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I will be the one to shut it down. im not going to blame you. the last time you shut it down, it didnt work. i will take the mantle. im going to shut it down for border security. >> lately as you have seen, he has been trying to bestow the mantle on democrats. this morning, jeff flake was asked whether he thought the president was still, in fact, responsible. >> any time you stand and say i own the shutdown, then you own it. politics, shutdown 101 tells you, shift the blame if you can. when the ...

Implanted in americans minds. we heard that a california highway patrolman was murdered by an illegal immigrant. president trump is playing the long game with this negotiation. i dont know what he can give or how they can come to the table. democrats -- the base of the democratic party wont let them do anything with president trump at this point. >> newt gingrich and bill clinton who won the war, bill clinton was re-elected in 1996. >> the policy war -- >> many people look back to the shutdown t...

Agreement that changes the trade landscape forever. this is an agreement that first and foremost benefits working people, something of great importance to all three of us here today. >> the president barely a month ago signing a trade deal to replace the other trade deal he blew up. now threatening to blow up that deal and threatening more besides. does it make sense? thats one question. should it be taken seriously as a policy matter? thats another. the white house did tell us early on to consi...

It would have a very serious impact on businesses. it could drive people out of business. these are very serious issues. we have a shutdown in the middle of the holiday season. people arent getting paychecks. these are real ramifications for his decision to go forward and insist on the democrats funding this wall, which lets remember, i bring this up every time im on, his campaign promise was not just to build a wall, it was that mexico was going to pay for it. this temper tantrum is because he ...

Celebrate new years eve. president trump and the white house announced today, pretty defendanti i definitively, hes not going before january 1. that seems to signal the shutdown will last at least that long. the president will not go to the new years eve party he typically hosts at his mar-a-lago resort where we know guests have paid $1,000 per head to party president trump. he is not going to be there this year. he will be here. what happens after that is anyones guess. it seems that the white ...

The shutdown on what he calls obstructionist democrats, we thought it might be useful to speak to a democrat. joining us now is the congressman from arizona. thanks for being with us. i know you said you are against any funding for the wall. you have urged fellow democrats not to negotiate. does that mean you would vote against anything $1 more than the $1.3 billion that is on the table for border security? >> look, the party is not an obstructionist party. we are the party that actually passed ...

>> i think thats a question you have to ask flan nancy pelosi. shes unwilling to do anything until she gets her speakership. shes more willing to protect that than she is to protect our borders and protect american lives. we hope we will see that change. >> reporter: the key question is, will president trump accept less than $5 billion for his border wall? sarah sanders declined to answer that question. i think we are left where we have been all week, which is no answers on the specifics and no ...

Back now. mike, i want to start with you. you say this is a negotiation the president is in the middle of. in this negotiation, does he need to give the democrats something they want? what would that be? >> first of all, i want to go back to the chuck schumer thing that you showed on there. its an important point. jeff flake saying the president owns the shutdown. going back to my example, i worked for newt gingrich. by all accounts, he lost the fight. but he won the war. bill clinton was forced...

Trump wants to lay the blame on everybody else. and today and yesterday, i guess, its blame nancy. when the shutdown came about, because the president basically went back on an understanding that both the u.s. house and the senate had, when the senate voted to keep government running until february in a voice vote, no less. that vote went to the house and suddenly president trump watching fox news and listening to the very loud voices of fox news, got afraid, basically, and said, im not going to...

Own this shutdown and lately, as you have noticed, hes been shifting the blame to democrats. in your view, does president trump still own this shutdown? >> oh, any time that you stand and say, i own the shutdown, then you own it. politics -- you know, shutdown 101 tells you, shift the blame if you can. and when the president immediately said, ill take the blame, then hes got it. so thats why the democrats have felt no need to really come to the negotiating table. so i think that the president, y...