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National emergency on the issue of immigration to try to get the funding. the president had that option on the table for some time. we talked about it. its unclear that that would actually work because democrats vowed to try to block that sort of action in court. on the other end, the president could try to secure certain funds from other banks of government in the department of defense, in the treasury department, but its unclear, according to experts, that he would get anywhere near the amount...

Businesses around the federal government offices and people who own businesses or services that the federal employees playing in like your hair salon or dog groomer. the economy is effected as well and he is hit on several fronts. if he does this again, one thing youll see is politics is about service and he is not serving the people by shutting the government down over a wall that has nothing to do with the c.r. >> april and errol, stay with us. we have a lot more to talk about. >> they are tal...

They are with regard to national security and securing the border. >> couldnt they have done that in december with a three month continuing resolution and not have people go without two pay periods without being paid? i mean essentially the cr from december would have gotten them to february 8th. this gets them to the 15th. nothing else changed. >> right. they could have done it during that period. they could have done it the first two years. >> wheres the deal here the president says that exist...

Announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> youre watching cnn on this busy friday afternoon. im brooke baldwin. lets just jump right in to it. any moment the president will be standing behind that podium in the rose garden with the news the nation has been waiting for, demanding for the last 35 days. two sources tell cnn a deal to end the shutdown is near, but it does not resolve the border wall conflict. it just forces it to come to a head in three weeks time. thats how long a proposed continuing...

Their selves for a shutdown that just caused a great deal of agony across the country. it was striking. he made this claim that there are government employees who have been getting through this just fine. he suggested that government employees are getting through this just fine. that just suggests that hes not looking at the real -- when he looks outside the window of the oval office, hes not looking at the real world and so that is why if folks are wondering at home, could we be here in the exa...

Dont need 2,000 miles of a concrete wall. ive already said that, and voted for barriers, so what are we fighting over at this point? >> marie: i think donald trump or political teams so what happened in the senate yesterday that mitch mcconnell was very shrewd in setting forward both bills to show demonstrating to the president that his plan had fewer votes, actually, and eventually what happened. a cr to fight over this a few more weeks. the president yesterday at this time the white house sayi...

An hour off of his scheduled time but my understanding, just the finer points of this speech, we dont know exactly what the president is going to announce today but we do know the folks from capitol hill, a continuing resolution to fund the government through february 15th or 3 weeks. im not sure of the exact time. in our brief from the hill it does not include money for a border wall. this was a nonstarter for president trump as recently as yesterday said any cr needed to include some down paym...

That, yes, hes been able to keep the republicans unified in the senate, we need the 60 votes. joe manchin came through but no other democrat. >> laura: cory gardner breaking ranks today? got some people -- by the way, never combine our show, i always liked him. he wont come on the show. whats going on? >> some of the republican senators vote for those whom are cr, which is outrageous. we need people to stand strong on the border security and the president its right on this issue, its what the am...

And border security if they couldnt even agree on when and how to hold state of the union? so that was important. even president trump said late last night, he thought that speaker pelosis decision to postpone things was reasonable, shannon. >> shannon: so the big question, chad, if you can answer, you will win the nobel peace prize. how today and this? how much longer before the members can reach an agreement? >> i dont know if a word real-year are is a word because this just got realer. govern...

Belated congratulations on my party. >> thank you. >> neil: would you vote for what youve heard? >> i will vote for what ive heard. largely because this president is proposing it and is willing to sign it. ive said all along im happy to vote for a bill that reopens the government that the president is willing to sign. if hes going to veto it, no point in voting. >> neil: you had a three-week window. if the president says if he doesnt get some funding for a wall, we could re-visit this all over a...