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Aside, i think, and put the security of the american people first. >> in a weekend tweet, the president insisted this was in no way a concession. and he vowed to get his wall money in the next round of negotiations. conservative immigration hard-liners are furious and the headlines from coast to coast are harsh. the deal, not that much different than the plan the president rejected to trigger the shutdown. y democrats agreed to a former committee process to negotiate border security, but theres ...

I was at the food -- the restaurant today that jose andres hasope frnd federal employees. its a cold day in washington and it looks like a breadline out of the depression. people waiting in the cold to get their soup or sandwich. but were not in a depression. the white house says the econaim is great and the stock market is great. so why are people waiting in a bread line like during this? its because of this president. >> your preference is you move the presidents proposal through a normal comm...

February 8th to give us the opportunity to dialogue about and improve the trump proposal. thats what i hope well do on thursday. reject the trump proposal and reopen government. i was at the food -- the restaurant today that jose andres hasope frnd federal employees. its a cold day in washington and it looks like a breadline out of the depression. people waiting in the cold to get their soup or sandwich. but were not in a depression. the white house says the econaim is great and the stock market...

Today. congressional democrats saying how -- how are they likely to respond to this new offer from the president? >> i think theyll take this opening and with one important caveat and that is, anything that the president wants to talk about, if he wants to trade the $5.7 billion he wants for border security or a wall, although democrats are not going to go for a wall, thats still fairly certain, in favor of some sort of improved status for the so-called dreamers, for those individuals that jeff ...

No kidding. the point is, if theyre going to go through the committee process, obviously 5.7 billion for a wall is not going to pass either the house or the senate. thats been demonstrated several times over the last couple of months any way and well before that. if for some reason the president were to agree to sign those spending bills and reopen the government and then negotiate, well, then, weve gone someplace but its unlikely that the president would go for that kind of deal. >> maybe theyr...

We reopen government. i hope he says well reopen government and lets sit down and talk. dollar amount has not been the challenge. the issue is do you use the money the right or wrong way. i think what our goal is we dont want to use the money the wrong way. we want to use it to do what our border security professionals say is the most important thing to do. we dont want to use it for a vanity project. >> okay. again, the senate in session right now. kaines compatriot colleague from the commonwea...

Thats so important, the thing about those investigations which is really naturaling at a lot of republicans, particularly those who served on the relevant committees, is their behavior now comes under a greater scrutiny. the things they did inside the committee process that done to the benefit of the president, to protect the president, and that will be exposed in this. and put the party in the unenviable position to absorbing as much as the trump mess as they can. >> paul, can you weigh in on t...

Stalwart republicans saying, lets reopen the government for another three weeks. put the presidents $5.7 billion, now up to a $7 billion proposal to fund the wall, put it through the committee process. put it on the floor of the house and see what happens. obviously, thats not going to pass congress, but just the fact that some republicans are willing to take that step and reopen government, even if temporarily, diverges from the white house line. this thing the thing to look for if republicans ...

Now they can tell us how they really feel. im talking about outgoing senators who either werent re-elected or chose to get out of politics. take a listen. >> all the evidence points to an unsettling truth. the senate as an institution is in crisis, or at least may be in crisis. the committee process lies in shambles. regular order is a relic of the past. and compromise once the guiding credo of this great institution is now synonymous with surrender. >> something is broken, and if we dont have t...

As you can imagine, it did not take very long for democrats to reject that offer. nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, my understanding the way this went is it was chuck schumer who picked up the phone to call mitch mcconnell and say this wouldnt fly. ive been talking to senators in both parties over the last 30 minutes or so. democrats in particular said this was never going to get off the ground. to put it simply, thats not how this works. the president doesnt just get a billion dollars to spend on wh...