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Deterrent, that is only one aspect of the full border security situation. >> which gets you to the question so it looks like, okay, heres several billion, maybe in excess of the $5.7 billion, with some specifics, ports of entry, drug screening and other new technologies and barrier, fencing and the language worded in a way that everybody can say i win. is that enough for the president? or do we end up having a national emergency or some other executive action to say never mind, im going to find ...

President trump perhaps complicating matters with a morning tweet, reading if the group, quote, is not discussing or contemplating a physical wall or barrier, theyre wasting their time. garrett, what do we know about the meeting thats set to happen here in two hours? >> reporter: the meeting will be about laying down markers. the meeting will be held mostly in private. well see where the two parties stands as this going, especially as the democrats stand. theres been a lot of efforts to exert pr...

Why is he so certain there would be an acquittal for him? >> well, i wouldnt -- he may be saying that. i dont know that thats necessarily what he believes deep down. you know, when you look at this indictment on paper, if mueller has, and presumably he does, have the evidence to back it up, this is about as simple and straightforward an indictment as you could bring. very heavily grounded in documents, in primary sources. you actually wouldnt need a lot of corroborating testimony from other sour...

Play is one that his own administration doesnt want him to. >> well talk about the national emergency powers in a minute to be clear, donald trump is in a weak negotiating position now. he did just give up the entire point of the 35-day shutdown by signing a bill that doesnt have wall funding so thats clear. his antagonist in this, nancy pelosi, the house speaker, i dont know how she could be more clear. even journalists dont seem to get it yet here she is sparring on the point of whether or not...

Means theres a deal right now to end the shutdown, but for the first time we saw a shift in those political stances and it came from the president. if you also take that and listen to what benny thompson or jim cliburn today was saying about this notion of $5 billion or plus in border security, not appropriations for the border wall, that the president wants, to me, to my ears as much as nancy pelosi didnt want to talk about that because sheen doesnt want to talk about anything until the governm...

>> melissa: republicans have had a chance, too, to go in and have total immigration reform like right after the election. they let that go, as well. i think may become a dig in, thats the presidents point. when he puts all these things out here, everybody -- there is a ton of blame to go around. lets all sit down and you can make a deal where everybody get something they want and something they hate. you have to give more to get more. >> dagen: right. he laid out an initial negotiating position,...

Screwed up right now. if we can find a way to reopen while compelling basically an answer to this, im all for it. but what i worry about is -- and i want the government reopened. i voted to reopen the government multiple times. what i worry about is this takes the pressure off and then democrats say, oh, yeah, were back to our negotiating position of absolutely no wall for the president. and when you only have one-third, in essence, of government, half of the legislature and not the presidency, ...

Learn from it, to tell congress about it, to tell the american people about it. >> when im sitting there, i have to meet with an insurance guy, i have a witness. the idea do you it with your biggest adversary. any sensitive thing you would always have someone there because you wouldnt want -- >> mike, does it make sense to you that the president would have done that? >> no. i dont know why he would do that. i do know that -- >> the counter argument is the concern about leaks. >> leaks and here i...

Side in this process needs a win right now. south koreas moon jae-in tonight is seen as hell bebnt t push a peace deal. moon is suffering at home. sees a denuclearization deal as key to his political survival and is seen as making moves that might go against the interests of the united states, which he partially depends on for his countrys security. >> moon is trying to mediate between the two. he is mostly adopting kim jong-uns negotiating position, which is the united states should give sancti...

Against him. the country is against him. the democrats are unified against him and his party is starting to turn against him slowly but inevitability. he knew the speech wasnt going to accomplish anything. so today everything that unfolded i think, again, trump rarely clear, rarely lucid, but i think he saw back as far as yesterday afternoon that he was going to be in this situation where he was going to give a speech that was going to have no effect whatsoever and he was going to have to spend ...