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Kinds of partners willing to deal with these things. >> but its never been just the fence or the wall. >> it has for him. >> no. its been the 15,000 beds rejected by democrats. >> he never mentioned it the way he does the wall. we had to pull it out of him. we had to force them to talk about the other priorities because theyre so high on the list. >> i can tell you that we in congress are talking about it and the president and his team set that up in their proposals. we had 50,000 beds. that we ...

Rex tillerson congressman chip roy of tension text and congressman mcclint to be of california. you have reservations about this train work. what do you say to those that think well, thats the best offer out there and its better than another shut down with the president getting beaten up every day? good evening laura, thanks for having us on. i wish i was in texas instead of here in the swamp. im forced from trying to make republicans not make a bone head deal quote unquote. we should be focus...

Until we see it, i hate to tell you i dont know where we stand, but we dont. >> reporter: the white house is leaving a lot of wiggle room for the president to make some kind of decision at some point about whether or not he is going to support this focussing in on what they are calling nuances. there were as we know from over the weekend concerns about any restrictions that might be in this bill for how the money can be spent or where it can be spentd and how they can detain people. i think the ...

Presidential hopeful in cory booker is hitting the campaign trail. hes going to speak to students in sumter, south carolina. south carolina the first southern state to hold a primary in 2020. >> big deal. it comes as the already crowded field of white house hopefuls grows larger by the day. senators elizabeth warren and amy klobuchar the latest to join the race. over the weekend. rebecca buck is with the campaign. he has promised to run a relentlessly positive and unifying campaign. what will be...

The united states of america. >> he gave an interview to "the washington post" saying he wants to focus on racial inequality. there are ongoing inequities to access. i want to heal that pain and make insure all virginians have equal opportunity. i think im the one that can do that for virginia. >> too little, too late. >> im offended by that. its almost like let me fix whats going on here so i -- let me go and focus on something else so that people can stop focussing on the things i did when i w...

Stick with the script. to talk about the themes in this, democrats and republicans can agree on, you talked about ending hiv by 2030, infrastructure, lowering prescription drug costs, i expect to see most on the democratic side standing up and clapping. this president liked the feel. he liked how that felt. liked the response of that, so that was, i would say, a little bit easier to get done than sfra infrastructure and some of these things hes going to propose because that was moving all right....

Live of the white house. those were the headlines and now the president apparently complaining, i dont want to be so nice to democrats, what more are you learning about the speech? >> you have seen white house officials come out and say the president is going to call for unity, something they think could happen in washington. behind closed doors, they are not that optimistic after the president and senate minority leader chuck schumer spent the day firing back at each other before the president ...

Hes looked at so many candidates on the democratic side that he hasnt gotten around to everybody yet. but now that senator harris is starting to get a lot of buzz, you can expect the president to train his sights on her pretty soon. she has been voting against his priorities, voting against his nominees, voting against even any money for the wall even when some democratic senators voted for a packaged deal that would include money for the wall. she has been antagonistic to the presidents agenda....

Cannot be december direction of evidence. mueller understands people will complain about that and see it as heavy handed. >> there had to be the intent to lie. here he is last night here on cnn defending himself. >> where is the russian collusion, chris? where is the wikileaks collaboration? where is the evidence that i received anything from wikileaks or julian assange and passed it on to donald trump or the trump campaign? it simply does not exist. >> the point of collusion, is he wrong? >> we...

Lets focus on what matters and what we know about that is focussing on keeping this government shutdown. >> thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me, man. >> when it comes to the shutdown, a big heap of blame belongs on the head of mitch mcconnell. he seems to have decided his oath he took was to the president and not to the people. why dont you go to him and say let us do our job. theres bills we should be voting on. thats why were here. let us do our job. >> two points. were all to...