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March when aides fought tooth-and-nail to get trump to sign a spending billing he thought didnt include enough money for the wall. >> i say to congress i will never sign another bill like this again. >> reporter: amid questions about whether the president will keep one campaign promise, another causing bipartisan backlash. after trump abruptly announced hell withdraw u.s. troops from syria. >> this is just a disaster in the making. >> reporter: even the host of the presidents favorite morning sh...

Dollars. why are we fighting for our enemy syria by staying and killing aisis for them, russia, iran and other locals? yesterday the president said isis had been defeated in syria. now hes saying why should we stay there and fight isis in syria? >> something of a contradiction, kaitlan collins, thanks so much. appreciate it. want to turn to cnns ryan nobles on capitol hill for us. ryan, what does the house do now? >> reporter: well, jake, they just released in the last hour this new language in ...

Jake, minutes later you dont have to call the wall a wall. can you say they are steel slats in order to give the democrats a way out to fund. it not a lot of clarity here, but there is one thing that does seem to be sure, and thats that washington could be headed for a christmas shutdown. washington on the brink of a government shutdown today after president trump told house republicans he wont sign a short-term spending bill to keep the government open that doesnt include money for his border w...

Told, quote, the president will sign that legislation but today the president himself told outgoing house speaker paul ryan he will not stein it. why? though speaker ryan did not use the word wall white house press secretary sarah sanders suggested the president would not sign the government spending bill because we urgently need funding for border security which includes a wall. president trump has been on the receiving end of relentless criticism from conservative allies in the congress and me...

Promise from the 2016 campaign? no way! >> reporter: sources telling cnn the president was fuming over the criticism lashing out at aides and telling them to fix this. even unfollowing ann coulter on twitter after she said she wouldnt vote for him in 2020 without a wall. >> it will just have been a joke presidency that scammed the american people. >> reporter: the administration also appeasing far right critics by announcing that asylum seekers will be sent back to mexico to sit and wait for the...

February 8th when nancy pelosi is speaker -- im supposed to believe that we are then going to build the border security wall and keep our promise in the 2016 campaign? no way. >> mr. president we will back you up if you veto this bill, we will be there and more importantly the american people will be there, they will be there to support you. >> joining us now is the republican congressman from texas, william herd. thank you for being here. >> always a pleasure to be on. >> what do you think of w...

Then he put in all caps, usa wins. the president had signaled he was prepared to sign this clean cr to keep the government open through the new year. in fact, he sent vice president mike pence up here to capitol hill yesterday to tell senate republicans that he would sign that legislation. but then some conservatives on the house side started warning the president that that was a bad idea. take a listen to what some of them had to say yesterday. >> youve got to be kidding me. really? i mean, feb...

Then he can kind of say maybe democrats, they just wouldnt give it to me, but hes still going have to deal with the fact why dont you have a wall after two years of republicans controlling the house, the senate and you in the white house? >> so, you know, this reminds me of obama with closing gitmo. he wanted to do it. he truly wanted to do it. he made a promise, and then he couldnt do it because congress wouldnt let him. >> i dont disagree. thats a spot-on analysis. the president wants to do it...

Might still serve jail time and theres nothing biased about that. we need to stop bringing down our legitimate institutions like the judiciary. >> laura: do you think judges are beyond criticism? we shouldnt criticize a judge? i see what we are seeing as a subversion of the american peoples will. >> its not the judges who are activists. its activists going to the judges because as you point out, congress hasnt done its job. >> laura: jim jordan, its true congress hasnt done its job on this parti...

Released a five part mini-series on his life in congress. did you see that? god bless him. hes a nice person.es it was embarrassing. it was an embarrassing thing he did. >> fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me. for the american people four times, shame on congress. thats what weve done. four times we promised them we would build the wall and put it on the spending bill and now were saying no. pelosi is going to be speaker, it will never happen. >> laura: the republicans also ca...