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>> hoping that president trump will come to the table on this and say lets stop using federal workers lives as a political pawn in this, and lets say all right, we are going to open the government. democrats want a lot, too, on this immigration debate. regardless of the border security piece. >> i feel sorry for the president right now. they said we dont want a concrete wall, we want a metal wall. he said okay, we will do a metal wall with slats. then they said we want technology, more border ag...

Long, the president walked that back, most republicans have walked it back, but democrats are for border security, too, and part of that is physical barriers. kristin: do you wish other democrats would come back and say i would at least support some kind of funding for some barrier at the border. speaker pelosi said flat out, no dollars. >> i think she said we are giving no dollars to the wall. this is a semantics issue. id like to see us all taking a step back and we need to lay the groundwork ...

Dollars, it looks like things could be like this for a while. now, some key things have happened over the past 24 hours. you mentioned some of those federal workers, well, by a vote of 411-7, the house did pass a bill to approve back-pay for those federal workers. it is going to take a while for them to get those checks. those same federal workers that missed their paycheck yesterday. now, about 800,000 of them will receive that back-pay but it leaves the government shutdown in somewhat of a sta...

Other ways to express themselveses. do you think it will catch on here? >> i do. you to have to look at the new congress. governorship across the spectrum. bah t -- the woman who won new mexico district ran on a tough border security piece. but she wanted to deal with daca, the way president trump suggested he was willing to do so the republicans will take their cues from president trump. if he says im willing to do something here, lets bring back that deal. nancy pelosi, now you are the speaker...

Themselveses. do you think it will catch on here? >> i do. you to have to look at the new congress. governorship across the spectrum. bah t -- the woman who won new mexico district ran on a tough border security piece. but she wanted to deal with daca, the way presidentec trump suggested he was willing to do so the republicans will take their cues from president trump. if he says im willing to do something here, lets bring back that deal. nancy pelosi, now you are p the speaker of the house lets...

Republicans control the house. it was republicans who failed to pass the more conservative bill this week. its republicans who could cash your bill next week without a single democratic vote. you could lose 20 republican votes and still pass the bill. for all the presidents talk about democrats, if you fail to pass the bill, isnt that on republicans? >> the fact is every democrat voted against the bill, a rational daca fix. theyve been talking about daca for a year now we had a bill on the floor...

Republicans control the house. it was republicans who failed to pass the more conservative bill this week. its republicans who could cash your bill next week without a single democratic vote. you could lose 20 republican votes and still pass the bill. for all the presidents talk about democrats, if you fail to pass the bill, isnt that on republicans? >> the fact is every democrat voted against the bill, a rational daca fix. theyve been talking about daca for a year now we had a bill on the floor...

Having is most votes will go to say the democratic dream act. barack obama went around to everybody and unilaterally decided that the children of illegal immigrants that are here in the united states, union lat -- unilaterally he decided they could stay here. youll wind up without border security but with making daca codified into law. >> certainly, its disappointing to hear this type of rhetoric when the god -- goodlatte bill is an extension of what president obama did. i was against that execu...

Probably -- or we absolutely will have to have a border security piece to that legislation, but there are many different people working on this all over the hill, and i am optimist take our group of 25 bipartisan senators have shown the way forward if youre willing to work hard and listen to one another. >> i know that an x factor is the president, and we have reported on how the position seems to shift around, and i know mcconnell was uncertain as of a few days ago where the president stands, b...

On capitol hill expects the border security piece to be some sort of compromise thats not going to be, you know, a 2,000 mile wall. no one is really talking about a 2,000 mile wall at this point the white house and dhs is never talking about it. it was a wall of semantics to be perfectly honest. it was always symbolic during the campaign. and i think the reason the president continues to return to it over and over it was so symbolic to his base. the wall includes other things like just more inte...