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Senate in the first instance what is president trumps bottom line. will he accept a deal on the dreamers and give republicans cover for giving them legal status? >> jon: if you touch a hot stove you get burned. who got burned and more is more likely to bend a little bit in this circumstance on the dreamers question? >> thats the classic washington question. the consensus at the moments is democrats got burned and they will pay the price. i think weve also learned having gone through these things...

Im very nervous that this president who previously tweeted out about a good government shutdown is taking us in that direction. >> so youre a no on this without a daca deal. there are some of your fellow democrats -- >> im a no on this unless we resolve all the issues i talked about, community health senators, veterans, opioid crisis, lots of issues that should have been decided last september. >> youre very much a no on this including if it doesnt include daca. here was my point. joe manchin in...

Direction toward government shutdown. >> you brought up the military. one of the things the president and some republicans say is amnesty or funding for d.r.e.a.m.ers, protections for dreamers are more important for democrats than protecting the military, that if you shut down this government over the issues you brought up right there, youre hurting the military. how do you respond? >> whats hurting the military is this two-week by two-week resolution. they cant do any planning. you have people ...

I think that it is a last resort. but were willing to discuss the issues confronting d.r.e.a.m.ers. were willing to discuss funding for community-based clinics, as you said, checkup is alrea.h.i.n there. and we want to also help the men and women in the military. so this is not a one-issue debate, as it has tried to be framed. and we want to make sure that we dont get to the shutdown, but its obviously in control of the republican majority. >> you were at that meeting yesterday that john kelly, ...

One about the tax bill and he hope that is the senate republicans can get this through. he doesnt own it. you didnt see cohn selling a bill. thats less than his base, the great irony of the salesman and deal maker is he doesnt make and the only deal he has cut is with the democrats. >> what does get done? >> coming up on december 8th, border issues, what does get done between now and the end of the year? >> whats going to happen as you said the big four will meet with trump on tuesday and schume...

And then theyll go at them, seeing whether they can be scaled, climbed, dug under or breached. you will test these walls to their maximum. >> correct. >> on the mexican side of the border, building of the prototype met with disbelief. >> so when you see these, what do they represent to you? >> for our country, we think its -- >> victor clark, a mexican citizen who teaches border issues at san diego state university says a 30 foot wall would deter migrants, but not everything. >> will a 30 foot w...

With disbelief. so when you see these what do they represent to you? >> for our country we think its an insult. >> reporter: mexican citizen who teaches border issues at san diego state university says a 30-foot wall would deter migrants but not everything. >> 30 foot wall 2,000 miles stop drugs? >> drugs enter u.s. through different ways, port of tries to satisfy by land. >> reporter: and tunnels, lots of them. if we could take a picture of the land underneath us, what would it look like? >> a ...

>> a mexican citizen who teaches border issues at san diego state university says a 30 foot wall would deter migrants, but not everything. >> will a 30 foot wall 2,000 miles long stop drugs. >> they enter through different ways, through port of entries, through sea, by land. >> and tunnels, lots of them. >> if we could take a picture of the land, of the ground underneath us, what would it look like? >> well, a lot of tunnels, obviously. probably in this moment somebody is building a tunnel. >> a...

>> shannon: last month, the trump administration announced it was phasing out the aca. president trump says hes willing to sign legislation to protect the so-called dreamers and as a long as the bill includes a whole lot of other things. the president had some productive talks with democrats on the issue but top minority leader nancy pelosi didnt sound too positive on the view today. >> there was never a deal. the agreement was he would support the dream act and we would work with him on some bo...

>> shannon: last month, the trump administration announced it was phasing out the aca. president trump says hes willing to sign legislation to protect the so-called dreamers and as a long as the bill includes a whole lot of other things. the president had some productive talks with democrats on the issue but top minority leader nancy pelosi didnt sound too positive on the view today. >> there was never a deal. the agreement was he would support the dream act and we would work with him on some bo...