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Shutdown. theres been no evidence of that so far. significantly, the president is going up to capitol hill to meet with senate republicans and many of them are nervous who have an exit strategy. in the middle of that he says lets do a big immigration bill. lets do a big immigration bill. the president walked away from a deal last year that was big, not huge, but big, where he could have legalized the dreamers, so-called daca recipients and gotten the money for his wall. the government is now shu...

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President, change course? >> ink it think its rumblings spoke to lisa murkowski and she said she was going to bring this up not that she would get into a policy back and forth, but its the issue of people are already coming into their offices and people are being affected by this shutdown and this is the wrong way to go, and we need to reopen while we continue to resolve the differences and those calls will start to grow. what will be interesting to see is in the past when there have been differ...

The first time in weeks. >> abby philip at the white house, keep us posted. well get tape of the meeting as soon as we can. we go up to capitol hill. challenge number one is to keep the republicans in line. i dont want to overstate this, but a number of republicans have started to voice a bit of the jitters. the fear among republicans is when that friday comes and people dont get paychecks that the phones start ringing and the federal workers start saying enough, even if i support the wall i wan...

Firm on this and hoping the democrats change their mind, but the politics of the democrats changing their mind is really not in his favor at the moment. at the same time, though, i think what you did hear is the president taking a step back from this national emergency conversation trying to say that the first priority is actually to work with lawmakers, to try to come to a resolution. how much time he gets for that process to play out given how this shutdown continues to play out and drag on fo...

A national emergency to bypass congress to build the wall. from the sounds of it, the president seems to be indicating that he would prefer to negotiate. he would prefer to resolve this with democrats and republicans in a room because everybody knows that if he declares a national emergency it basically takes negotiating with congress off the table. so well see more about where this all ends up and whether as you mentioned in this meeting with senate republicans in a couple of hours, the preside...

Things, but i was told earlier in the week that he likes mick mulvaney just fine and doesnt want to hear the long presentations on the numbers. hes watching external advisers, i think. >> the president has said this on his own that he thinks his gut and instinct is smarter than what his advisers tell him. i think inside the white house if he sees people he actually trusts. he has been talking to mark meadows about this on capitol hill and he talked to mark gates who had lunch with him throughout...

Deal. republicans are going to matt thornberry the house arms services committee, republican, saying he is not in favor of spending pentagon money. he is going to need a win and something he can declare victory on. things are so broken and thats what jared kushner is doing. what can we do to make it look like a win? things are so frayed because of the first two years of his presidency it makes this all the harder. what would be a win at this point? i guess the other question i have is if the pre...

Working together. theyre not at the moment, but i wonder if thats a hint from the president about what he wants and then he did also say otherwise well have to go in a different manner. i hope we dont have to do that. that different manner would be a national emergency declaration where he would use pentagon funding to try to build a wall. >> reporter: yeah, john, it was a bit of a subdued tone going into these meetings and perhaps a good thing because sometimes going in blazing into these meeti...

Here between congressional leaders and the president. these are -- this is just the beginning of the congress tomorrow with speaker pelosi, theres going to have to be a lot of trust, to get anything done, whether its our infrastructure or possible deal down the road. possibly, this has been on the table before, you can have the wall for the dreamers, that was a deal that pelosi and schumer accepted and changed his mind on. i think theres a lack of urgency, and a lack of desperation that weve see...