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Trump is a con man being played by a con man. you know, kim jong-un understood that trumps ego was the path to success, and so he played him like a rube for two years. they have continued everything they wanted to do regardless in their nuclear program, and their icbm program. donald trump has been bought off by a couple of fancy letters with wax seals and ribbons on them. and so if i were schumer, i would have looked at it and laughed and said, you know, get a grip, pal. >> all right. thank you...

With your assessment of the impact of illegal immigration on wages. you want to kick it off another week in terms of funding. why not address it head on? why not do what democrats have said for years and years, president obama and schumer said you want to secure the border. why is this such a difficult task. i dont think its a difficult tank. the president wants a fight and wants the government shutdown. we propose fund the 6 departments. no dispute about that. a bipartisan bill passed unanimous...

Position and many democrats including schumer and nancy pelosi and obama signed the secure fencing act of 2006 which calls for a 700 mile barrier fence, wall, whatever you want to call it. i find this disheartening because there is no goodwill on the part of the democrats to actually resolve this issue. it is not just an important problem for america. it is a real problem. yesterday donald trump called on senior people who work for border patrol to come to the press conference and talk about sec...

Hard over the weekend and well see if we can do something. so you can call it whatever you want. you can call it the schumer or the pelosi or the trump shut down. doesnt make any difference to me. just words. >> mr. president, my second question sir on federal workers. >> go ahead. just one second. please. >> may be the same question. thank you, mr. president. two questions. just to follow up on daca. are you open to a path to citizenship in theory nor daca recipients and can you explain to fede...

They come together and pass something the taxpayers dont understand calling a continuing resolution. kick the can down the road. this one, though, as you point out, is particularly fraught. and lets think about the atmospherics, maybe even the optics tomorrow in the oval office. president is used to mcconnell and ryan, and hes used to having two members of the home team in charge. >> right. >> hes got schumer and pelosi tomorrow, kelsey, its just going to add something new to the mix. >> yeah, a...

Government is still closed. their position is lets reopen the government and then talk about border security if that is the way you want to go. here is how the two democratic leaders described that, for of the conversation when they came out of this meeting with the president. >> we have agreed to continue the conversations, but we all -- we recognize on the democratic side that we really cannot resolve this until we open up government. and we made that very clear to the president. >> the bottom...

House talking point for the last week and a half or so is that nancy pelosi cant strike a deal, because she needs the votes to be speaker first. and since nancy pelosi got the votes to be speaker, she has not changed the tune. she has continued to say there is no money for the border wall, and does the white house come to theizati the realization that there is not a break between pelosi and schumer and come to the bargaining table with something else? >> just today, preparing to the t town hall ...

From the white house point of view, there is a view that the president is using some of the tools here by trying to have congressional leaders come to him, to use the situation room to create an urgency and to say that by sending that note again arguing his case we dont see any give yet publicly from the white house side and, frankly, not from leader -- speaker pelosi now and leader schumer yet in terms of what they would be willing to do on dealing. lindsey graham told us over the weekend here ...

White house reporter, kelly odonnell. "new york times" reporter, nick. also, correspondent jacob soboroff. garrett, two very conflicting descriptions of those meetings there. again, well go back to the president if he starts taking questions. he is calling it hopeful. mcconnell calls it hopeful. pelosi and schumer, not so much. >> reporter: no. pelosi and schumer saying they think the shutdown -- or they got the sense from the president that hed like the shutdown to go on longer, or be willing t...

And sometimes contentious conversation with the president. >> we discussed a bunch of issues as the leader said that were somewhat contentious. >> i thought that it was a very, very good meeting. were all on the same path in terms of wanting to get government open. it was an easy meeting or even a kind meeting or a nice meeting, but in the end, i think weve come a long way. well be working very hard over the weekend and well see if we can do something. so you can call it whatever you want. you c...