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Senate? >> reporter: yeah, right. thats what at least a few white house officials are telling our hallie jackson and kristen welker, that the president might be, underscore might be, open to accepting that $1.6 billion in border wall funding that was already locked in by the senate. but where we stand right now, chuck, is what had republicans nervous some ten days ago when president trump sat there in the oval office across from chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and said hed be proud to shut down t...

>> mr. secretary, i was texting with a marine friend of mine just before the broadcast. your quote about marines dont quit has already been memorialized on the graphic at the bottom of our screen. you are so right. marines dont quit, but this marine, so attuned to the chain of command, resigns when he feels he cant carry out the orders from his commander in chief and only under those circumstances. >> well, he made it very clear in his, in his letter that there are certain things he believes are...

Know, it was part of what the president says. you know, you never get advice from the pentagon that says remove troops, right? no military official says this is the right time. >> we need less. >> thats right. you never hear that from a military commander. give us less troops, sir. is there a kocogent case in you mind, to pull our troops from seer wra and afghanistan? >> our troop footprint is fairly small, and most of the thing theyre doing there are counterterrorism operations or training the ...

Erdogan, his relationship to turkey. all of those things are now happening this week in this courtroom where donald trump was cut loose, michael cohen has trashed everyone who has turned against him and has been a cooperating witness or a rat as we call him continuing to cozy up to mike flynn. i dont know how all these pieces come together, but they suggest that as much as russia is central to whats going on with the mueller probe and can as much as russia may have leverage over donald trump, th...

President said ten days ago that you just played there. you also have the fact that the border wall, which used to be somewhat popular, is no longer popular. >> maybe its because its steel slats now. >> maybe that will help it get out of the artistically designed steel slats. 30% to 35% of people support this. youre shutting down the government for something most people arent even asking for in the first place. and if you look at past shutdowns, the side that is adding what are seen as extraneou...

Constitution and the country. this is a moment where that judgment has to be made, i think. >> mr. secretary, i was taekting with a marine friend of mine just before the broadcast. your quote about marines dont quit has already been memorialized on the graphic at the bottom of our screen. you are so right. marines dont quit, but this marine, so attuned to the chain of command, resigns when he feels he cant carry out the orders from his commander in chief, and only under those circumstances. >> h...

Democrats for the shutdown despite his efforts to shift the blame. additionally, you see a disconnect between the majority of voters and his base. the majority of voters, 60% in that poll said that even though they may support some enhanced border protection, they would not support shutting down the government in order to get that. that is almost flipped with his base, the majority of his base wants to see him shut down the government in order to get some progress towards this core campaign prom...

The public doesnt even hear this anymore. isnt this a useless leverage tactic now? >> i mean, look, it does have impact -- >> it has impact on peoples lives, but nobody gets anything out of it. its not work. >> the big challenge is the president has zero leverage, right? every time you go through something like this and you try to exert leverage and you dont have it, you become weaker and weaker. and i think the odd thing about this whole situation is the president is trying to -- donald trump i...

The question now becomes, hows he going to secure that $5 billion? in a few weeks democrats are going to, of course, have control of the house and the president will have even less leverage to try to get something through. so this is going to be politically very difficult for this president. and look. even though he is doing what a lot of folks in his base want him to do which is to stand firm for border wall funding, the bottom line is, a lot of those same people in his base are asking why he d...

Fundraisers, they put money into his buildings and paid premium prices, that will be in a lot of interest. the trump taj mahal casino was involved in money laundering. >> is there anything less having to do with the mueller information and leverage in foreign countries? why is he so against releasing these numbers. >> lets keep in mind that donald trump had two trials for income tax fraud and in one of those trials his own tax lawyer and accountant testified that