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Republican. what do republican leaders need to do with steve king? >> first things first, they are have a conversation with him tomorrow. i expect something may be taking away his committee assignments. as you said before, this isnt a one-time thing. these disgusting and racist remarks happen every few months. i had to deal with it. >> you guys put out a statement. >> disavowing him, yeah. we said we werent going to support him in the general election late in the 2018 campaign. if i was there --...

Sque of how do you g question, how do you get out of this? if the president opens the government back up without border security money, the right wing will go nuts. at the same point in times, if democrats in congress, if pelosi puts a bill on the floor and theyre forced to vote for funding, their base is going to go nuts. so as a consequence of each being driven by each partys base. republicans are right, look, democrats have voted for border security in the past but the past is the past. look,...

Our constitutional responsibilities and our duties to the president of the united states. that just makes people accomplices in this shutdown. >> all right, senator chris van hollen, thank you very much for your time on a sunday night, sir. >> thank you. >> im sure ill see you on the hill in a very busy week soon. thank you. >> frank, last word to you because some people have posited that the -- this shutdown and the presidents intransigence perhaps may be related to trying to distract from this...

Bbc world news, katty kay. shes co-author of the book "the confidence code for girls." also with us justice reporter julia ainsley and former chief of staff at the cia and department of defense, also msnbc national security analyst, jeremy bash. and in birmingham, alabama, former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor joyce vance. its great to have you to talk about a very momentous weekend in news. jeremy, i want to start with you and just from kind of a broad perspective, did this headline and ne...

I dont believe that but i think he believes that. i dont see either party moving off here so i think the only exit strategy to get the government back open is for him to do an emergency declaration. >> thats something though that many republicans in congress have said is a no-go. take a look, heres what mitt romney, what of many republicans carrying this message, said this week. >> how is the president handling this? nancy pelosi has accused him of acting like a petulant child in the negotiation...

Improvement is pretty hard to fail to accomplish this time. >> when you look at one of the biggest issues about this, it is the border wall. this battle of what president trump wants to do on the border. you saw in those ads we played. debbie supports the wall. lets look at some exchange. >> its very disappointing and didnt fit our district that hero is opposed to the wall. shed be a better fit temporary tucson or san francisco or something like that. >> please respond to the border wall questio...

>> president trump tweeted a few minutes ago, quote -- >> its nice to see you having a dialogue with the president all morning. >> no. in fairness this came minutes before my comment. few if any administrations have done more in seven months than the trump administration. regulations killed, border, military, isis, supreme court. thats from the president. theres the tweet there. phil, how does this -- >> phil r. >> yes. phil, how does this border wall question did resolved? because it is a prior...

Possible government shutdown is, how is congress going to handle now we have boom, tossed the wall in the mix when so many even republicans, especially those in states bordering mexico do not support this wall. there are so many things they could have focused on. why this? how is congress going to handle it? >> reporter: the signal was capitol hill is that they were working together, republicans and democrats had gone through this process, gotten to the point where they could actually write new ...