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President out of the talks? >> reporter: no. on the contrary, they plan to keep him in the loop, at least the republicans do, to make sure whatever ideas they are kicking around could earn his signature at some point. >> harris: do you want the president to stay out of this, as senator chuck shumer said? >> no. the president has to be part of it. we have to get to a bill that hell sign. he has to be part of the discussion, the negotiation. >> reporter: this big meeting, the start of the border w...

Democrats to compromise. >> i watched speaker pelosi sit there and would not negotiate with anything. so i give president trump a lot of credit. he put the american people before politics. what people are celebrating, saying speaker pelosi is strong because she got status quo? thats not what the country wants. country wants to find common ground. >> dana: peter doocy is live on capitol hill. do democrats sound any more likely to consider border wall money by february 15th, the new deadline? >> r...

You see parts of state, parts of transportation, the epa, agriculture, interior, hud, health and human services. why not fund those departments and continue to fight on the wall? >> because what the congress is doing is holding these departments hostage. theyre putting those bills attached to that border wall bill -- >> yes, the republican senate is doing that. the house passed a bill to fund them through september 30th. >> the fact of the matter is this is a national security issue that congres...

Outside of mcconnells office in nancy pelosi is on an island in the pacific. >> house democrats are in a bit of a bind, and they wont be putting any offer on the table until she was elected speaker. >> part of pelosis leadership team is forecasting what she might want. hakeem jeffries tweeted day seven of the trumps shut down. they refused to pay a $5 billion ransom note, and the $5 billion in border wall funding is stuck in the senate where allies and lindsey graham wrote today, to nancy pelosi...

Resolve this situation and this is another sign of washingtons dysfunctionality. >> mack, youre right. that is a promise thats already been broken. mexico is not paying for the wall. the government is now shut down because the president wants to make sure that congress puts taxpayers on the hook for that border wall bill. >> i think thats exactly right and i think robert may have outlined a potential end game. at some point -- of course, weve had the holidays here, and that softens a bit or chan...

Senior capitol hill producer chad phil gramm with us. we have play-by-play. first, to peter doocy on capitol hill. what appears to be the empty halls of power, except for our peter doocy. hey, your company there, peter. >> well, shannon, as you know, normally an hour before something huge on capitol hill like a vote or a government shutdown, a hole we like one, underneath where lawmakers with offices in the russell building have to go so they can get to the floor, there is nobody here! there are...

Squeeze major concessions out of the republican majority. >> his wall does not have 60 votes here in the senate. let alone 50 votes. that much is clear. >> there were 47 votes in favor. 47 votes against. advancing to the border wall bill. so vice president pence had a break a tie. he has been here for hours with jared kushner and the incoming chief of staff mick mulvaney meeting behind closed doors with leaders including schumer. some lawmakers told us there some discussion about agreeing to les...