Border Security Separately News Today

Pressure, right? jim acosta at the white house, thank you. i want to bring in gloria borger and dana bash to talk about this. what a day. what a news day, right? if there appears to be some sort of agreement, walk us through what that could be, dana, because we knew there was this bipartisan group of senators that was aiming for something that weve heard about before, which is -- this has been on the table or discussed or out there -- a stopgap measure that funds the government for a short perio...

We are in a shutdown situation. i think at the end of the day a compromise position can take care of the border and take care of the shutdown and now is the time to seize that opportunity. >> why not separate it and re-open the government so people who cant afford to donate their salaries, their paychecks to charity can put food on the table for their families and then deal with the issue of border security separately? >> because youre never going to fix the problem of border security and youre ...

Heres whats politically significant about it, andrea. it was likely aimed at those very republicans that you were just talking about on capitol hill who were starting to crack, who were saying, look, we need to start negotiating here. lets deal with border security separately. we need to get the government re-opened. the political pressure, andrea, is only going to mount on friday. that will be when some 800,000 federal employees dont get a paycheck and thats when the political pressure is going...