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Here between congressional leaders and the president. these are -- this is just the beginning of the congress tomorrow with speaker pelosi, theres going to have to be a lot of trust, to get anything done, whether its our infrastructure or possible deal down the road. possibly, this has been on the table before, you can have the wall for the dreamers, that was a deal that pelosi and schumer accepted and changed his mind on. i think theres a lack of urgency, and a lack of desperation that weve see...

Drones, we could have had a deal, but this wall which is so powerfully symbolic to both sides. it is very difficult for him to find an off ramp. and we have people all over the time the, and we just saw chuck schumer going into nancy pelo pelosis office, and not about that quote, but where are we now, and schumer said that we are giving a good offer, and they are trying to separate it from the wall, and see if the president is going to take it nup good faith. the democrats are trying to get an e...

Coming out of the money laundering and structuring and wire fraud and bank fraud regarding those payments. >> i want to bring in jackie spear of california who is a member of the house intel and armed services committee. let me get your reaction to that. frank suggests you move carefully, pick a few priorities. what is your strategy there so that you dont come across as perhaps just the resistance that its purely political? so what are your priorities and how quickly will you move? >> so its goo...

That skipped paycheck. thats when the pressure will build after several weeks of stories about how this is impacting people in washington and around the country who are relying on these paychecks who are seeing their savings get picked away here. start to really feel the pain. >> stick with me for a moment. i want to crossover to capitol hill, bring in my colleague garrett haake and get his perspective on how this is all playing out. the president is bringing in speaker pelosi and leader schumer...

>> nancy pelosi has made it very clear she is just playing politics here. she called trumps promise to physically secure a southern border immoral and she is not budging in terms of funding. >> i have a statement here, a joint statement from pelosi and schumer as well, senator schumer. they say if leader mcconnell and senate republicans refuse to support the first bill then theyre complicit with president trump in continuing the trump shutdown and holding the health and safety of the american pe...

Dean: impasse. pete: i dont know where it ends. democrats will say we are ready to end this shutdown we have spending bills ready to pass. thats fine. this is not the trump shutdown or schumer shutdown. its the border shutdown. if thats what its about border security. somebody has to move. you can propose all the bills you want without wall funding. it doesnt mean its going to go anywhere. rachel: when you poll americans and ask them what do they think about the wall in the numbers arent that gr...

Mitch mcconnell. the democratic plan is two-fold. first, they want to pass six appropriations bill that are bipartisan. they have been negotiated and sitting around, ready to go. that would open the vast majority of the government. it takes all this off the table. then pass a second bill that is short term for the department of homeland security. it includes 1.3 billion dlar$1. border security, not a wall. here is how democrats describe it in a joint statement from pelosi and schumer. if they re...

Help the president follow some rabbit hole down on the border wall that he didnt tell you that he wanted to pass before. this is all a crisis that the president has manufactured, and hes dragging republicans into it, and i think its a sign of what were going to see the next two years. >> matt, why has the president continued to sort of put pressure on the democrats via twitter? why not have him walk out in front of cameras, get photo ops in the oval office to say, look, im waiting here for these...

Im thinking no, this is your first hit. >> she stepped on the bear trap first. >> its coming. what were going to find, its not going to be about who avoids hits, its two survives them. >> who can take a punch and get back in there and counterpunch. a lot of these guys could have glass jaws. a lot of guys havent had a real contest like this. its going to be an interesting process right up to the end. >> the capitol hill candidates, there are a dozen of them. whether its -- what is it claire mccas...

Next to vladimir putin taking his side against the intelligence community? it is endless. >> how about him standing next to governor brown who is coming off sophisticated these days, talking about you have to do more raking. as if hes ever had a rake in his hand. >> thats the comic genius of the trump administration. these things happen every day. think about just recently in the oval office with pelosi and schumer, poor mike pence wishing he could eject from the whole scene. the president talki...