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Additional barriers could be useful. >> uh, meanwhile, i see that mitch mcconnell made sure that the people that got appointed to the committee are people that make deals, not people that represent some extreme. do i smell a deal coming? >> it could be. to some degree this isnt that surprising, consider there are democrats that have been working on border security issues for a while. they didnt want a 5.7 billion wall with a big, beautiful door and all the things that the president said were par...

Who said were not going to do something that makes sense while you hold the workers hostage. how so many of them kept doing their job. with the fbi, the prisons, at the airport without pay. >> youre on my show the night the government shut down and everyone is saying he caved. but he did exactly what democrats were offering back then and my question is 35 days for what? >> thank you for realizing that. literally it was 37 days ago we voted to stop the shutdown and then the shutdown started two d...

Tonight the president, everyone is saying he caved but he did exactly what democrats were offering back then. and my question is, 35 days for what? >> thank you so much for realizing that. i think that was forgotten in this 35 days. literally it was 37 days ago we voted for that to stop the shutdown. and then the shutdown started two days later. that bill is nearly identical to what this bill is. that was it. it was a temporary bill so that the border security issues could be much more thoughtfu...

Chuck schumer, democratic leader, went to meet with the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. he walked out of his office and back over to the democratic leaders office. all he would say, "we are talking. we are talking. we are talking." the wheels are starting to move simply because there is desperation. you had two procedural votes earlier today. neither got close to 60 which is what you need. in fact, i should point out that the democratic plan got more republican defections. more people ov...

Whichever candidate the military in venezuela will back. >> bill: well watch that. what about the state of the union? you heard the news from overnight last night. it will not happen on tuesday. you okay with that? >> i think its a national disgrace. i think its an embarrassment and unprecedented. if anybody is throwing a temper tantrum its nancy pelosi. its a sad day for america. the american people and congress want to hear from the president. she -- they want him to bring the nation together ...

800,000 public servants who have been working without pay. >> the american people and the congress want to hear from the president and bring the nation together. at this critical time when the government is shut down and were looking at border security issues. >> we have many employees suffering because of this shutdown the president has engaged in and the speaker and the house democrats are committed to reopening the government. we have now voted 10 times to reopen the government. that is our p...

That effectively. the wall in a desert does not do that. those are the type of border security issues that are so critical to american families and american security ask to hold us hostage to this idea of one project of this president creating security -- >> he would say its a bit more than a pet project. however, you want to label this wall, the left and the right, so totally disagree. what we can all agree is the hundreds of thousands of people that the real world impacts, well put the scroll ...

Doing your normal government work or while youre prevented from doing your normal government work. we need to get this over with. people need to get back to work. frankly, i think the president, who is not famously flexible, has been much more flexible in terms of moving to a different place than the democrats have. hes essentially moved from where he was during the campaign on border security issues to where hes pretty much in line with the last four presidents. wants to do essentially what the...

Because the president has mentioned wanting those things in addition to the wall? >> the answer is not much. p when you consider how much money was allocated last year that went unspent in a lot of border security issues, including some for the wall. i think at this point the question that the president is facing is whether or not he can convince everybody that hes actually more determined to get the government up and running and get out of this. he has really painted himself into a corner. and ...

Horrible stories about their personal lives, about whats happening with employment. i would urge the president to meet with federal workers and government workers and understand the magnitude of this problem. government needs to be open. the president needs to allow the government to be open and let us then negotiate as we should on border security issues. you cant do that while the president has us held hostage by the tactics hes using and he keeps on undermining his own negotiators. we need to...