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Senate couldnt pass the bill, they couldnt commence any democrats to vote yes. audibly democrats and independents who voted five years ago for hundreds of miles of new border barrier, 34 of them still work here. >> bret: peter doocy, thank you. republican congressman steve king is fighting back against a "new york times" article, he says it suggest he is an advocate for white nationalism and white supremacy. heres the quote from "the new york times." "they hunted that language, how did they beco...

The president couldnt pass his wall when the republicans controlled the house and the senate because they knew it was a bad idea. >> i dont see how it -- i mean, the democrats have said they are not going to spend a dollar. not one dollar on a physical boundary and i dont think the president -- president trump and mulvane and republican former colleagues i dont think they are going to capitulate to use lindseys word on pass an appropriations bill that doesnt have funding for it. >> kristin fishe...

I imagine the president will say, thats what you said two weeks ago or three weeks ago and the house passed the bill you said they couldnt pass. >> he already said that. he said nancy pelosi was wrong when she said republicans dont support this because thigh supported the measure in the house. that said, i dont think republicans are supportive of a shutdown for the record. they dont want to see employees not get their paychecks. they dont want to deal with the o optics of this. i think, although...

Base rallies toward. and they were willing to short circuit a bipartisan deal that was reached in the senate, put on the floor by senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and passed unanimously. and then with allies in the house, move forward on a bill they knew couldnt pass in the senate that had that $5 billion for the wall. there are negotiations that are ongoing. vice president mike pence, mick mulvaney, jared kushner were on the hill for a couple of hours shuttling back and forth between offi...

Figure out a path forward at some point. when it comes to how did we get here, its actually pretty simple. its political incentives. i think the president and the white house made clear, the president specifically, that they were going to have this fight that the president promised he was going to have, that he campaigned on, that he believes is his issue that the base rallies toward. and they were willing to short circuit a bipartisan deal that was reached in the senate, put on the floor by sen...

Patience with the u.s. president. heres what we learned. is the trump/putin bromance over? after president trump snubbed the russian leader at this weekends g20 summit, calling off a bilateral meeting last minute, claiming its because russia seized several ukrainian military boats and 24 sailors, snarky comments from vladimir putin. >> translator: weve had two small boats, gifts from the u.s. to the ukrainians that couldnt pass through the strait. >> reporter: despite the fact that the boats wer...

It is what each of you decide about yourself and what you want to be about. these are not my words, but, man, i do own the sentiment and it is food for thought for me. and i hope it is for you as well. thank you for watching tonight. cnn tonight with don lemon starts right now. >> i love when you talk about your dad. you call him pop. we just talked about him at dinner the other night and that story you shared about him and his favorite dessert, which is -- which was -- >> apple pie. >> apple pi...

Experience that we felt after i covered -- i was in the room with joe manchin when that happened. and the conversation started out as lets ban these assault weapons. lets limit the size of magazines. lets do all of these things and what they came down to was a proposal to expand background checks that then couldnt pass the congress. can these high school students make a difference? >> well, they couldnt pass the congress not just because of republicans, right? it also couldnt pass because of tho...

I think the reality of it is when i was listening to those remarks, duon, i thought of the man who was recently deported, husband of a wife, with kids, and he didnt do anything. so i dont believe someone who built his campaign on calling mexicans drug dealers and rapists, i dont believe a man who has spent time tweeting about a wall, and the importance of the wall. no wall, no deal. i dont believe him today because he doesnt have the compassion to make this type of policy decision. >> representa...

Of policy decision. >> representative jolly, your former republican colleagues in the house are taking a hardline on this, do you think theyre going to see this the same way the president does in. >> no, absolutely not, listen, republicans havent been able to solve immigration reform in 30 years, the irony here is, whatever passes the senate, theres likely no possible way it would pass the house of representatives, what a bipartisan package would look like in the house simply couldnt pass -- in ...