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As a matter of national security. weve seen administration officials increasingly use the word crisis to describe whats going on at the southern border, and weve seen them use some misleading statistics to build their case as trump considers declaring a national emergency to get funding for his border wall, bypass congress if hes unable to do it legislatively. brianna, the speech tonight also comes two days before the president goes to the southern border, a trip hell most likely use as a platfo...

Very little progress. >> now, as the shutdown gets closer to becoming the third longest in history, a white house official says the president may decide to declare a national emergency to get border wall funding. live from the white house now. white house reporter sarah westwood. they are saying that he may be more inclined now, as he sees these meetings not being very fruitful or productive, to go ahead and declare a national emergency. has the president, do we know, given any time line as to h...

Citd --continue to be obstinate. see potential for the most compromise? >> you know come you might think infrastructure would yet. but we had a couple of years >> he mass the right to do it and he should do it. where there was an opportunity if he clearly has the right for the white house to cooperate under the law to do it and thats what it takes to get it with democrats as well as republicans on capitol hill on done, lets do it. eric: it would be appealed and infrastructure and very little cha...

From leaders and from it the president in the situation room yesterday with democrats reiterating their demands while talks continue and the president saying hed be willing to keep the government parlgtially shuttered until he gets funding for the border wall. and wont have the principals this time around. the president is reprising it demands for the $5.6 billion they passed in one of the last acts before the shutdown. and trump is showing increasing flexibility also as to what might qualify as...

>> reporter: good morning. what we heard yesterday emerging from the meeting in the situation room is two very different messages from democratic congressional leaders and from the president. he word democrats say they wanted -- we had word democrats say they wanted to reopen the government while the discussions continue. and the president saying he wanted to keep the government partially shuttered indefinitely. hes inflexible on his demand for border funding even as hes increased flexible about...

Parties, and democratic congressional staff have been invited to meetings at the white house, led by vice president mike pence, homeland security secretary kirstjen neilson and jared kushner expected to attend, and president trump saying hes considered declaring a national emergency to get wall funding if he cant do it legislatively. heres what he said yesterday about that. >> we can call a national emergency because of the security of our country, absolutely. no, we can do it. i havent done it....

Barrier. this morning, the president was reprising his misleading claims about the ideology of these furloughed workers as he called on democrats to make a deal. writing, i dont care that most of the workers not getting paid are democrats. stopping the shutdown as soon as were in agreement on border security. im in the white house ready to go. where are the democrats? the heads of federal employee unions pointed out many of the federal, furloughed federal workers, belong to both parties, and sta...

Seat off a hotly congressional race and when i tweeted that this is another reminder of why this state needs change its rules, i was pleased to receive an retweet from that, he said i introduced it legislatively in 2009. needs happen. amen and i call him in my defense. in the meantime ive already found a lawyer to represent me. so bring it on. now there was a legendary line that end of the 1972 classic movie "the candidate". you remember after bill mccay wins an upset for senator, he asks what...

Politics and manipulation before the midterms? >> well, a couple things. senator graham also lent his voice to the idea this hasnt been tested in what jurisdiction are people under? are they under the country that theyre from or under the u.s. jurisdiction? but look. heres what this real issue is about. and whether or not you can change it this way or whether to you change it legislatively, this is a legitimate conversation to have because birthright citizenship is being abused. there are 700,00...

Could change birthright citizenship that anyone could change it other than through a constitutional amendment is simply false. >> so, mike, as a conservative republican, are you okay with the president saying that he can unilaterally change this, the 14th amendment of the constitution? and do you agree with jeff that this is basically just about politics and manipulation before the mid terms? >> couple things. senator graham also lent his voice to the idea this hasnt been tested in what jurisdic...