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During the state of the union address, so they decided to reserve it for a moment or a crisis." well, nancy, heres your crisis. whats your audience, is it wavering republicans who by now have forgiven talk of the wall and are ready to get behind steel slats? >> well, i think the audience is twofold, one is the general public, i think that trump is speaking to his base. we saw that with, you know, sean hannitys show tonight. then, too, really a lot of this crescendo as annie and phil have said th...

Be a fraught act of brinksmanship at the dawn of a newly divided government sparking a firestorm with house democrats and certain challenges in federal courts. but trump believes forcing a dramatic reckoning by executive action may be necessary given the democratic resistance and the walls symbolic power for his core voters, officials said." more on that in a bit. tomorrow afternoon, the v.p. and trumps head of homeland security will head to the hill to tend to republicans and heres how fraught ...

But theres simply no factual basis in that. weve heard from union leaders representing various federal worker unions say that thats not the case at all. that many of these workers are suffering, as you saw in that interview with vaughn hillyard out in colorado, and are impacted in negative ways by this. its not just the workers, by the way. were now into the third week of this shutdown. were starting to see impacts in communities. impacts on peoples lives. national parks are in real distress rig...

Been building behind closed doors with staffers over the weekend, with democratic staffers and republican staffers on the hill. with reporters today in a briefing with this trip to the border later this week. theyre also trying to, you know, shore up republican support who, fearing that republicans could defect and vote for the house bill to re-open parts of the government. they want to create this growing sense of urgency about a crisis. >> nancy, as you know, this will be the presidents first ...

Republicans to stay in a bloc. they dont want republicans to start falling in line with the democrats and suggesting that the funding bill should pass and the shutdown should end. >> phil, you and ive had many discussions at this hour of the night on this presidents empathy challenges. >> yeah. >> having said that, hes now talking about these regular folks. upwards of 800,000 of breadwinners who get their check from the federal government. 80% of whom live outside the washington, d.c., area. whe...