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Negotiate, rick. they want to run the clock out. if congress -- if we dont arrive at a solution to this by january 3rd, the democrat majority will replace republican majority and the leverage that the republicans had b by passing a unified bill through the house getting it to the senate will have erased and democrats will have a hand in stopping the wall. you notice, the democrats understand the wall itself is not that popular. polls roughly in the high 30s. border security is very important. yo...

Shutdown as leverage at a last minute, he knows, if he doesnt get border wall funding now it will not certainly happen when there is democratic house because they cant negotiate with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer at this point in time to get $5 billion of fencing which they voted for before. chris: the bad news. we have to end this panel. good news well probably be talking about the shut down next sunday. see you next sunday. have a merry christmas. all of you. outgoing ohio republican govern...

Ployy. the midterms are over. caravan still an issue. carchaos is taking place. there is no election. and video shows it. what im just wondering is, there is a miscellaneous portion of the budget. is there a so-called -- what democrats call a slush fund. there might be other money out there, $400 million that might go on top of the 1.6 that could give the president close to 2. and if he can get 2 billion up from 1.3 billion. that could be considered a win. if he keeps -- if the democrats want to...

Leverage, the president is trying to work this through. they need to come to agreement and it is that simple. rob: democrats have had two positions on immigration, one is securing the border, that has been the far left wing and moderates like schumer and others say they want border security and are willing to spend money on it, not $5 billion on a wobbly couple billion it looks like. we spent so much money trying to secure the border for many years, they say wall doesnt work, what do they think ...

Cr. well fund this until february 8th. mike pence the vice president told republican senators that. you have john cornyn, the number two republican senator, says he will sign the cr. he took this huge deluge of criticism from rush limbaugh and other talk radio hosts and also from the house freedom caucus. that move, was that basically about im going to shore up the my core base here? >> well, i dont think it is only that democrats were saying they were getting a lot out of president in this deal...

Combination. anybody you talk to outside of washington tells you and you guys have been to the border, too, tells the border is effective. go to israel the border is effective. have you set up a barrier, it is effective. griff: just to add to that your point, the border patrol officials, and i have been down there a lot this year say we need three things, infrastructure, technology and ma manpower. what you see in the shutdown is democrats denying the border patrol. brian: symbolism. griff: need...

Tank. we are the centrist wing of the democratic party. nancy pelosi has the speakership nailed down. there is no doubt about it at all. democrats arent going to spend $5 billion on a bumper sticker that president trump promised that mexico is going to pay for. he is orchestrating this. this is not about nancy pelosis weakness but about her strength. chuck schumer has strength, as well. the senate already voted on this so the leverage is all on the side of democrats and frankly pragmatic thinkin...

Because that is when the senate returns. there is no mechanism between now and then to get the government reopened. so until democrats and the trump white house can agree on both a dollar figure and on what kind of barrier if any to be built along the southern border, until theres an agreement on that, were stuck at an impasse. now, were told by the white house chief of staff that the president is being to come down on his $5 billion demand to construct some sort of barrier, whether its a concre...

Trumps reelection campaign has leapt quickly at the chance to capitalize on the stalemate and paint him as an authentic promise keeper. for the president the border wall is about more than a structure, allies concede. the wall is important but its more the underlying antiimmigrant message thats the key. you agree, ron, that this is all about politics and not policy for the president? >> yeah. a couple things here. i think that the democrats feel as though they have all the leverage here. and par...

>> we are walking away, were losing all of our leverage in what the syrian outcome may be. were empowering enemies right on the border of israel. they found tunnels going right from lebanon into israel. were walking away from the partnerships that turned a success and what has been widely reported and shocking to some of us is president trumps tweet about brett mcgur. his anti-isis. president trump says he doesnt know the guy. this is the person that every one says is a phenomenal guy who achiev...