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More than half of voters are in support of building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a new poll found. The new Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday found that 52 percent of voters are in support of building the wall along the border. This poll comes just weeks after the Biden administration announced it would waive 26 federal…

And who were very naive about how things would play out politically. >> what about the politics of the shutdown, jeff? we know it hurt the president. i was read oefg the weekend that mark meadows says that building a wall is really key to trumps base looking ahead to 2020. obviously the mueller investigation. that could have a real impact on trying to get through the primariment and now some republicans are courting others to challenge him. how likely is that that he faces a primary challenge sn...

And racism has gone largely ignored by his colleagues in congress. but this time there seemsed to be a lot of hang ringing. from south carolina senator, tim scott, the one black republican member of the senate caucus. he wrote an op-ed saying quote some in our party wonder why republicans are constantly accused of racism. its because of our silence when things like this are said. and remember the republican party shut down of the government is over steve kings signature policy idea, building a w...

Its okay with me. they can name it whatever they can name it peaches. i dont care what they name it. >> so republicans are now so trapped by how manifestly dumb this whole thing is that theyre begging donald trump to do something even dumber. today that very same lindsey graham tweeting again quote mr. president, declare a national emergency now. build a wall now. weve entered a frankly pathetic phrase in which theyre clammering to give away their power in congress because they cannot admit the ...

Rr saying im a veteran, i fought for this country and for you to tell me if american citizens that youre not going to pay me, im very upset. >> all of that is crecanating increased political pressure on a republican party desperate to end the shutdown and too cowardly to cross the president on this signature idea that, by the way, they all know is dumb. you know they think its dumb because from the moment he announced he would build a wall, this is what they said. >> the tragedy of this though i...

This is what lindsey graham had to say today. >> the national emergency idea is one way to try to get the wall built. its got its own problems. just pick. and so i dont know how this is going to end. >> its not a movie. its real and also youre not watching it, youre writing it. you can do something about it. >> right. >> this is the thing interesting to me which is weve been waiting for the last two years for the moment republicans in congre congress will turn on donald trump. and we thought it ...

Completely agree with people coming out and were really angry with steve king and maybe were going to primary him but put your actions where your words are. put your money where your mouth is. are you actually going to do something about it? because whats happening is as we see people denouncinging what steve king is saying rhetorically, were also seeing them endorse the very same policies that underlie these words. so there really isnt a difference. there might be a difference of semantics and ...

The presidents bidding. >> look, if you look that package that the white house is proposing right now. fiver.7 billion. some is fencing, some is technology, some is more staff. the actual details arent really the wall and in another context, this would be perfectly uncontroversial and bipartisan and democrats arent doing it because they hate the president. >> thats not the case. we want to re0open the government. we dont think any president should hold the country hosturg for any demand. we shou...

After the hurricanes we had. its taking real money from people who need it to give to this project they know they dont need. and as soon as you make it real, they cant be in favor of that either. so i think theyre left back where they were before, which is do your job, vote on these bills. maybe trump will agree, maybe he wont and see if the senate and house override. thats in the constitution. thats the way this is supposed to work. >> heres what lindsey graham said today. everyone pfrs trying ...

I think hes crazy, unfit for office. im a republican and hes not. hes not a conservative republican. hes an opportunist. >> lindsey graham famously tweeted if we nominate trump, we will get destroyed and deserve it. then when republicans had unified control of the house, the senate and they could have passed 5.6 billion for the wall if they wanted to, they decided not to do it. but now here they are with air traffic controllers not getting paychecks, the president spouting off about wheels and n...