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Presidents sticking point. we know the presidents ready to put an offer on the table later this afternoon. the democrats are going to present this in a series of legislative packages this week to the senate. the fundamental problem, between both sides, remains the same. the president wants a wall, congressional democrats do not want a wall. well have to see if now that theyre offering a little bit of extra incentives on either side of the table, if one of these sides decides to move in either di...

Breaking news. president trump is on his way back to washington from the south eern border. he seems poised to declare a national emergency to get the wall funding he has been demanding. the white house is prepping a legal defense of the move as we have learned mr. trump rejected a compromise proposal by a small group of republicans. also breaking, the former fixer who knows many of mr. trumps secrets is now set to testify in public. michael cohen has agreed ed td appear before the house oversig...

>> there is no excuse to shut down government on this issue or any other issue. i suggested that we revisit a compromise proposal that we brought forth earlier this year. i helped craft it. it was offered by senators king and rand. reporter: one of the presidents top advisors says this goes beyond the wall, its a matter of national security. >> this is a president who knows we have been spending billions of dollars helping other nations protect their borders. its time we do it here. reporter: no...

Would vote to advance brett kavanaughs nomination from the judiciary committee, but then two things happened. a, he was cornered in an elevator by two assault survivors who demanded he explain his support of kavanaugh. and b, hours later there was the moment during fridays committee meeting when flakes friend and committee member chris coons implored his colleagues to let the fbi investigate. >> when you were making that compromise proposal, you were lobbying your friend, senator flake. >> yes. ...

Essentially denying services to law-abiding americans and denying funding to our border agents, how you can negotiate on daca during that. i think the administrations position is as soon as they reopen government, we will resume conversations on daca. its hard to negotiate when they are keeping our border agents not paid, troops unpaid and not paying for american services. >>julie: what do republican lawmakers want to see out of any deal? >> i think they want a complete win on this one. presiden...

Important issue. the idea theyd final lie a compromise proposal by the end of the week, thats now gone. they are sending different drafts of proposals, but anybody who thought republicans could finish this, lock this up so they would be prepared to vote when they came back, they would be wrong. >> lets be honest, phil. i think what happened with the president and the demands for gop electeds to step up and talk about it hastened their exit out of town. we couldnt find anybody to come on this mor...

216 votes needed for passage. >> i dont see how that would work. >> reporter: and that means leadership cautious behind the scenes sits in a very similar place with one senior gop aide telling cnn that any talk of a final deal is, quote, premature and the best way to describe the new talks would be very early discussions. with only one goal. any compromise must add net votes. >> now were throwing around concepts to improve the bill. thats occurring right now. but that is not to say that we are r...

Now the president -- the white house just sort of shrugged. >> principal stand rolling back wall street. a year ago the president, jay carney, others said they were hostage takers. >> they shut down the government. >> democrats tried last time. >> what democrats said that they would not be willing to support this compromise proposal because they had concerns about specific provisions. the president disagreed with that. what they would have done and what speaker boehner said he was prepared to to...

Didnt like one law. >> reporter: now with one faction of the democratic party at least flirting with the shutdown, the white house attacks on republicans are a distant memory. >> jay carney and others said they were hostage takers e terrorists basically. >> but they did shut down the government. the democrats said they would not be willing to support this compromise proposal because they had concerns about specific provisions. >> now concerns about provisions over wall street reform, democrats s...

Priorities that will benefit the middle class. just to take one pertinent example, there is funding in that that is continued for early childhood education programs, something the president will talk about across the street in less than an hour. we are certainly gratified that there continue to be, that there is a commitment of resources for that important priority. on other side of the ledger republicans identified as their priority to try to undermines the presidents effort to reform our broke...