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Fine with lifting the sanctions but a lot of the members of the house and senate are clearly not fine with it right now. guys, thanks very much. great reporting. both of you. now to the shutdown standoff. the president is lashing out at democrats as theyre rejecting his new immigration proposal as a nonstarter. the impact of the longest government shutdown in u.s. history is clearly evident and escalating. even on this federal holiday. lets go to our white house correspondent kaitlan collins. ...

Will the presidents words be enough to end the partial government shutdown? garrett tenney on the north lawn of the white house which has a lot of activity on this saturday. hi, garrett. >> good to be with you. at this point the white house is playing this close to the vest. not a lot of details about what the announcement will be. we know about the shutdown standoff over border security, but other than that not a whole lot else at this point. this morning, the president was pretty tight-lipped ...

Republicans, to vote on the bills they keep bringing to the floor to reopen the government, as you mentioned, theyre going to add hundreds of millions of dollars more in border security funding. so specifically, $524 million, for, to repair ports of entry, along the border, and another $563 million, to hire more immigration judges. this is what a democratic aide tells me. as you mentioned, none of that money will be allocated toward the construction of a border fence, or a border wall. that woul...

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June for the question to be finalized. a new paul shows donald trumps support skyrocketing of latino voters amid the shutdown standoff, the presidents approval rating soaring to 50% since december according to this pbs and pr paul, 19% jump in just one month. that baffles a lot of people. republican strategist john thomas joined us whispering what caused this increase. >> it was announced that latino unemployment is at an all-time low. the president is breaking, penetrating to americans particul...

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Just really depends on what line of work you are in. you have the ability to choose what line of work you want to go into. >> i think thats totally fair. and there are a lot of jobs in new york city where you are expected to work around the clock and very little pay. i think if you are expected to constantly be at work even when you are at home, have you got to compensate people for that. steve: stipulation was the employee had to complain about it thats when they would get fined. >> exactly. ai...

>> and you only have two years. >> less than that. actual less than that. the congress doesnt meet but so many days in a year. all im saying is we have to hit the ground not running but flying. >> flying. that was a newly empowered elijah cummings, now chairman of the house oversight committee, foreshadowing a new era in washington now that the power dynamic has officially changed. our friend peter baker writes in "the new york times," prepare yourself for constant, all-out political war fair. q...

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Shutdown standoff. phil mattingly is on capitol hill. phil, republican compromise proposal appears now dead. you have new information. what are you learning? >> the lead senator behind that compromise with that now having imploded is calling on the president to invoke emergency powers. he says, lindsey graham, that its time for president trump to use emergency powers to fund construction of a border wall. the reason that -- those deals or that negotiation fell apart was according to two individu...