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The senate for an expensive taxpayer-funded border wall. abandon your shutdown strategy. you are not getting the wall today. next week. or on january 3rd when democrats take control of the house. >> president trump dispatched vice presidents piece pence to meet with schumer to hammer out a de. >> totally up to the democrats whether or not we have a shutdown. >> president trump did a 180 on the blame game, tweeting this morning that the democrats not on the shutdown to which senator chuck >> are ...

He told the president he did not care about the wall. the per republicans have been in control for two years. why havent they passed -- >> tucker: you dont need to ask me that. >> they like to tell the viewers and the voters they are for. >> tucker: i think paul ryan would like to leverage the enthusiasm and the donations of ordinary republicans to win, and then subvert their will on behalf of his donors paired speaker youre being honest. >> tucker: i dont work for anybody. >> lets talk about go...

75% of the $4 trillion is already funded. its automatic spending, no matter what congress does, it is passed. 75% of the remaining 25% is already past. to the v.a., the troops, health and human services, those are usually the pinch points that get the members of congress to say, we dont want to shut that down, we dont want to leave the troops out there but that is already funded. so they got rid of the pinch points now we are coming down to homeland security, and the need to secure the border, a...

Schumer shut down. a few years ago chuck schumer voted for a border wall. hes going to have a hard time reconciling that. hes making it personal. he have doesnt want donald trump to get money for the wall because he doesnt want donald trump to get a win. the american people see donald trump fighting for them to secure the border. its about border security. its been about this throughout his campaign. he won on this issue as one of the front and the center issues. hes actually doing it. if khgs w...

Southern border. it is automatic programmatic spending and already passed. 75% of the remaining 25%, the va, the troops, health and human services. those are usually the pins points to say we dont want to shut that down, we dont want to leave our troops out there but that is already funded too. now we are coming down to homeland security and the need to secure the border and i think donald trump will have that site, it is how he got elected, it is the right public policy, it is what america want...

Coulters and others say the big, beautiful wall was not going to be filled, and you have not kept a major campaign promise, mr. president. he responded to that political pressure from the base for fear the base would somehow abandon him if he did that. it is interesting because much of the rest of the republican party, not necessarily the base, has been very clear, we dont have the votes. remember, when he had session with pelosi and schumer in the oval office, pelosi dared him -- go ahead, if y...

Schumer and pelosi, and one from mcconnell, and that trump ought to take one of them. do we think that means senate democrats might be open to that mcconnell pitch that included an extra billion dollars for border security? >> i dont know. that caught my eye, too. i dont know if thats actually in reference to the clean cr that they passed the other night, that mcconnell brought to the floor and it passed be i a voice vote. its possible thats what hes referring to. again, thats not the presidents...

Plotting and communicating. these are not overseas wars. experience since 9/11 has shown that these terror groups are quite capable. >> barbara, hold on for a moment. pelosi and schumer are speaking right now. lets go there. >> and i dont know what the answer to the question is. the president of the united states prefers to shut government down. and will resist any opportunity to keep government open. again, we are completely ready as we have been for awhile with bipartisan legislation to pass t...

Then he can kind of say maybe democrats, they just wouldnt give it to me, but hes still going have to deal with the fact why dont you have a wall after two years of republicans controlling the house, the senate and you in the white house? >> so, you know, this reminds me of obama with closing gitmo. he wanted to do it. he truly wanted to do it. he made a promise, and then he couldnt do it because congress wouldnt let him. >> i dont disagree. thats a spot-on analysis. the president wants to do it...

Some have speculated that the president was going to demand that he started building the wall which he knows he cant do by law and maybe thats one of the reasons he stepped down. >> reporter: do you think theres any reasonable prospect that a shutdown could override his veto? >> you would have to ask our republican friends. >> the worse he gets, the more they rally around him. this just to refer back to what leader schumer said about the voice of stability in this administration and the people w...