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Really president trump didnt run on fixed ob the fence. he ran on build the wall. the third deals with ports of entry. there are democrats who want to see an additional billion dollars oh zbl. >> we have seen the word fence being used as well. you mentioned the number. what do you know in terms of where were going to go with this? the $1.3 billion and the $5 billion? >> i think it needs to be a crooked number. anything that starts with a one is not negotiable. i think house conservatives wanted ...

Pelosi again. when they were having this conversation with schumer, pelosi and trump, the conversation was, he was like, i want the wall, and she said you dont have the votes. >> mitch mcconnell, its all about self-preservation. at the end of the day you have about 18 republican senate seats that are up for re-election in 2020. many of the states that are up for re-election are states where democrats did exceptional well and they won in districts that donald trump won. he lost them in 2018. they...

His annual christmas trip to mar-a-lago, trumps incoming acting chief of staff mick mulvaney appeared on fox news this morning to say there is no end in sight. >> the next pay period that is impacted is january 11th. i think that is -- its very possible that the shutdown will go beyond the 28th and into the new congress. >> so let me bring in matt gorman, a former nrcc communications director and former spokesman for jewish and mitt romney. we also have doug thornell. republican lawmakers like s...

American people who believe in border security. what vick got wrong in your last segment is this notion that just because pelosi isnt negotiating that schumer isnt. schumer is negotiating, because there are senate democrats who do want to support border security. ten senate democrats already voted for $25 billion in border security. weve got a chance to peel off some senate democrats before we get nancy pelosi and house democrat. >> while we got you, it is the issue of the number. theres also th...

Shutdown at this point. is there any scenario you think on december 27th that reopens the government before january 3rd? >> well, we offered the president some very specific opportunities. in fact, we just voted on one several days ago. voice vote. unanimous voice vote to move this government forward to the first or second week of february which the president rejected after he heard the right-wing criticism. >> so what did you make of senator mcconnell though recessing? im trying to figure out w...

So unless that happens everything else doesnt mean anything. lets take a step back. its in each sides interest at the moment to dig in and prepare for a longer shutdown. obviously president trump can show his base that hes committed to funding the wall and leader schumer and speaker designate pelosi over in the house can show that theyre willing to fight president trump and really make sure that their basis are riled up as they go into the next congress. thats what matters right now and i think ...

Whether theyre going to get them and for how long. are we anticipating that the president is willing to have the government shutdown well into the start of the next congress which is a democratically controlled house? >> yeah, it is hard to tell. couple of things, fred. first, pelosi and schumer, good cop, bad cop to the president into making that statement, taking ownership of the shutdown. then when we got closer to shutdown deadline, it dawned on the president and republicans that there was s...

That will last, you know, hopefully not even one more day because, again, we have real peoples livelihoods on the line. i agree with alice, if the president could be reasonable here, democrats are all for a very sensible strategic, smart border security investments. that is always what democrats have been for that include physical fencing. it includes a wall that has a virtual wall where you have technology -- >> you saw that in the last measure but the president did not sign off on it. >> right...

Leverage, and theyre saying ball is in your court, mr. president. >> calling it a trump shutdown, thats what got his attention, david, when it was nancy pelosi and schumer at the white house with him and nancy pelosi saying trump shutdown, all of a sudden he was like wait a minute, what did you say, oh, yeah, and ill take it. here we are at this juncture. hours before the shutdown, the president was tweeting out a rendering of what he calls a beautiful barrier. and again, this is the center piec...

Democratic govern andrew cuomo. governor, glad you could be with us. what do you make of the arguments being made by schumer and mitch mcconnell? >> good afternoon, fred, thanks for having me. one of the things thats really outrageous here is how patently obvious and absurd this situation is. republican leader mcconnell trying to disassociate himself from the entire situation just shows their embarrassment. they say the president promised this in the campaign, and he wants to deliver on a campai...