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Additional fund for border security. i believe in border security. i believe most -- our democrats believe in border security, yes. but lets make sure it is tailored to what is needed on the border. look, when you build a physical barrier, people can tunnel under it, they can take a ladder over it, they can use drones to penetrate it. we need to have technology to protect our borders. >> lets talk specifics. right now you guys seem to be willing, the democrats, to go about 1.6 billion which was ...

Actually, a portion of the government of the united states because we have passed with overwhelming democratic votes 75% of the financeding for government and the president signed that bill. we ought not to kid one another. i presume these discussions are going to be serious. i presume when senator schumer says theyre not going to get 60 votes for a wall, theyre not going to get 60 votes for a wall, but i think they will get 60 votes and theyll get democratic votes if we are talking about enhanc...

Week is him trying to check off the campaign promises before the end of the year from syria to afghanistan to this wall. two-thirds of his base are in favor of the wall. i think he is thinking about 2020 here. how can he go back out on the campaign trail and tell his base, you know, actually this wall that i built my whole campaign on, we didnt get it, but well keep trying. so thats really what he is pushing for here. >> wolf, on the same day we are having this important debate, it is hard not t...

Look no further than his announcement this week. >> now weve won. its time to come back. >> reporter: even before that, this was grahams greatest fear. >> the bad news, if we leave this place it will go to shit in a year. if we pull out, if we go to zero, this place will fall apart very, very quickly and hell regret that decision at home. the people that were holding at bay over here want to hit us again at home so i hope people understand that these soldiers you see around and you talk to, they...

Of medieval times. it is sort of a strange concept there, but the president is saying he wont obviously demand at this point a physical wall, that he could go with this steel-slat barrier instead. at the same time, wolf, we should note chief of staff john kelly just ran into our jeremy diamond a few months ago and told him that he believes -- and, of course, this is the outgoing chief of staff, but he has been talking to various officials including those that have been up on capitol hill like th...

Work without getting paid or may be on furlough. we should at least pass a continuinges lu continuing resolution to keep government open and not have this threatened shutdown. i was pleased to see some of the senators that did not favor the wall were able to leverage their vote and we have a process where we should next vote on a resolution. i hope it comes tonight and we dont have a shutdown. >> a lot of people are hoping that but well see. as you know, the president earlier in the week agreed ...

Billion for a wall, included just short of $8 billion in disaster relief. they kicked it over to the senate with full knowledge that because anything that moves forward in the senate needs 60 votes total and the republicans currently control only 51 seats, it could not pass the senate. what the senate did is they started the process of taking up that measure, but the vote on taking up that measure had been open for hours. here is the reason why. behind the scenes there were conversations ongoing...

Turn around and come back home. we were under the impression the president would sign this continuing resolution. why he changed his mind, who knows. theres a lot of rumors that he respond to outside commentators. that may be one reason, i dont know. but it defies logic, and it is certainly something not in the interests of the american people. >> he just tweeted out a picture of what he described as a steel slat fence, a steel slat barrier, he actually called it in his tweet. do you think thats...

Cold to the idea of tabling his demand for a wall in exchange for keeping the government open. but, wolf, that means the president will have to have a shutdown that he will own, as he said he wanted to do ten days ago. in washington it is a chaos christmas as president trump warned he is ready to shut down the government if congress doesnt give him the billions of dollars hes demanding for a wall on the border. >> the chances are probably very good. >> reporter: instead of taking responsibility ...

Democrats in the senate and the house that would get you, the democrats, to compromise on border wall funding? >> look, i think that we have offered numerous times to make more extensive investments in border security. we want border security. were for border security. we dont think the wall works. clearly the mexicans arent going to pay for it, as was the presidents claim, but when you ask me that, yes, i think we could support enhancement to border security, bur we dont think the wall is the a...