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Voted for border security all the time. when we did the bipartisan bill in 2013 it had 40 plus billion dollars of border security and last february when we went to the president with the deal, dreamers and border security, we good 46 out of 49 democrats to vote for $25 billion in border security over ten years. now, lets be specific. we want to spend it the right way, not the wrong way. stopping fentanyl and heroin, a wall wont do it but investments in the ports of entry and giving the mail serv...

Leader schumer? >> thank you, speaker pelosi. my fellow americans, we address you tonight for one reason only, the president of the united states, having failed to get mexico to pay for his ineffective, unnecessary border wall, and unable to convince the congress or the american people to foot the bill, has shut down the government. american democracy doesnt work that way. we dont govern by temper tantrum. no president should pound the table and demand he gets his way or else the government shut...

Netanyahu says it works. everything is settled between israel and the palestinians. >> its great. >> that was a pretty extraordinary comparison. but the bottom line is that what were hearing today is no give on either side. democrats still think they have leverage, nobody is willing to negotiate. and here the president is about to take some questions so lets listen to what he has to say and well come back. >> what do you say to those federal workers, security guards, secret service agent, tsa ai...

Position on the armed services positions on both. we did a significant plus-up of the military to deal with new threats in china and deal with threats in russia and cyber, the motion of all of a sudden well take that money and spend it, the presidents own team says a wall isnt the right answer. investments in border security, fencing, drones, more border agents, underground sensors to detect motion. there are things you should do but the wall is not the right answer. lets just spend -- i think t...

Hawk stumbled their way out. which of those dwo do you think it is? >> its more of the latter. look, the president believes immigration is always a winner for him, period. if you bring him a poll, hell say yeah, they told me the wall was unpopular and i won anyway. he believes theres a silent majority with him on the wall. he believes its democrats who dont understand the importance of the immigration issue and he really does believe if he can make his case that it will be the democrats who get ...

Clear to the president. >> ron, i want to read for you a quote from the presidents own book the "art of the deal." the worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it. that makes the other guy smell blood and then youre dead. the best thing you can do is deal from strength and leverage. that is the biggest strength you can have. help me understand, where is his leverage point right now? >> i dont think he has much. the one is to declare a national emergency which could be ...

Funding bills, sign off on the other funding bills that can easily sail through congress and separate out the homeland security bill and border funding. let me play what he said. >> why must there be a partial government shutdown affecting agencies that have nothing to do with the debate? >> really for two reasons. these were the bills that were remaining at the end of the year. >> that is right. from mike pence and sarah sanders, they are not answering the question. >> it is all about leverage....

Mia, you just left congress and will republican republicans and your former colleagues in congress getting antsy about the border shutdown? >> well, i believe they were antsy at the very first meeting with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi when the president said that if you dont give me a border, i will have a shutdown. and everybody was saying, whoa, the legislative power is with congress and so who who is going to to own the shutdown? is it really the republicans. he gave away a lot of leverage ...

Forward. i want to get your thoughts on the border wall controversy because from a legal perspective, we talked to judge napolitano but does the president have a right when it comes to the border? >> trey: the president has legal rights when it comes to national emergencies. actually, i dont think that is the route he will go. i think he is looking for a willing negotiating partner and martha come with the folks across from the table think i should be disbanded and border troll gases with intent...

On show boats. >> those are agencies that have nothing to do with border security. that puts house republicans in an awkward spot. voting to keep those agencies closed or reducing the whites leverage. >> bret: the presidents opponents are putting demands on televisions covering the presidents address. bret hume joins us. >> this ought to be easy. there are things that the democrats want, like relief for the dreamers. aliens who came here as children and their status is in limbo. that ought to be...