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Assert themselves. Well, and here we are. Guys, i dont even know where to begin. That is all we have for mtp daily tonight. In the midst of the Breaking News, the house is voting right now on the key vote that will apparently tell us more about whether there is a shut down coming and we have this National Security imploegsion. And our Breaking News continues with ari melber. I dont know if i dont know if Breaking News is enough to describe everything that is happening right now, but the Trump Wh...

And south korea. the projects they had under way have come to a standstill. north korea squarely blames the u.s. for this impasse. the north has been wanting at least partial sanctions relief for taking steps towards denuclearization while the trump administration wants all or nothing. president trump has tension with iran. north korea could be using this period as leverage in order to gain concessions knowing president trump considers north korea his foreign policy win. stephanie? >> all right,...

She opened her announcement rally with "9:00 to 5:00" by dolly parton, putting forth that signal she can be the candidate to navigate the class warfare thats really dominated, you know, political rhetoric in the past few years. so i do think somebody like senator sanders has a lot to worry about as hes still mulling his decision. its quite possible that by the time he gets in, voters who are looking for a candidate that way might just feel like its déjà vu listening to him speak when senator w...

And say $800 million more the wall. some absurdly low number. he cannot in good faith sign that. >> reporter: if talks ultimately go nowhere, an aide has said house democrats are prepared to fund a bill to keep dhs open through september. its unclear, theres no indication senate republicans would take that up and put it on the presidents desk. >> all right. boris sanchez at the white house. thank you. joining us now is democratic congressman john garamendi, member of the house armed services com...

Like the china wall? >> we, as a sovereign nation, have a right to put up a wall and say who can and cannot come into this country. >> we understand that. we dont dispute that whatsoever. >> im not against mexicans. my wife is mexican, okay. dont come off with -- that we dont want people from mexico, that im afraid of mexicans. no, mexicans are going to stay in their houses. theyre going to live their lives. but there are criminal elements that are going to come over. >> trump says we need to bu...

But politically, if they passed a bill that had increased border security with daca, what is wrong with that? then trump can say, hey, i put up the wall, i met my promise, right? and we get daca. we get something we want. why not compromise? >> were not bargaining chips. us dreamers, were a separate issue. >> but you are. >> but we shouldnt be. we shouldnt be in that position. if he feels he wants to use us as bargaining chips, what hes doing is scapegoating. >> hes using you as a bargaining tri...

Telling "the washington post" this. some people have used code words. some have come at it obliquely. he just, completely divorced from the truth or fact or our reality or our experience here in el paso, uses this so incite fear and paranoia and turn that to political gain. weve been to the border. weve been in el paso. about a year ago i sat down with a group of el paso residents who have different perspectives on immigration. i want to remind you of our conversation because a year later, not m...

Theres not a politician here in washington that can withstand another 35-day shutdown or even a one-day shutdown. >> when it comes to the wall specifically, president trumps acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, says if theres a deal but it doesnt have the full $5.7 billion that trump is asking for, hell get it without congress. listen. >> you cannot take a shutdown off the table, and you cannot take 5.7 off the table. if you end up some place in the middle, then what you probably see is the pre...

Ambassador to the u.n. pushing trump to take far right positions and keeping the border wall front and center. >> massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the american people. >> reporter: on trumps best days, his tv echo chamber cheers. and on his worst days, they sometimes just close their eyes or look in the opposite direction. just last week when james mattis resigned in protest, carlson led his show with a border wall monologue instead, mocking democrats. >> only dumb people belie...

Phrase it is like lighting a match and throwing it on some gasoline here. this a day at a 24 hours or 48 hours in a week in which weve seen developments on syria, weve seen developments as it relates to the potential for a government shutdown. president trump -- think about his mindset here. yesterday there were signals coming that maybe he would break this promise to his base on this border wall, pick up the fight again in the spring and sign the short-term fix if the senate and the house passe...