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Colleague ted liu said about it yesterday. >> i can confirm what many people know. nancy pelosi is a bad ass and thats why were doing so well in the negotiations. there are discussions about additional physical barriers in some places. well see how those discussions go. but the wall that donald trump envisions, that is not part of the discussion. >> first of all, do you think nancy pelosi is a bad -- no im kidding. should the american people -- >> no. i think nancy is wonderful. i want that on t...

They need people, they need technology, they need barriers. we need to do a permanent -- i think what i like is to fix everything. fix that, welcome our dreamers, permanent solution for tps. but id start the path. what i did as governor what could i get done today, and i did it, and i went forward with the next thing. >> you know, there is a compromise on the shelf. in fact, your colleague marco rubio in the senate was one of the -- essentially one of the sponsors and organizers of it. the gang ...

In america is for so long, policy was designed to be about corporations. to really not be about the people. i think there is a real shift towards the people. if we want to talk about progressive values, we are talking about policies and ideas that are about lifting all of us up. really breaking down the structural inequalities, barriers to people being able to have the same opportunities in this country. i like to think of it as the democratic party moving and shifting toward a more people-centr...

For breaking down the barriers that they did and of course before that shirley chisholm, jesse jackson and others. so im particularly proud of it, of that as a democrat. i hope that the number of people that are in this race does not portend very contentious primary season but i am glad to see the diversity that we have. >> sure at this point. so, susan, in a new interview with cbs the president was asked about cory bookers entrance into the race. watch what he said. >> senator cory booker annou...

Talking about, he said barrier, but he really deemphasized the wall. he talked much more about we need border security and so if he -- if they can talk him off of the specifically the wall concept, if they can convince him -- he tweeted the other day that the wall was already being built, that we just needed to finish it. >> he reiterated it yesterday, right? unclear whether that is -- its being disputed. its not new wall. it may be repairs to existing barriers. but yesterday, you know, from tha...

Jeopardy, which we are not. no, he does not stick to all of the above. it is, there are at the border all of the above. go to the border. there are barriers, there are steel fencing if you will, theres the rio grande. he doesnt say that. let me say what he doesnt say as well. he cost the nation $11 billion in the shutdown. the democrats, leadership in the democrats of the house voted on hr 79 and said we wont do that. we dont believe in that, we dont believe in holding federal workers hostages. ...

Negotiating that finish its work, come to a compromise, keep the government open and lets move onto a lot of other business that the country needs. >> the president portraying it as finishing it, basically hes trying to pretend that his wall, the wall that he campaigned on, the one he said mexico would pay for has already started to be built when its just updating the fencing that has existed, been voted on in the past. there is no new wall of the presidents thats begun. >> i think hes also maki...

Ability if you will to put barriers or fencing, those areas that are on private land, those areas that face the rio grande, what we are saying is we want to be appropriate, thoughtful, and listen to the experts dealing with the question. the president wants a fight. he only wants to be political. he doesnt have any guardrail of leadership that allow him to sit down and understand to do the best plan. >> he has changed his jargon a few times, hell say if not a wall, then a fence, a barrier, et ce...

Said. you know, the secure fence act authorized 700 miles of vehicular and pedestrian barriers in the southern border. 650 miles have been built. the president said 115 miles. i dont know if hes talking about additional barriers or replacing existing barriers. >> thats what they have been doing and all along, going back to mulvaney gave a press conference where he showed photos of what they called the new wall that was being built and it was just replacing existing fencing. >> thats my understan...

As finishing it, basically hes trying to pretend that his wall, the wall that he campaigned on, the one he said mexico would pay for has already started to be built when its just updating the fencing that has existed, been voted on in the past. there is no new wall of the presidents thats begun. >> i think hes also making the point that barriers that secure our borders are not immoral. when speaker pelosi says that im not going to give you a dollar now and im not going to give you a dollar ever,...