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Laws that are on the books before we start getting to all these other issues. ill let congressman gates explain what hes thinking and who they thought they were, but at the end of the day -- >> but is he right? is immigration a bigger threat? >> i think what hes getting at, there has been gun violence from immigrants. dont we want to prevent all gun violence? right? and dont we want to get to legislative solutions -- >> but do you think building the wall would help prevent gun violence more than...

Perspective, he has been quite reasonable. >> and shelby there, really speaking to the wild card in all of this. essentially, that cloud hanging overall of this conversations, the feeling of what president trump, indeed, would sign. senator shelby confident, many others are not. jake? david urban, one of the problems that senators, republican senators and members of the house have had is that they doesnt know what trump will sign. if they come up with a deal that has $2 billion for steel slat ...

The listing of russian sanctions on companies connected to oligarch. a bipartisan group of 17 lawmakers is making progress on a deal to head off another government shutdown next week, but a source says no one is certain what the president will sign. the white house stating out of t the -- staying out of the talks to this point. but they want a deal done with enough time for the president to process it. mick mulvaney is scheduled to meek with the group this weekend at camp david. he is still wa...

Committee appropriators who do it for a living, i might add, sat down to start the bargaining. i think the bargaining is under way. we understand the parameters of what we have to decide. the briefing yesterday, i think, made it clear that there are things much more important than this presidents almighty wall. slowing down the flow of narcotics to america during the worst drug epidemic in our history is the highest priority to me. that requires technology, not some god awful concrete wall. >> t...

That campaign promise. is, in whatever the compromise is, if there are new barriers to be built, is that something the president can call a wall? >> speaker pelosi put her finger on it. she pointed to a vase of flowers and said, if you put that at the border, hed claim that a wall. hes going to claim a big wall when its over, but its time to get beyond that pettiness. lets get this done for good border security that tries to interdict and stop the flow of narcotics into our country. >> i know yo...

A deal to secure the border. they will need more money for technology and physical barriers. the wild card here is the white house. will president trump be on board with any deal that lands on his desk? lauren fox is on capitol hill. where do things stand at this moment? >> there is still a lot of optimism they will be able to meet a deadline by monday. i talked with the senate appropriations chairman. he told me he was going to meet with the big man. i asked if he was going meet with mcconnell ...

Overheated by the rest of it. if he actually does want to do more on legal immigration, democrats should take yes for an answer on that and see if we can do more on that side of the equation and try to get out of this oncoming train crash. >> the president will go to el paso and will herald how crime has dropped once the wall was built there. crime was going down if, you look at statistics, the wall was allocated in 2006, built in 2008. he has misrepresented that. hes going there monday night. >...

>> the appropriators will negotiate what we call a four corners deal. that is republicans in the house and senate will come to an agreement. the question is will the president support it? the deal will probably be a good one. i suspect members of the freedom caucus, the president will have rezlations about this. whether or not he signs the bill remains a mystery. everybody worked on it. in the final hours the president started trashing the agreement. they are not that far apart. the democrats wa...

President has talked in many different ways about a wall. if theres going to be some sort of a deal, it seems like barriers of some sort in some locations would be one potential compromise. did you hear more on that today? >> of course. and the experts talked to us about the need for barriers in many locations. we have 650 miles of barriers and fences now. we authorized for this president 124 of new and replacement miles. and two years later, hes about to complete the first 14 miles. this takes ...

By tomorrow? >> reporter: they want to give themselves the room and time to move any deal through the who sbus senate before that actual deadline of next friday when we could potentially see another government shutdown without a deal. at this time on thursday of this week, there is not a deal yet. there is the contours of a deal thats slowly starting to come together. we heard that from senator richard shelby, one of the negotiators. he went over to the white house to brief president trump direc...