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To be a long shutdown. capitol hill has been a ghost town with both sides digging in with the new congress, most lawmakers headed home to work out a deal but so far democratic leaders are refusing to negotiate with the white house. nancy pelosis office released a statement saying democrats offered 3 options to open government and strong, sensible border security but not the presidents in moral, expensive wall. democrats will elect a new speaker once they take control wednesday. republicans claim...

And the things that jeh was talking about. let me add one more thing. im from border security. i didnt meet a democrat us served in congress for nine terms who was against border security. who would be against it? im for sensible border security and not just on the southern border. more terrorists have tried to come into the u.s. from the northern border. >> you served in the cabinet as secretary of homeland security. we just had had one of those rare things in washington, which was the resident...

I think the democrats want security, too. we started off with saying we want security also. everybody wants security. and then we can go to comprehensive later on and maybe that is a longer subject. a bigger subject. i think we can get that done too at a later date. >> mr. president, im the senator from highway highway and only immigrants serving in the u.s. senate, i would like to get to immigration reform, but what im hearing around the table right now is a commitment to resolving the daca sit...

Border security. >> jeff? >> let me just echo here. those of us who said comprehensive reform, that was seven months of every night negotiating staff on weekends. a lot of things we are talking about on border security and the interior things have trade offs. we made those during that process. i dont see how we get there before march 5th. >> thats why we are making a phase two. we do a phase one which is daca and security and phase two which is comprehensive immigration. we should go right to it...

The president sending conflicting signals whether he wants them to stay or wants boerdser security as part of the deal. its unclear whether or not a wall, building a wall along the u.s.-mexico border would be part of the initial arrangement or save it for comprehensive reform which the president said he wants down the road. im wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our viewers from around the world. lets go to jim acosta. you listened closely and i have to give the president a lot of cre...

Separately. sensible border security. listen to the folks that are from the border. >> you have to hear one voice. you have to come up with a solution. if you do, i will sign it. we have a lot of smart people in this room. really smart people with big hearts and they want to get it done. i can think of one or two i dont particularly like, but thats okay. i think everybody. everybody wants it. everybody wants a solution. you want it, henry. i think we have a great group of people to sit down and ...

Whatever. the chain migration is the fundamental flaw in the united states. if any conversation about daca is being held without that security, i believe border secure as well, but its not going to go into the senate f. we decide one side against the other, thats not going to happen. >> chain migration has taken a big. people have seen whats happening. for instance the man on the west side highway that killed the people and so badly wounded. its incredible when they talk about wounded they dont ...

>> thank you. >> thank you. >> we need the wall. its wonderful. i would love not to build the wall, but we need the wall. i will tell you this. the ice officers and the border patrol agents, i had them recently. they said if you dont have the wall in certain areas that arent protected by nature, if you dont have the wall, you cant have security. it doesnt work. part of the problem is walls and fences that we currently have are in bad shape. they are broken. we have to get them fixed or rebuilt. ...

Security doesnt work. we are all wasting time. that doesnt mean 2,000 miles of wall. we dont need that because of nature. mountains and rivers and other things. we need that and if you dont have it, you can never have security and never stop that portion of drugs that comes through that area. yes, it comes through planes and lots of other ways, but a lot of it comes through the southern border. you can never fix the situation without additional wall and we have to fix the existing wall. >> there...

Whether he does or whether he forward and we will do that. doesnt. he said it. it will address daca in a that was a temporary stop. permanent way, not a temporary i dont think we want that. we want a permanent solution to short-term thing. we are going to address the this and everybody in this room feels that way very strongly. >> what happened, mr. president border enforcement and security is that i think the senate and the wall. we are going to address passed a comprehensive immigration bill a...