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Way before. the fact is democrats agree with him on everything, it only reason why they wont do it is because its him. its a part -- its a personal vendetta. president trump should talk about the wall and the personal vendetta. clearly the democrats were for this but they dont like me so im going to step out of it. i want somebody else to take charge of this. i will step out of the room. i dont want the credit. i will step out. you get the engineers involved, because you just heard schumer say i...

Medicaid, the military is carved out bombardment, border patrol, hes giving me all these carveouts. under the so-called government shutdown, 75280% is already funded so there little pieces of government that arent and they keep running until they show the trash piling up and so forth, its a shutdown so-called over what? we have a budget thats over $4 trillion. we have annual deficits that are almost $1 trillion. we have almost $22 trillion in federal operating financial debt. we have unfunded li...

Medicaid, the military is carved out bombardment, border patrol, hes giving me all these carveouts. under the so-called government shutdown, 75280% is already funded so there little pieces of government that arent and they keep running until they show the trash piling up and so forth, its a shutdown so-called over what? we have a budget thats over $4 trillion. we have annual deficits that are almost $1 trillion. we have almost $22 trillion in federal operating financial debt. we have unfunded li...

President is playing? >> he has come out and said it is productive or we are closing this and the democrats signal they want this. we heard it from pelosi and schumer made it clear that they want nothing to do with this wall. >> they feel like it would be hard sell to members of their own party who have come to power in the house. there is a ton of energy on the left. how do you explain to them and how do you rationalize well, we are going to cave in this negotiation and give the president what ...

A wall where you need it. the $5.6 billion is for border security, including the wall. right now their number for all border security is $1.3 billion, which is clearly inadequate. thats a status quo number. if all we have is a status question then next year we have the same problems which is not acceptable to the president. >> president trump trying to drum up support for the wall. on friday said that some past u.s. presidents have told him that they should have built a wall along the u.s./mexic...

Heres what mick mulvaney had to say about it to jake tapper. >> i think the president said for a long time that its $5.6 billion for border security, including the wall. we recognize that things like technology and border crossings are important but certainly a barrier is important. we didnt make much progress at the meet chicaing which was surg to me. i thought we came in to talk about terms we could agree on. they were there, in my mind, to stall, and we didnt make much progress. >> the presid...

In mid-december with schumer and pelosi which everybody sort of got locked in their positions, she was -- she had a lot of difficulty inside the democratic caucus, this happened early enough that she was able to solve the problem by saying no money for the wall ever and that sort of locked her in a position and now hard to get her out of it. she had to do that in order to assure that she didnt fight battle with democrats newly elected from trump districts concerned that she would be too liberal ...

Have a fantastic cabinet, really good. reporter: [inaudible] president trump: i think were doing a great job with the shutdown negotiation. we have no choice. look. there will be, excuse me, im totally involved, but im involved because ultimate its going to be solved by the principal. schumer and nancy pelosi and myself can solve this in 20 minutes if they want to. if they dont want to its going to go on for a long time. i will tell you this. if we dont find a solution its going to go on for a l...

Or those slats without congress, if need be. >> this is him quoting you. i just want to check, that the shutdown could go on for months or even a year or longer. did you say that -- >> i did. >> and is that your assessment of where we are? >> absolutely, i said that. i dont think it will, but i am prepared -- >> are you still proud to own this shutdown? >> well, you know, i appreciate the way you say that, but once -- im very proud of doing what im doing. i dont call it a shutdown. so, you can c...

Backing off the demand for border wall funding to end the shutdown. but ever present in every step of the process is trump and his approach to deal making. during the last meeting on wednesday, the "washington post" reported, "vice president pence leveled a sharp accusation at senate minority leader chuck schumer. he never bothered to respond to an offer to reopen the government that pence made days earlier." turning to trump, schumer reminded him that he said this week he wouldnt accept less th...