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Him, they know that, they just dont care. i have to ask you this, charlie. i found this really interesting. this is a tweet from jon meacham, and it says, america should build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven against the flow of immigrants. georgia governor clifford walker at a 1924 convention of the ku klux klan, then a powerful force at a time of strain for the white working class. charlie, past is prologue? your reaction? >> yeah, weve had no nothing movements in this country before....

>> so options include national emergency. >> uh-hum. >> emergency funding from the pentagon that people so closely guard and wouldnt want to give up or actually coming together on some sort of negotiated deal. >> uh-hum. look, even though he is in transient the democrats the leadership is in transigedent. there are democrats lower in the rank and file trying to come up with a solution. lindsey graham told reporters today that he and other things that they could add to the wall, reforms to the im...

You lie so much. and even the people that support him, they know that, they just dont care. i have to ask you this, charlie. i found this really interesting. this is a tweet from jon meacham, and it says, america should build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven against the flow of immigrants. georgia governor cliff ard walker at a 1924 convention of the ku klux klan, then a powerful force at a time of strain for the white working class. charlie, past is prologue? your reaction? >> yeah, we...

Means the u.s. is levying threats against our own ally in nato. its all very confusing and thats what we are grateful to talk to christian witness, former state department senior advisor in the trumpet budget ministrations, joins us now. im not here to attack the kurds, but im all of a sudden hearing that we are -- the well-being of kurdish forces is now more important than getting our troops home. when did this become a critical national security imperative? >> thats an excellent question anyth...

Newm newcomer, gotten the numbers wrong. she said thats not her point. >> one of the criticisms for you is that your math is fuzzy. the "washington post" recently awarded you four pinocchios about federal spending. >> if people really want to blow up one figure here or one word there, i would argue theyre missing the forest for the trees. i think there is a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually and semantically correct than about being morally right. >> its interesting to...

Longest running government shutdown in u.s. history. >> it would be next weekend, youre exactly right. >> the trick is a lot of these shutdowns as you say are on disputes that can be resolved somewhere in the middle, right? you want x dollars, i want y dollars, i want to billion the budget in seven years, you want nine, lets meet at eight. were not in that situation now because the wall has become such a symbol, its not a matter of cutting the $5.6 billion in half, its now become a question of m...

Borders by any means necessary, victor. you know, the bottom line is none of us on the panel are privileged to sensitive information, what secretary neilson and the president talk about and whats going on. this is imperative that we protect our borders. >> i have to bring you back to the question. >> right. >> there are two separate bills. theres one that has to do with funding of the border wall. thats just homeland security. the other bill, hr 21 has to do with opening the rest of the governme...

Terry mcauliffe was on anderson right now and wrote an op-ed and heres what he said. when the takes are another four years of trump degrading our country do we want to use this as an experiment, an idea liftic and unrealistic policies? also a political imperative for 2020. his experience matters. >> i think thats always going to be an argument when you have been in politics for a long time. >> thats a favorable argument to you and as we have seen, experience doesnt always win the day. you have t...

Theres -- >> why is that, rick? just curious. sorry to interrupt you. why is that? 800,000 people are going without pay. why does he feel little pressure? >> because he feels the imperative in his administration is to get the border secure, and that was something that he promised. republicans put him off and said, you know, look, we cant get it done this time but we will get it done later and he went along with it and hes not going to budge anymore. he put off the priority for the administration...

This could go on for quite a while. and its because of what kelsey just said which is that weve moved past a normal situation where you could split the difference, right? its not like one side is saying zero, the other side is saying five, so lets do 2.5. if its immoral on one side and imperative on the other, it has to be a wall and not just border security, theyve both staked out positions that are hard to reconcile at this point. >> sam stein, were going to talk about this a little bit later ...