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very interesting way. >> bill: during the trump years this was quite common. make a phone call, take you down there, see what you wanted to see. a very different story in the first two months of this administration. >> dana: as the feds restrict media access rob portman let fox news tour the border with him. griff jenkins joined him last night and has been delivering incredible reporting from the border for weeks. lets take a look. >> the residents here in at least the rio grande valle...

Hear from him soon. they argue, yes, this could have an impact on whether or not they want to introduce additional articles of impeachment. but i think thats probably just a semantics argument. what they actually want, they argue, is to get him before the judiciary committee before the senate trial. now, that, of course, the more pressing issue right now. we know there is this impasse between majority leader mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer over the idea of whether or not there should be witnes...

$1.6 billion the second time. now we got to this escalation that we didnt get all we wanted but the house has provide resources over the past three years. >> but there is no secret, now this isnt the ultimate signature issue for the president, i guess it was politically during the campaign but legislatively its no secret that a lot of republicans thought that this notion of a border wall and spending all this money for a border wall was rhetorical for the president during the campaign was folly....

And participate. we havent seen that yet. >> dana: congressman from texas said this yesterday on fox news sunday. >> first of all, were not going to have a wall. can we look at some sort of enhanced barrier? thats something we can look at. but i have to say living on the border, you have to let the local border patrol chief have the say so and let the local community be involved so they can come up with maybe some sort of enhanced barrier. but again, washington cannot dictate what sort of barrie...

You dont normally have an statement that says i intended to impede the election. it is circumstantial evidence of the crime. you are looking at his statements to lester holt, up to what he tweeted yesterday. theyre trying to gather those contextual clears what it is he intended specificationlly. what you dont want to get into is a semantics argument that means when i said should, i didnt mean shall. this gets back to president clinton, it depends on what is is. >> he can do it himself. >> except...

Opportunity to be there with the president. i think its a very reasonable question. >> bill shine recently came onto the white house because this has been happening since january 20th of 2017 when the president was inaugurated. i know because ive been there. the did he have something to do with this? he was the one who called kaillan collins in and said in essence disinvited, use of the word ban which seems to be a semantics argument. if youre not allowed in the rose garden, youre not allowed in...

Is debate internally on whether that trump said shithole or shithouse. per due and cotton seem to have heard latter, this person said, and are using to deny. reports that a source close to the president told gabe that the president was boasting this weekend that it will help him politically. >> yeah. so, lets bring in gabe sherman right now. vanity fair. gabe, this is fascinating. you have people -- you have these two senators i will say at a very -- the kindest interpretation would be that they...

Your buddy joe biden going out there to do his damage control? wow! juliet: with the party second in command, making such a denyive tiff prediction -- denyive tiff direction, does he take a risk? >> if hes wrong it doesnt matter and if he decides to take it the other way hes in big trouble. this is a semantics argument. joe biden does what he had to do and andrea, im impresswood your historical knowledge of campaigns and politics, but when the senate has gone republican and house has not gone re...

The recent budget and so forth, he says we have got to. >> bill: we got to. but he never says how. he appointed panel. are you on that panel by the way? >> am i on the panel? could be. >> bill: he is saying is he going to take responsibility. putting it off to the next president. 2018, 2020. >> bill: when he is 85 he will take responsibility. i know mary katharine you are straining at the bit to get into here. >> as far as socialist goes. i prefer the term creepy status. isstate us kind of guy. ...

The recent budget and so forth, he says we have got to. >> bill: we got to. but he never says how. he appointed panel. are you on that panel by the way? >> am i on the panel? could be. >> bill: he is saying is he going to take responsibility. putting it off to the next president. 2018, 2020. >> bill: when he is 85 he will take responsibility. i know mary katharine you are straining at the bit to get into here. >> as far as socialist goes. i prefer the term creepy status. isstate us kind of guy. ...