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Tantrum. he sort of slammed the table. >> the president walked into the room had passed out candy. i dont recall him ever raising his voice or slamming his hand. >> bret: two different perspectives on the meeting. lets bring in the panel. editor in chief of "of "the washington free beacon"." and "washington post" columnist, mark, going in here, a lot of people said eventually the onus is going to be on the president, pressure building and federal workers not going to get checks. they have yet to...

Specious data and facts. do we expect new data tonight? >> reporter: what we expect from the president tonight is for him to try to control the framing of the national debate about immigration so it is held on his terms as he tries to keep up the pressure on democrats to fund his border wall. the presidents first address will come as the aides worry that the messaging over the past few weeks has failed to resonate. they fear for example that his build the wall slogan has lost its effectiveness b...

Concrete barrier, at the border wall, including a whole list of other things. well pull it out screen. $571 million for additional i.c.e. workers, $563 million for additional immigration judges, 211 for additional border patrol a littles. democrats have made it clear that they want the government to be reopened before they even address any sort of border security issue. nancy pelosi will make her move on that again to pass bills not related to the border wall funding, reaping pa iopening re rela...

Going to happen over the next few days. theyll be having another meeting. i dont expect to have anything happen at that meeting. >> does the president have the authority to do this? >> he absolutely does not have the authority to do it. he probably knows he does not have the authority to do it. and it seems to me to the extent there is a national emergency in the united states of america, its because of the individual sitting at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. so that is just a nonstarter as it relate...

Have the authority to do it. and it seems to me to the extent there is a national emergency in the united states of america, its because of the individual sitting at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. so that is just a nonstarter as it relates to a reasonable proposal. whats happening right now is donald trump is looking for appraisal lifeline in order to get him out of a mess that hes created. by proposing a fifth century solution in terms of this medieval border wall for a 21st century problem. yes, we...

Getting sick and dying. also criminal elements from across the border coming over here and killing folks. a classic example, police officer in california was killed. this is the border security issue. heather: they know the president will not agree to this. remains to be seen what the senate will do, as they allow the president to veto if it gets that far. is that all smoke and mirrors at this point for the democrats? >> i think it is. as far as democrats are concerned they are doing political p...

The country, and many of them in trump country, and as michael steele points out, there is a political dimension for the checkdown for president trump, and the primary one, but the substantive one is that the white house does not have much of the legislative agenda absent from the border security issue in part because the democrats control the house. in many ways, this border wall is the only game in town for donald trump, and now you have government workers who are being in effect held hostage ...

Both of them are up for re-election next year in states that hillary clinton won in 2016. and so the worst year of president trumps life legislatively has begun with at least two defections from the republican ranks in the united states senate. joining our discussion now ron klain and the former chief council for the senate judiciary committee, and also david jolly from florida. and david jolly, i want to start with you because in the house tonight we had a total of seven republican defections. ...

Susan collins. to the congressmans point, there are a number of people who are probably teetering right on that edge of saying, look, lets pass this spending resolution that weve had that theres been support for in the past, separate the border security issue, but really the other issue that the leaders are dealing with is the president and frankly, not wanting to put his members in the conference cross wise with the president. its more than just saying is the president going to veto the bill or...

Security. five of them voted for that temporary funding of the department of homeland security while the border security issue gets argued about. what do you make of that total of seven defections from republicans in the house tonight? >> look, its interesting on day one because nancy pelosi and house democrats did the right thing. and so there are fewer republican moderates in the house as a result of the losses on november 6th. but what we saw there are still republicans who know opening the g...