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Audience, what congressmen jason chaffetz didnt mention is the offenses act was not solely about the border aspect of it, it was about smart and effective strategies. there are different ways of approaching border security. i find it interesting there has been a shift in talking points to broaden this out to border security but this does come down to the fact that the president thinks compromise is a bad word. i think republicans need to look internally and criticize democrats for making policy ...

What jason chaffetz didnt mention is it was not solely about the border act, the border wall aspect of it. it was about smart and effective strategies, drones, different ways of approaching border security. i find it interesting there has been a shift in the talking points on republicans to broaden this out the border security. this does come down to the fact the president thinks compromise is a bad word and republicans need to really look internally at remember when they use to criticize democr...

Thank you for watching all the details there. joining us democratic congressman peter welsh of vermont. he is the democratic chief deputy whip. representative, thank you for being here with us on this evening. you heard what mike viqueira was saying. he said do not expect that the democratic side will be budging in general is what he was reporting. would you agree with that statement? >> well, i do. but i think the real issue here is the president hasnt indicated what his position is. when you l...

Something on the floor if he didnt think the president was going to support it. so what changed with the president saying he would veto anything of the sort. aides have informed me this largely turned on conservative allies the president has in the house to made clear this is the promise the president had made, this was a fight this should have now and conservative commentators who made clear this was the comment the president made and now is the time to fight. while i can tell you republicans s...

To get the money for it. its not politically possible. anyway, it was mexico who was supposed to pay for the wall, and he had secretary mattis send troops to the border in a pre-election stunt. talk to me. >> look, i think weve seen this over and over again before, right? remember when he had the meeting on immigration reform and daca? and then agreed to that? and then the right wing came out, criticized him, and he went back. do you remember when he had the meeting on gun reform? made promises,...

Commentators, steve cortez, and charlie denn. is this going to end well for the president, steve? >> i think it will, because it will end well eventually for america. there may be a lot of near-term consternation. i dont want a government shutdown and i realize it will bring pain to some people, but its well worth the temporary problems of shutting down part of the government to permanently shut down what is a porous border that is a massive threat to our national and economic security. so im gl...

Turn around and come back home. we were under the impression the president would sign this continuing resolution. why he changed his mind, who knows. theres a lot of rumors that he respond to outside commentators. that may be one reason, i dont know. but it defies logic, and it is certainly something not in the interests of the american people. >> he just tweeted out a picture of what he described as a steel slat fence, a steel slat barrier, he actually called it in his tweet. do you think thats...

It. its not politically possible. and anyway, it was mexico who was supposed to pay for the wall. and he had secretary mattis send troops to the border in a pre-election stunt. talk to me. >> look, i think weve seen this over and over again before. right? remember when he had the meeting on immigration reform and daca and then agreed to that and then the right wing came out, criticized him and he went back? do you remember when he had the meeting on gun reform? made promises and then right wing ...

Both sides had agreed to pass a clean continuing resolution that would keep the government open until february. so the big question now is, what happens next? jim, there are republicans in the house who believe that this opens the door for democrats and the white house to begin another conversation on border wall funding. but that doesnt seem to be based in any kind of reality. democrats have said over and over again that that is a nonstarter for them. they felt like they had a deal on the table...

The american people. >> on full display this week as the country careens towards a government shutdown. one source close to the president has described him as, quote, 100% in a tailspin. trump torpedoed a spending bill for his $5 billion in border wall funding. it seems the president is letting a handful of hard right politicians and media personalities govern the country for him. once trump appeared to waver on that border wall promise fox news commentators, personalities like anne colter and m...