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Thats going to be a crucial point moving forward. if you want to see some way out of this, maybe they can back fill and try to figure out just what they want to build and how much that could cost instead of focussing on the actual number. but democrats are also saying that as long as the government remains shuttered, as long as this partial shut down continues, having formal negotiations will be increasingly difficult. richard? >> based on what hans is saying, based on what your reporting staff ...

>> reporter: theres no end in sight to the government shutdown. forcing thousands of federal workers and their families to make tough sacrifices. >> its pretty scary not knowing when youre going to get paid. >> reporter: angelas husband is an air traffic controller for the federal aviation administration. >> hes considered essential employee, so he has to go to work. and i cant go to work because ive just had a baby. >> reporter: with no income, theyve slashing expenses, focussing on the mortgag...

Or love the president, border security goes hand-in-hand with national security. the safety of our communities, and public safety. we need to know who is in our communities that shouldnt be. we should be focussing on criminal activity without political interference. and there is only one entity that can fix immigration, even though there are laws on the books and we should stand by the rule of law, and we should be enforcing those laws. congress is the only entity that can fix this problem. and ...

Mnuchin. the president was talking about firing the chairman of the fed. apparently, he was told he cant do that without cause, cause usually defined as legal activity, not just a disagreement about the direction of interest rates. now hes focussing on mnuchin. is he looking for a scapegoat here? >> it shows that no one in trumps orbit is safe. even though the president did express confidence in mnuchin yesterday, it is no doubt what has been going on with the stock market has really robbed the ...

Often not based on the facts. the market is going down for a whole host of reasons right now, far out of the control of a fed chairman or a treasury secretary. tell us what is going on. >> you had a ten year bull run here and an economy that has been just on fire. investors have decided that this year 2018 is probably the best it is going to get. you is seen growth start to slow around the world. germany. china slowing down. there is a trade war that is a big problem here and unresolved. you hav...

That hospital. this incident, as you mentioned jim at the top of the report, is the second time a child has died in three weeks. you remember the seven-year-old laid to rest in a touching ceremony in her native country just yesterday. it has led to some actions here according to cdp. they are effectively going to take action here. among those actions they are taking is focussing principally on children ten years and younger on their custody. they will perhaps even get more help from the departme...

Awareha that he does not have t power to fire the federal reserve chair. first of all, does it at all bother you that the president himself t couldnt tweet out th statement, that some reason the secretary treasurer had to do it. its almost they feared he wouldnt say it? >> look, i dont spend a lot of time on focussing on the presidents tweets. i focus more on what is he going to do. i dont think that chairman powell is in any danger of being fired by the president. i think some of the presidents...

That for the president, he doesnt really care, i dont think, that much what it is he gets as much as he cares what his base, what he can call it in front of his base, and i remember early in the presidents time in office talking to one of his aides who had been dealing with him on a lot of issues and showing him maps and so forth, and saying, look, in this section, a wall may make sense. in this section, we can do it with electronic monitoring. in this section, weve got other technologies to go ...

Presidents view was anythings fine, just call it a wall. and you sort of saw that in his tweet today. but this really gets back to this fundamental question of what the opportunity cost is from focussing on this as our central national security issue. you know, if we actually believe that isis may not have been fully defeated, that its lost its territory, but there is still something like 30,000 isis fighters. if we actually believe that a rising china or an aggressive russia is a much bigger ch...

Was -- >> two thoughts. hes lying and his presidency is over. i covered him long enough. i just knew he wasnt telling the truth. i was shaken. i walked back to our booth in the back of the filing center there literally shaken. i thought that i had watch the presidency unravel. what i didnt realize was how president clinton and joe and mike mccurry and the staff was going to handle this, that they would spend as little time as possible focussing on what he called the politics of destruction frami...