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>> peggy noonan is a wonderful wordsmith and probably right about the wall word. when the president says ill call it a barrier, i dont care what you call it. juan and his friends start saying he backed down and he is not even for a wall. were playing semantic games. >> i dont think its juan and his friends. it is your fellow republicans. officials who say you know what, there is no national emergency here? a lot of national emergencies but the wall and southern border not one of them. so to me i...

He initially considered declaring a national emergency because of the lawsuits and eminent domain issues. you had congressmen in texas along the border saying its a bad idea. the president feels he has no choice. he has been backed into a corner not just by nancy pelosi but by conservatives who want him to build the wall. >> werent there over 30 blue dog democrats who said hey, whether its a wall, barrier, and nancy pelosi is thumbing her nose at her fellow democrats. >> now theyre saying its a ...

>> you are sitting here saying oh, the president is not even negotiating. hang on a second. a week and a half or two weeks ago he said im willing to do something on daca that democrats have been saying for years. why are you laughing? >> because a year ago the republicans and democrats had a deal that included daca and included a wall and president trump and his side said no deal. >> maybe the president was wrong then. were here today, juan. >> dont come back and say every time i shift the goalp...

>> fascinating to watch it play out in the media. theyre using the media to make statements, comment on the wall negotiations, talk about each other. the problem is they arent talking to each other and theyre both undermining the process of good faith negotiations. theyre both coming to a conclusion before the negotiators tasked with working something out are able to get anywhere. the president has changed his tune a few times saying its a wall, call it whatever you want, fencing, now back to a ...

Formally declare that. there is some ambiguity with executive power move around existing funds in the federal government. the bottom line is he now has the real justification, i believe, to do it because nancy pelosi told him a week or so ago -- a week ago today, open up the government and ill negotiate. what happened? they set up this bipartisan conference committee. everybody, come together, the lead democrat said a couple days ago everything is on the table as if a wall or a barrier is on the...

A national emergency as he calls the latest border security talks a waste of time. welcome to a brand-new hour of "americas newsroom" friday morning. im sandra smith. >> jon: im jon scott. bill hemmer has the day off. the next deadline to avoid a government shutdown two weeks away. the president slamming house speaker nancy pelosi for hurting the country as another migrant caravan marches for the border. >> president trump: waiting for this committee. ive told a lot of people i dont expect much ...

Congress, i think the president can make the case that look, the democrats said open up the government and well come to the table. he has made it clear that he is willing to talk about a smart wall, about an intermittent wall, technology, personnel. he has come to the table with proposals. if the democrats dont come to the table with proposals to meet this halfway there is a political price to be paid. >> jon: you have written a piece in the hill that caught our attention about the new new york ...

Re workers, the regular folks their wages are going up faster than the supervisors. i love juan but this is why blue collar voters voted for president trump. you talk about the ultimate promise. you can talk about the wall all you want. i feel like this is the ultimate promise and it is coming true. >> sandra: can the wages be going up faster? most analysts applauding the jobs report saying i wish i would have seen wages. >> thats the federal reserve trying to shut this economy down. again you h...

Midst of the shutdown the president said unless you give me a wall, nothing. talk about someone who wants to play -- decide the super bowl before you play it. it was the president. what has been established here what ed said there will be a negotiation that we have a group together now negotiating over what constitutes an improvement in border security for the united states. the question of the wall is there. what nancy pelosi, who is not a member of the panel and president trump is not a member...

The issue comes down to are you into open and free borders or do you want to protect and preserve the security of this country? i think the president has the right idea in that sense. we do have to look at the concept of the wall. in my view the wall is a euphemism for border security. nothing can be done with regard to immigration policy without making sure our borders are secure. >> sandra: what sort of constitutional showdown do you think the president would face if he did decide to take this...