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Shutdown went nowhere yesterday. casey stegall is live for us from the border in mcallen. stacy? casey? >> hey, harris. there are a number of dignitaries also there on the ground at the airport to greet the president. among those being the lieutenant governor of texas, dan patrick, and also the attorney general of texas, ken paxton. you got a pretty packed agenda for the short time he is on the ground, once he lands and gets off the plane. he will caravan over to that roundtable location where h...

Pass the stopgap spending bill by tomorrow evening. funding most of the government through september. then what the plan would do is separate the department of homeland security, which overseas the border and only fund that for a few weeks. the strategy there would be to re-open the government while admitting there is more negotiation to be done between the party on border issues. politically to stick republicans for the shutdown if they wont even do that. this, you may have noticed, is vintage ...

President has pretty successfully been able to drive the narrative himself is overwhelmingly through twitter over the last couple of years. when he over torques it, it can have an affect on the market and issues that could be pivotal for him in the next few months as we head towards what is the 2020 season. on the messaging front, the tragedy of not just one but two childrens deaths, the second child for what is being determined to have been the flu is going to add a new element to the oversight...

But theyre passing through very quickly and going to their sponsors, and were doing everything we can to support that. were coordinating with our hospitals. if they need ambulance care, were providing that as well. >> it sounds like youre -- >> but yeah. >> youre asking for an adult conversation between republicans and democrats to deal with a whole host of issues involved here, rather than, you know, dealing with it like bumper stickers. do i have that right? you want an adult conversation and ...

And thats what were doing. but the generosity of el paso is unsurpassed. were able to provide that support. >> forgive me, though. is that a burden that should be that of a city like el paso, to take in -- i mean, its tremendous charity work, in effect, that many of these organizations are doing. from your view as mayor of this city, is that a burden that should be on your shoulders? >> well, lets back it up. the problem is the fact that the folks in washington, d.c. on both sides of the aisle h...

The president held a lunch meeting on border issues with 7 lawmakers, all republicans. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer released a statement today where they said that as long as the president is guided by the house freedom caucus, its unlikely they will come up with a solution that could pass both the house and the senate. >> thanks. the national christmas tree went dark over the weekend due to the partial government shutdown. not so for the north american aerospace defense command who tracks san...

Welcome to you both. what do you make of the president connecting the french terror attacks to our border issues? some people found that an appropriate. >> i dont think it was inappropriate. terrorists are arrested every day and on the southwest border, some were arrested by border patrol so there are people that once to do harm to the country entering the country illegally. some across the southern border. it is not so far-fetched the president would say something like that. shannon: we talked ...

Are talking about, are things democrats have already done. there are 16,000 border patrol agents on the border. theres 700 miles fencing right now. the bill that passed the senate appropriation committee would add 375 new border guards another 70 miles of fencing. schumers in a good place on this. i think we just saw the president move a little bit. will there be a shut down? its possible. i think in the end youre going to see 1.3 to $1.6 billion, not the $5 billion. >> if there is a partial shu...

Likelihood, especially when you have democratic opposition to this where they can drag their feet a bit in these hearings with back and forth, with the justice department in negotiations and whether theyre going to make deputy attorney general rod rosenstein available for these kind of hearings. subpoenaing him, versus subpoenaing a former government official is a much more complicated process. if he doesnt want to testify, i think its a lot harder for them to force his appearance moving, you kn...

Funding boosted from $1.6 billion where its at right now up to maybe $5 billion. keep in mind, while the republicans still control congress for the course of the next month and a half or so, democrats, they still need democratic votes in the senate to move anything forward. if the president draws a red line, if senate republicans draw a red line, were absolutely headed for a shutdown. thats the negotiation going on behind the scenes and that, guys is still very much an open question. >> what str...