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>> they did get their money back. >> they did get their money back. a lot of people dont live with six months of savings so they can pay their bills, take their kids to the doctor. this is a big deal for a lot of people. we also have to go back and say as the congressman said, you said, kate, the president was willing to sign the c.r. without border funding until he got bullied by ann coulter and rush limbaugh. >> i dont think so. >> they took him to the wood shed and suddenly, look, mitch mccon...

>> the issue for next week and i think it will be interesting to see what happens and youll be reporting on it, im sure, what about the senate republicans? basically, i think nancy pelosi has to for now stick with the democratic position and repass the cr that the senate -- >> which had no money. >> they may add some disaster relief, which had no money for the border wall. trump will say unacceptable. the senate republicans are in the middle. and so far over the first two years, the senate repub...

Republican voters. you look at that same poll to say keep doing what youre doing. that tells me both sides have to figure out some kind of a compromise. >> what are the chances that happens? because if you look at the options, i think it was playbook who layed it out this morning, the options that pelosi will have. that shes either going to pass a full year, ech, cr, sorry, continuing resolution. shes going to pass a six bill pack only plus that bill for dhs. or the thing the president passed or...

Who has the appetite to extend this the longest and who the shortest right now, would you say? >> i just got off the phone with a democratic aide who says that democrats are not going to budge on what the senate already passed, which is this idea that essentially there will be no border funding in the cr. so, democrats are digging in and saying theyre not going to do this. president trump through his incoming chief of staff, mick mulvaney, has already signaled that the white house is willing to ...

Would you say? >> i just got off the phone with a democratic aide who says that democrats are not going to budge on what the senate already passed, which is this idea that essentially there will be no border funding in this cr. so democrats are saying theyre not going to do this. president trump has already signaled the white house is willing to come down on the initial $58 billion ask but the president himself has not fully endorsed that. the key thing here is the house is going to turn into de...

So were in a situation where no one really knows what to do. no one knows what the president will actually sign. >> right. >> you make the point that the presidents backed himself into a corner. isnt it on the president now to back himself back out of it? >> yes. hes the president. hes got a lead here. you know, if he wants the government to open back up again. t there is a part of me that feels he wants to have this fight to draw a contrast, but i dont see a sep facenario where democrats money ...

View, as well, seems like a political fight versus actually about immigration. >> well, i look forward to marco rubio signing or signing on to the clean cr to come back his way after nancy pelosi and the democrats take the majority in the house because he and the other republicans by voice vote passed the clean cr so when it comes back the same, very same cr that went over there, i do expect marco rubio and the other republicans to put their money where their mouth is, sign on the dotted line. o...

He already -- lets not forget here. the president backed off of his $5 billion demand, and said he would go with a cr that the senate put up at his direction, and then he changed his mind and went back to his original demand. he boxed himself in, and if he were to slip off of the $5 billion demand again this soon in the process, i think that he would really eviscerate a lot of he negotiated, and so i dont think we will see much movement from the president. we know democrats do not see any politi...

Were playing like adults interested in solving problems, for donald trump to say im going to do a cr. we stop the shutdown and im going to give us a six-month deadline to do bipartisan immigration reform. do a nixon in china. theres just absolutely nothing in our experience that he would ever take the bait to actually act like a real leader in this regard. >> because margaret, hes essentially made the calculation here, driven by the ann coulters, and rush limbaughs of the world that not deliveri...

Him money spent in the last budget, so it looked like he was going to compromise with the cr, and he did not. why? because ann coulter smopoke up, and mitch mcconnell is not going to use the nuclear option, and nobody trust the president on this issue. >> and that its important to keep in mind, democrats have been in favor of border security, the 2006 safe fence act, and they were fine with that. is the issue now that this is donald trumps big and beautiful wall? thats the question. >> i want to...