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People going unpaid. some of his former contractors can relate. >> by the way, government contractors are not going to get paid when the government comes back. so thats something important to note. joining us now is garrett haake on capitol hill and jeff bennett live at the white house. jeff, lets just start with the conversation that the president has in which he has threaten today declare a national emergency over the border wall. there have been a lot of discussions the last few days whethe...

Yes, lets get the government open and we can have a bigger fight for the rest of the funding anyway. that was coming whether or not you got $5 billion or more. i support getting $5 billion. i support getting more. but lets get the government open. >> senator gardner interviewed by the extremely garrett haake on capitol hill. >> our lead-off panel, jonathan allen, happens to be co-author of "shattered," the story of the hillary clinton presidential campaign. jill colvin, white house reporter for ...

Government shutdown that is about to enter its third week. but with trump digging in on his demand for $5 billion to fund the border wall and speaker pelosi calling the wall, quote, an immorality, the question becomes how much longer can mcconnell leave to the president to end the standoff. for where we stand now, joining me is kelly odonnell who i hope has had 20 seconds to die ghes everythi digest everything that handled. and also garrett haake. kelly, the president confirmed that he told cong...

Now, and this is romney though trying to modulate that criticism when garrett haake and others caught up with him in the hallway. >> if the president were to say things of divisive of a significant nature, and i would do that and have in the charlotteville attack, and the khashoggi approach, and have continued to point out places where we are different and this is the great thing of this democracy and where there are agreement agreements we come together, and disagreements, we can express our op...

He did me, he would have won the election, and does that make sense to you? and joining me on the hill, kasie hunt, and garrett haake, our great pair here on the hill, and at the white house nbcs kristen welker. kristen, take a first look at how the president is preparing to face-off against nancy pelosi and the new house majority. >> well, andrea, the president is a counter p puncher and you w it on full display yesterday, and that is the approach as he is preparing to go with this new realit...

Leaders of both parties from both houses set to attend. a lot of questions, however, about whether this is substance or just show on the part of the white house to understand why you need to understand the last 24 hours. yesterday afternoon democrats along with republicans accepted the white house invitation. hours later, however, the white house issued a statement saying the democratic plan was, quote, a nonstarter. this morning the white house suddenly said it would invite tv and print press i...

The senate republicans have nowhere to go and the president has nowhere to go, and he needs to accept the $1.3 billion, and the other 1.3 billion that he got last year, and he has not spent, and that is 2.6 billion for the barrier, and the voices of the american people say that we want people to go back to work. there are reports of trash in the national parks and museums are closed, and these are the things that begin to hit the americans in a real way. i they republicans are going to be feelin...

>> a lot of your supporters are hoping you will stand firm on that $5 billion mark or something big for the wall. are you willing to continue the shutdown if that money does not come? >> we have no choice. we have to have border security. were not giving up. we have to have border security and the wall is the big part of border security. >> a tweet posted just hours ago, trump signaled he would not support democrats plan to reopen the government when congress returns to the hill on thursday. thu...

President, hold firm. >> garrett haake there on the hill. let me get over to chance nichols on the north line of the white house. hans, the president had lengthy remarks related to this. i think the bottom line for him, shut down, dug in. thats it. >> reporter: it is clear the president wants to get something. now, what he actually wants, whether it is a fence with slats or an actual wall, the president when you listen to what he said in those remarks a couple of days ago, it is clear he is will...

Into next week when the democ t democrats take control of the house. we bring in garrett haake on the steps of the white house, and we have been talking about thef ri day with little to show for it. give us a sense of where the negotiations are standing at this hour if at all they are taking place. >> yeah, i wish i could bring more good news, but right now, the progress of are reopening the government is in a slim to none category. the last major move happened saturday when the vice president c...