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From capitol hill. >> reporter: has the partial government shutdown enters its third week, it is clear that there is no end in sight. you have negotiators on both sides deeply entrenched. both are playing to bases that dont want negotiations, bases that didnt want compromise. and as it currently stands, there is no clear pathway out of this. why that matters is because the pain of the partial government shutdown is going to start to be felt. it is interesting, over the course of the last couple ...

Slogan is getting worn out from overuse. mike pence and kirstjen nielsen laying the ground work for the president to possibly declare a national emergency to get the wall built using military funds. at a press briefing, they used the word crisis 37 times. >> the president vowing to keep the government shut down until he gets his wall however long that takes. meantime hundreds of thousands of federal workers brace to miss their first full paycheck on friday, thats right, midnight tuesday the dead...

Workers brace to miss their first full pay check on friday. congressional correspondent phil mattingly with the latest from capitol hill. >> reporter: as the partial government shutdown enters its third week, it is very clear that there is no end in sites. you have negotiators on both sides deeply enfrench trenched building a bridge to try to figure out a solution. both are playing to bases that dont want compromise and as it currently stands, there is no clear pathway out of this. why are that ...

Promote president trumps shifting foreign policy initiative. the national security advisor john bolton met with turkish leadership to discuss the plan to withdraw troops from syria. bolton laid out two conditions. first isis must be completely destroyed. second the turkish government must ensure the safety of syrian kurds. bolton erdogan decided not to meet with bolton and spoke with his parliament, making sure turkey will not protect the kurds, a group they view as terrorists. spokesperson for ...

Hey, trey. >> bill, the trump administration is making a blitz across the middle east to promote president trumps shifting foreign policy initiative. today, national security advisor john bolton meeting with turkish leadership to discuss the administrations plan to withdraw u.s. troops from syria. earlier in the week, while in israel, bolton laid out two key conditions for the u.s. withdrawal to occur. first isis must be completely destroyed. second, the turkish government must ensure the safety...

Preside president the united states will leave syria. he refused to meet with him and said turkey will agree to no such deal. >> regarding this matter bolton has made a serious mistake. its not possible to make compromises on this point. >> erdogan views the kurdish fighters in syria as terrorists. kurdish officials said fighters will take on a turkish military operation in northern syria. a spokesperson for erdogan said turkey would like to see u.s. bases in syria. national security officials d...

The president and his team making sure border security negotiations come before the government re-opens. there were talks over the weekend between vice president pence, top capitol hill staffers, they did not receive or end up in an outcome of any way. what they did end up with is the administration for the first time laying out in detail its $5.7 billion wall proposal. why that matters more than anything else, besides the fact the administration put something on paper is because they did not mo...

This fight as it moves into its third week. over on the democratic side, they have made clear their position and also that they want to move on their own efforts to re-open the government. the house, house democratic speaker nancy pelosi is going to start moving individual funding bills for the shuttered agencies. in the senate, senate democrats are considering not voting to move forward on any legislation until legislation to address the shutdown is considered. what that all means right now, ba...

>> yes, but many have zeroed in on susan collins and tom tillis, saying, we dont want a part of this. people say there are a lot of senate republicans in 2020. most of those are from trump states, very red states and are very comfortable being behind trump right now. i dont think those are the drivers. when you have someone like tom tillis who perhaps worked on immigration issues before would say, look, we have to work something out. what we said earlier is interesting, too. both sides will at s...

Good morning. what did the words of john bolton tell you about u.s. toops? >> it tells me that the president made the first step, of course, to say that eventually we need to get out of syria. there wont be bases in the future, not a long project. he wanted to see turkey doing more against isis. but then, of course, the national security apparatus of the u.s. studied the situation and found out that although this is the goal, we need to put some conditions. first condition absolutely is to termi...