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The department of homeland security secretary. this is another sort of point of fact about the differences between of the two meetings. the longer this meeting goes on and longer to see folks at the microphones, i think the more substantive that the conversation was and if you scream at each other, you can do that pretty quick. >> lets ask you about a tweet sent out by democratic senator chris murphy saying that mcconnell says the bill passed by the house to reopen government is a nonstarter wit...

The difficulties in trying to negotiate the resolution of a matter with someone who doesnt always tell the truth and someone who doesnt keep his word. if you remember, the president approved the prior deal. thats why the senate voted for it unanimously, because he had agreed to this idea of funding the six departments and doing a short-term cr for the department of homeland security so we could work out these issues. then he changed his mind after the senate voted. so, i think, again, theres a l...

But to no real effect because she will have no -- nothing to do with that decision. >> april, how is the new speaker going to deal with all these conflicting pressures shes understand from within her own party? >> well, you know, i hate to ask that question -- that question to even be asked in 2019 for a woman. shes been in this position before. were in different times. the stakes are higher. we have so much on the table, things that are real and then some things that are made up and things that...

We talking about here? what would this money go to? a wall? fencing? >> well, the second piece of legislation provides for a cr, a continuing resolution that up through february 8th, and that will give us plenty of time to talk about border security. in the past, both the senate and the house have passed bipartisan legislation that provides relief for dreamers, for tps recipients and border security. every single time the president has shut it down. >> thats the question to me. there has been in...

Paid. it is interesting to see the president undercut his own vice president in that meeting in is the second time the vice president has tried to talk to lawmakers about the government shutdown, reassuring them the government would sign the cr, which did not happen. >> he dispatched mike pence to capitol hill last weekend to sit down with chuck schumer to talk about this. no deal was made out of that. and even then senator schumer told politico they didnt necessarily feel as though vice preside...

Kaitlan said, josh, basically the president undercut his own vice president. you think about mike pence. he was the one that told congress that, look, the president will sign a c.r. the senate passes it and then the president said he wont. and mike pence tried to negotiate a deal with a proposal for 2.5 billion for the wall that was rebuffed by chuck schumer the president seemed surprised and said i dont want to accept anything less than 5 billion is what he was say ing. what do you think of all...

Change the president, and right now hes not in a position to overplay his hand, and nancy pelosi can. >> i wonder, though, if the president will be hearing those sorts of stories, if he will be open to hearing those sorts of stories. >> im pretty sure he watches cable tv. >> if he hears those stories, he will make it to the places he watches and theyll be saying, i wonder about that. michelle goldberg, this idea of a wall, the president didnt bring it up and didnt start pushing it until the very...

Out there by itself and the rest of the funded. we had a cr that got us through four years ago. i think whatever is the most con do you s ducive situation for brokering a deal and getting the workers paid tomorrow is the best deal. the inspiration for me was, as susan mentioned, a woman who was an administrative assistant for the federal air martials who had stage 4 cancer, and she didnt know how she was going to make her co-pays because we had to furlough her. as we said earlier, the most basic...

They know that they dont have the leverage to need to get what he really wants, and $5 billion up for a wall, and so they want to know what else they could get. >> garrett headache up on capitol hill, and how much of the box is mitch mcconnell in as the senate conveen, because they have 53 republicans, but they kapt do anything without the house going along with it. >> that is right. when the democrats pass these spending measure, sits going to be increasing pressure on mitch mcconnell to solve ...

Effectively fund some parts of the government. were already dealing with a partial government shutdown. its still more complicated than that. nancy pelosi has announced that she and her colleagues would like to reopen the government. they say that will only happen if the funding that they can secure does not include funding for a wall. let me break this down for you just a bit to explain it for the people that arent awash in this and not sure how this works. democrats, blake, have unveiled a sho...