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Change in the state departments appropriations bill. >> republican leaders are also clearly quite worried their members will caved when asked to vote on the individual funding bills to limit the white house leverage. >> dana: mike emanuel, thank you. lets bring in bret baier, anchor of "special report" at the white house and also just inside the white house. and i wonder if you can give us a flavor, i dont know what the groundrules were, for your meeting there at the white house, maybe you can g...

House. >> john cornyn of texas said the fight over border security is because democrats and their liberal base despise president trump. >> the never say trump crowd who believe he is an illegitimate president who are bound to do everything they can to resist anything he is for, thats what is at play here. >> house democrats plan to put republicans on the defensive with votes on individual bills which gop leaders fear could lead to some members caving and that would weaken the presidents leverage...

Shutdown, might put pressure on the representatives who might feel pressure to break with the president? >> absolutely. government employees are not just democrats, right? some of these senators, represent states where theyre government employees, constituents, for house members, are government employees. like you pointed out earlier, paychecks for some of these people will not come on friday. thats a really big deal. republicans in the white house are trying to basically move people away from t...

Democrats were for border fencing in the past when it wasnt donald trump in the oval office. theres politics here everywhere. you have got also senators from states that have huge federal employee populations, who are having their workers furloughed, all fired up, saying theres no need for. this house democrats are going to put a variety of funding bills on the floor that has no to do with border security, hoping republican members will say, well, i have to vote for, this im in favor of funding ...

The president says he wants his wall or slatted fence from sea to shining sea, that contradicts what senator cornyn just said. i want to see a full plan. i do want to take some issue with senator cornyn. i think its important that, where we have policy debates, that we not necessarily default to calling one another hypocrites. which he just did. we have supported border security, we will continue to support border secure to, we might just have different ideas of what that looks like. i do want t...

Forward. immigration has to be addressed sooner or later, the immigration problem that we have. its gone on for far too long, democrats and republicans. the president can say im taking this 2013 bill, this major immigration reform bill that was passed in the senate that never got a vote in the house, im going to dust that bill off, were going to look at it and make sure its in the proper context and were going to vote on that bill. that would take care of it. >> what did he say to you? >> he jus...

Announcing to his press secretary hes going to the border wall that he believes thats his leverage or at least thats his next step to get more leverage, so dont look for anything to happen over the next three days, i wouldnt think, because the democrats arent going to raise their hand and say, lets settle this now, mr. president. i guarantee pollingwise with his base he is right in the sweet spot. if he cut a deal now, it would hurt him. is that where the president is, that again, were talking i...

Claiming leverage over china. you look at the numbers. chinese imports from the u.s. have dropped 25% over the last several months. so the trade deficit actually worse. u.s. companies being hit as well. a majority companies polled by the u.s. chamber of commerce in shanghai reported the trade war has hurt their profits. who is winning the trade war right now? >> well, look at "the wall street journal" today. theres a really interesting report about how chinas economy is doing. and they are doing...

People into supporting what they are doing right now in terms of trying to get this wall built and using the shutdown as leverage. i think it fell apart. interestingly, i guess its chris wallace on fox news who really, you know, put sarah sanders in a tough spot having her try to defend this misinformation. the administration is sloppy. they need to get their facts straight. they have an argument but want to get the facts right. >> karen, it was interesting to hear from christopher rudd who head...

I spoke to president xi recently. i really believe they want to make a deal. the tariffs have absolutely hurt china very badly. but our country is taking in a lot of money through tariffs. a lot of money. a lot of tariffs. steel dumping tariffs and others. but i think china wants to get it resolved. their economys not doing well. >> now, a lot of experts would say that the united states is not taking in a lot of money from tariffs at the moment. but that point aside, the president is correct whe...