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Chris: now this gets complicated, you raised a new issue here, schumer staff said in response to that that youre not telling the truth. they say -- they say that he offered not one years funding which was what was suggested yesterday but full funding, 18 to $20 billion in year one that they were going -- they were going to put that on the table. not offer, i should say that they were willing to discuss that and that you guys walked away from that. i mean, if you got full funding for the wall, th...

Senat senato senators led by senators graham and senator durbin, he blew it up in a volcanic meeting at the white house. the same script played out with myself and the president yesterday. the president called me in the morning, asked that i come to the white house and of course i accepted. we had an extensive negotiation about every single outstanding issue. we came close to a tentative agreement on the budget. after i offered the pentagons full budget request. on the thorniest issue of immigra...

We went to meeting and had a long and productive discussion. i told the president we -- democrats were willing to fund the military at the highest levels in history. far above even his budget request. i reluctantly put his wall request for the southern border on the table. it was his request. we left the meeting having agreed to try for a short term cr that would keep everyone at the negotiating table for a few more days. the president suggested lets do it by tuesday night. we said great. severa...

Trump anyway. this will help trump get people in the middle again. leland: it does bring up an important point as we hear from so many of these folks about the issue of immigration. were going to take one moment here, somebodys talking about immigration as well. chuck schumer on the floor of the senator. >> in rejecting the house continuing resolution, which hurts our military, does nothing for urgent domestic priorities bieb opioids, pensions, nothing on disaster relief and nothing on the immig...

The military at the highest levels in history, far above even his budget request. i reluctantly put his wall ask for the southern border on the table. it was his request. we left the meeting having agreed to try for a short-term cr that would keep everyone at the negotiating table for a few more days. the president suggested, lets do it by tuesday night, we said, great. several hours later he called back, he said, so i hear we have a three-week deal, i said, no, mr. president, no one has talked ...

And in a volcanic meeting at the white house, the same script played out with myself and the president yesterday. the president called me in the morning and asked that i come to the white house. and of course i accepted. we had an extensive and serious negotiation about every single outstanding issue. we came close to a tentative agreement on the budget, after i offered the pentagons full budget request. on the thorniest issue of immigration, the president said many times he would take a deal th...

Long and productive discussion. i told the president we democrats were willing to fund the military at the highest levels in history. far above even his budget request. i reluctantly put his wall request for the southern bothered on the tab border on the table. it was his request. we left the meeting, having agreed to try for a short term cr that would keep everyone at the negotiating table for a few more days. the president suggested, lets do it by tuesday night. we said, great. several hours l...

Liability company to pay stormy daniels. >> the people familiar with the matter says cohen denies the report. the president denies any encounter with stormy daniels. highly unusual budget request from the nations consumer watch dog. it wants zero dollars. the trump administration not asking the federal reserve for one cent for the consumer financial protection bureau next quarter. former chief and obama appointee asked for $87 million for the prior quarter. interim director mick mulvaney says ...

Hopefully with an agreement, this group and others from the senate, from the house comes back with an agreement, im signing it. i mean, i will be signing it. im not going to say gee, i want this or that. ill be signing it. >> that seemed clear. but after totally rejecting that deal, the deal they came back with and throwing in some world shocking racist ininvestigatetive for good measure, senate democrats are plowing forward without the president today introducing the bipartisan bill that the pr...

Plowing forward without the president today introducing the bipartisan bill that the president himself rejected. >> this agreement gives president trump every single penny that he asked for. for border security in his budget request. almost $1.6 billion for construction on the border. of barriers and all sorts of fences and whatever else is needed even walls. this was not easy. we came to this agreement and we sent it over and had it drafted. it will be introduced this afternoon. the original th...