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Directed to? >> for you, jennifer, governor. >> okay, great. call me jennifer, its good. i really think that movement on both sides is really good thing for those 800,000 employees, right? so democrats had -- remember that the president originally had asked for $1.6 billion in his budget request. the democrats offered to give him that. in this homeland security budget, theyve offered $1.3 billion for border security and now theyre going to add another $1 billion on top of that for other border s...

The president in a good mood, passing out the candy. telling the lawmakers they had a copy of the latest budget request from the white house in front of them which laid out their immigration priorities, this, that they cobbled together over the weekend during negotiations with democrats, but things went downhill from there as the president and nancy pelosi were going back and forth most of the time. it wasnt all chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and the president. the it was mostly just the preside...

Right now, where the president stands from kaitlyn collins at the white house. so what else are we learning about what happened in this meeting because theres different points of view on it clearly here. >> there are. we know for sure that meeting was short. only about 14 or 15 minutes we are told by sources. it started out kind of on a lighter note. the president in a good mood passing out the candy. telling the lawmakers they had a copy of the latest budget request from the white house in fron...

Fast. were talking to people who were in the room. they said the president was in a pretty good mood when he walked into the situation room, passing out candy to those involved. thats when the officials told them that they had a letter at each of their seats, this letter im holding. its the latest budget request from the office of management and budget. that was essentially laying out the administrations latest up to date priorities on what they want before they end this government shutdown. tha...

People through. thats what the president should be talking about. >> thats part of his request for additional tools and additional beds and judges, and each time democrats refused to provide the funding. >> marc, i feel you are also being misinformed. >> alisyn -- >> he doesnt mention these things and talk about it. he has the biggest bully pulpit in the world. >> you just asked me, im trying to explain to you. the democrats refused to fund it in the last years. >> there were bipartisan offers t...

Pointed out rightly. the border patrol union is not an official spokesperson for the entire union and for all the members of customs and border protection and the border control. you have a senate confirmed commissioner who could have been there to answer questions, that was not what the white house intended. but i would say in is certainly some evidence that barriers work, they have worked in some sectors. but a couple key points, if the president felt it was necessary to have $5 billion for a ...

Protection and the border control. you have a senate confirmed commissioner who could have been there to answer questions, that was not what the white house intended. but i would say in is certainly some evidence that barriers work, they have worked in some sectors. but a couple key points, if the president felt it was necessary to have $5 billion for a border wall, he should have put that in his budget request. the presidents own budget request asked for $1.6 billion for 65 miles of border wall...

Said his resignation letter is extremely troubling. you also said we should all be worried now. and now that now is upon us january 1st, what should we be worried about? >> manus agreed to stay on until february and he was going to represent the united states at a conference, hope the president deliver his budget request in the setup for the defense authorization act that now the president fired him. leland: doesnt the president have the right to say i want somebody whos not a lame duck and not ...

And the dirty little secret is that the republicans want to gang up on the president with the democrats on appropriations. they want to get the things they want. the president caused this problem for himself. they gave him his budget request of $1.6 billion basically in the bills and for political reasons, he wants to say i got $5 billion. we really dont have to give you this. plus on top of that, how many times about nancy pelosi say trump shut down in that stake out? you have given us this gif...

Defense budget to congress. trump asking for an additional $34 billion, a revised budget request coming as a surprise to dod. jennifer griffin has more. >> dana, just last week the president said his top line was $700 billion for the 2020 defense budget. now he says he wants $750 billion. this turn around after he had lunch with jim mattis last week. weeks earlier, the president has demanded a 5% cut from all government agencies. most political insiders see the $750 billion figure as a negotiati...