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Convinced not so much a wall, sir, lets go for a different kind of electionan troic surveillance, different kinds of security, border security overall. is it the president? or is it his base that needs to be convinced that this would be a good thing? or is it the presidents job to convince his base? >> it is the presidents job to lead. leadership choirs clear communication which requires you to have a vision of where you want to go and to bring the country. he had a message during the campaign. ...

Election thats upcoming. number two, nancy pelosi has her speaking vote coming up in january. she is under pressure from the left not to accept certainly any wall. i dont see any compromise coming any time soon. i think this actually goes into the new year. >> okay. so heres a good question for you, abigail, if congress comes up with a magic number how can republicans actually count on the presidents wouldrd? look what he did this week, a complete about-face. >> i think you hit the nail on the h...

We combat that. the wall is not going to help with any of that. >> lets go to the senate floor and listen to senator chuck schumer. >> taxpayer to pony up for an expensive and ineffective border wall in a the president promised mexico would pay for it make no mistake, the trump shutdown is not about bore kerr security. all of the proposals we have made continue over $1 billion in new border security money, the same amount allocated last year by both parties and even the president agreed to. and ...

Bill. but president trump, beholden to the far, far right, unwilling to shoulder even the slightest critique from rush limbaugh or laura ingraham didnt sign on to the bill signed napoli by all parties in this chamber and he sent his allies off to tilt at wind mills. everyone knew yesterday long before the house vote that the presidents wall lacked 60 votes in the senate. it has proven to, la even 50 votes. it will never pass the senate. not today. not next week. not next year. so, mr. president,...

Security. doesnt specify a wall. do you think security will play the same with this base? >> if ann coulter and rush limbaugh are any indication no. they are saying you need to build this wall. it is what you promised, what you have said all along. even though experts always said it would make no sense to build a wall, it was much better enforced through a variety of different measures. thats the compromise democrats and republicans are talking about, redirecting the money to go into other borde...

Points is what does the president want? i think that is determined you know, these negotiations will kind of be flawed and frustrating. >> do you think abigail it is because he is trying to thread the needle? this president is getting a lot of heat from all sorts of very vocal voices. you have rush limbaugh, ann coulter calling him names actually. ann coulter said he was a wimp if he doesnt get this wall and backs down on it? is that the point? he realizes the reality of whats going on here in c...

Trying to please the base at a time when he is drawing a lot of criticism. sort of almost seeing that as a sort of safe way out of some of these difficult situations and a way to garner praise at a time when he is being criticized pretty hashly. >> he want to pick up up on that with you, jay. look at the promotion of what he is calling a steel slat barrier. what are your thoughts? this is a way of finessing his way out of the border wall language? it is 20 feet high, a concrete barrier that you ...

So if you want to solve illegal immigration, you have all of those things. look, remember, where we started. donald trump wanted 25 -- first mexico was going the pay for the wall. zerlina is right. what schumer could actually say is look we wont support any bill that doesnt support mexican funding for the wall. that legitimately is the presidents position is mexico will pay for the wall. then he wanted $25 billion. in other words, mexico wasnt going to pay for it, taxpayers were. then schumer wa...

Massive crisis down at the border. crime rates are down violent crime rates are down from last year, property crime rates are down. and everything study shows that immigrants, documented and unumt doed commit less crimes than native born americans. >> if what you are saying is true is what is happening in washington right now all about politics and personality. >> it is about donald trumps ego mostly. he wants his vanity wall. u.s. taxpayers should not be spending money on any official wasteful ...

Matters. he moved from wall to fence to spleeked slatted fence. we are already putting more resores to border than federal law enforcement together. we c i dont think we are for wasting unin, whatever the name is applied. >> congressman doingette, do you have a prediction how soon this shutdown will end? is there a scenario where both sides win politically, where the american people win by having border security along the southern border and elsewhere this this country. >> i think we have a sign...