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We wont say we need border security. what are the democrats going to say? the democrats all agree that we need a wall until i wanted it. >> what will it take for the stalemate to end? joining the is resident fellow in law and politics at the center for immigration studies, andrew arthur, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> what in the world will it take to end the stalemate? >> an excellent question because it is not clear to me what past democrats want to take and they hold...

Agenda. when i was on this show in november shortly after the election we talked about democrats should focus on transportation and healthcare but instead now they are taking over a congress with the government shutdown fighting border security, and intense time in washington dc and they are just looking for more reasons to investigate the president so hopefully they compromise with the president and choose a different path but as of today i dont think -- >> it will be exhausting. lets talk fare...

Leader of the senate. if they thought border security was important then, why isnt it important now? nothing has really changed, it has gotten worse which back then we were concerned about marijuana coming over the border, now we are concerned about apps, fentanyl and methamphetamines coming over the border. so the idea of having barriers in place seems more salient now than it was 12 years ago which was almost an innocent time in border security. right now it is simply politics, simply a democr...

To squeeze concessions out of the president in order to get the wall, it will take until after the beginning of the year and the 116th congress where they control the house of representatives for them to actually put forth concessions they want out of the president which would probably be at least partial amnesty of the 11 billion plus aliens in the united states and other things. >> it sounds like at least in terms of an offer that was made by mike pence over the weekend, $2.5 billion for borde...