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We start off with john roberts. the presidents southern swing to the fences. good evening. >> day 20 of the partial government shutdown a president trump, he is even more duggan than ever in his demands for some money to build some kind of a barrier along our southern border. he took his argument to the front line in the fight to control illegal cross-border traffic. >> just a few yards from the rio grande within sight of mexico, president trump repeated his threat that he is willing to declare ...

Resolution. she is much too intelligent and talented and has been in too many negotiations to be behaving the way that she has. >> they say it president trump personally killed an effort by lindsey graham to craft a grand bargain. >> ive never been more depressed about moving forward then right now. i dont see a pathway forward. >> she says it is about to get real when constituents was a paycheck tomorrow. >> speak with prison guards, we have people i am very concerned about. let the people livi...

National emergency. the lawyers have advised me. im not prepared to do that yet. if i have to, i will! >> before his tour of president trump took in a briefing from the border patrol at the mcallen station. in the room, drugs, money and drugs seized from criminals. joining the group, the brother of the california police officer who was gunned down the day after christmas by an illegal immigrant. >> looking at that 5-month-old baby, looking for his dad. no one should ever go through that on chris...

Addressing. aiming to put pressure on democrats to come to the table and negotiate. >> democrats have refused to listen to the border agents. they say this is a manufactured crisis, what is manufactured is the use of the word manufactured. it is manufactured by them. >> nancy pelosi and says president trump is being petulant and his approach to border security and they shut down. pointing to his walk out yesterdays situation room meeting. balderdash said president trump today. >> i didnt raise m...

They democrats are facing calls of hypocrisy for opposing and wall that they supported in the past. democrats say things have changed, times have changed. peter doocy looks at both sides from capitol hill. >> two years before being elected president, a politician still stick shaping his platfo. it was barack obama. >> the bill before us will do some good, it will authorize some badly needing funding for better fences and better security along our borders. >> the next standard-bearer of the democ...

Tonight. >> bret: are the democrats wavering at all question meticulous in. >> we had a president who said he would be proud to shut down the government. [boos] >> today we got 67 calls for building the wall. we got five against, it sounds to me like he is still pretty popular. i dont think the wall is going to solve all of our problems. it doesnt hurt anything. spewing there is a part of the democratic party that clearly is pro-border security and they are getting those calls. >> is a huge misc...

Check for 20 billion or 5 billion? no. they are paying for the wall and a great trade deal. >> during the time of the campaign there was no usmca, all those campaign rallies and president trump never said that mexico would pay through enhanced revenue from a new trade deal. the president did point out a potential looming problem building south of the border saying the two new caravans have formed in honduras. one of them reported to be a strength of 15,000 people. the biggest caravan so far. >> ...

Pretty popular. >> senator graham is out with a statement encouraging the president to use his emergency powers to fund the wall with legal repercussions, he hopes it works. moments ago, the senate by voice approved back pay for furloughed workers. >> bret: mike emanuel, thank you. breaking late this afternoon the presidents former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen will testify in public before the house oversight committee. that is not on by democrats. catherine herridge is here with details. >> ...

Collar worker. most of them want this border protected. people get too caught up in the wall, the wall is code for, protect the border. when they see it like that, most people will agree with donald trump on this. im telling you in 2020 this is going to be -- it will really help the president. >> bret: unless you are a blue-collar federal worker. >> not many of them for donald trump. maybe in the military area. trump has had this explicitly. [laughs] he said it privately. he sees the federal wor...

Immoral, but it is far more immoral for people to be dying. hugo, starts with the plan from the democrats to basically handle all of the other funding except for the homeland security border security funding. kicking that into february. will that go? because you still have the senate, the republicans controlling the senate? >> i think that this is the latest gambit. we have been in this argument enough nearly two weeks. it is more than a week since the president with mick mulvaney, ready to comp...