bomb throwers. people who know how to work together to get a deal. im not positive we will get a deal but with this group of peopl...

Populist perspective the popular them, positive is about putting power into peoples hands. political power so the voices are heard and economic power so they can choose the life they want to lead. for a while i wanted to say what i think about race in america as an immigrant, outsider and as a believer positive populism. i know that what i say will be controversial but when you listen with an open mind. race should not be a left, right issue but feels like that. liberals can offend conservatives...

I can tell you that generally speaking the black committee, were not sitting around talking about environmental policy. we want our kids to go to college. we want to put food on the table and want to be property owners and want to be constructive, contributes incidents to society and these barriers that havent thrown up against us by the government and by other issues removed. that is what we want. this is another case of the democrat party being way, way, way out of touch with what the american...