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I need his income. >> reporter: hes getting question from some so desperate worried they cant fill their gas tanks. >> they asked if its league tool sleep in the car. 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, ...

Of the reason. >> exactly. if it looks like duck and quacks like a duck, then it might be a duck. so part of what were dealing here is that theres been the system saying -- and i 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 sa...

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 reopen the government. we dont think any president should hold the country hosturg for any demand. we should reopen the government and weve always said were lap happy to have that conversation. we provided the level of funding the president actually asked for in his budget this year,...

>> they did not ask for 5.6 billion to build a wall? >> no, thats exactly right. i guess the presidents folks want itting norred because he totally changed his own budget. that was passed in the senate appropriations committee. we did add language that it should be restricted to existing barriers and that was supported by the republican senators on the appropriations committee. >> i think this is key because it has gotten lost. there is an appropriations process and lots of it nonkaunlt ruvrlgs....

Budge toot congress, correct? >> correct. >> that budget, which is made mulvaney, presumably the president but who knows. he comes and said this is what i want and they ask for 1.6 billion for border security. >> exactly right. >> they did not ask for 5.6 billion to build a wall? >> no, thats exactly right. i guess the presidents folks want itting norred because he totally changed his own budget. that was passed in the senate appropriations committee. we did add language that it should be restri...

Beating trump and i can imagine every one of them losing to trump and the odds are on the democrats to win. and thats "hardball" for now. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on "all in." >> you can name it whatever they can name it peaches. i dont care what they name it. >> trapped president spins his wheel. >> they say wheels are medieval too. but some things dont change. wheel walls. >> why some republicans are begging for a emergency bailout as the suffering continues. the...

>> im not going to try to get into the mind of donald trump because i dont think theres a whole lot of space there. i think hes a cook. 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 decid...

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 wall. in fact he called it the king wall on the house floor in 2006. >> im going toing do the 2:00 drill on the king wall. i say we need a few other things on top of the wall and one is to put a little bit of wire on to...

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 clammoring to give away their power in congress because they cannot admit the emperor has no clothes. his bill passed yesterday in the senate and today in the house. first lets start with that, senator. does that mean that goes to the pres...

[laughs] >> im not attacking him. trevor noah is my fellow commonwealth citizen from south africa and i dont want to attack him. i dont know what those 57 comedy writers are doing all day. cher seems to be the one person in the country who actually believes in government shutdown dinner theater. she looks out of her window, shean cant see over the border wall around her own estate, and she thinks the streets arear full of people who are dying of disease, their corpses are going unburied, there a...