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If this of right wing brendan shutdown or did the president say its do or die. >> the president campaigned on this. the president said he was going to fight for this wall. it really comes down to taking 60 votes in the senate. the president is doing what he promised getting tax reform. the president is a fighter. i know you like that paul has been fighting for the wall as well. maybe not at the right times, but here we are in this fight and blood taste change this wee remember when nancy pelosi ...

The president is committed to it. his team is working hard to night trying to get members to understand how critical this is and actually deliver for our country. >> congressman meadows, critics would say, well, wait a minute, republicans have had control of the house and senate for two years and the white house for the better part of two years, and yet you have failed to undertake comprehensive immigration reform that would include a border wall. so doesnt the gop leadership, mcconnell and paul...

Of the government, is schumer. >> the house freedom caucus is credited with helping talk president trump into threatening a veto on anything without border wall money. its a leader, mark meadows, is staying firm that the $1.6 billion for the border wall that has been floated as a way to get a deal is too much less then a $5 billion down payment approved last night by the house. dozens of lawmakers already headed to airport or highways so they can go home to continue holiday celebrations, and the...

>> i know that senator schumer put forward a number the other day, you have to remember just three days ago senate republicans and senate democrats unanimously cast a clean continuing resolution so we could further discuss this issue of enhanced border security in february. right now i think the two sides should come together, choose a number and move forward. >> shannon: congresswoman pelosi said you couldnt pass this bill and thats why the senate voted the way they did. youre not going to have...

Three days ago senate republicans and senate democrats unanimously cast a clean continuing resolution so we could further discuss this issue of enhanced border security in february. right now i think the two sides should come together, choose a number and move forward. >> shannon: congresswoman pelosi said you couldnt pass this bill and thats why the senate voted the way they did. youre not going to have any leverage at least on the house side so where do you go tonight? >> the reality is we are...

Said, it was reaffirmed later in the day when his spokesman offered this statement after the meeting between vice president pence and schumer. the spokesman said and i quote the vice president came in for a discussion and made an offer. unfortunately, were still very far apart. still determined to keep their promise to build a border wall, the trump team announced late today the creation of an official build the wall membership campaign. it asks for individual donations to help fund a wall. that...

Is this a fox news, talk radio pundit shutdown or did the president say do or die here? >> the president campaigned on this and said he was going to fight for this all along. and it comes down to 60 votes in the senate. but the president is doing what he promised just like on everything else from getting tax reform and others. this president is a fighter. but paul has been fighting for the wall as well. but here we are, were in this fight and what changed this week, remember when nancy pelosi wa...

Kushner. meeting with and negotiating against chuck schumer and soon to be speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. who we are told may be out of town today. but when the senate did gaveled in at noon today mitch mcconnell reminded his democratic colleagues that 12 years ago, they loved, also loved border wall funding. 26 senate democrats. including obama, clinton and schumer. they voted for a bill that provided hundreds of miles of physical barriers on the southern border. and they did so again much...

Shutdown? >> well, indeed, in just an hours when it shuts down, the only person standing between really getting a deal and not getting a deal is chuck schumer. but i can tell you, you mentioned peter ducey was talking about the vice president. its his entire team that has been working on capitol hill all day. the vice president, mick mulvaney, jared kushner. the president has been on the phone throughout the night. his desire is to not shut it down, but its also to deliver to the american people...

Squeeze major concessions out of the republican majority. >> his wall does not have 60 votes here in the senate. let alone 50 votes. that much is clear. >> there were 47 votes in favor. 47 votes against. advancing to the border wall bill. so vice president pence had a break a tie. he has been here for hours with jared kushner and the incoming chief of staff mick mulvaney meeting behind closed doors with leaders including schumer. some lawmakers told us there some discussion about agreeing to les...