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The other options including an emergency declaration may be unconstitutional. the president seems to be conditioning supporters to believe the wall is inevitable even though there is a more appropriate word if he runs congress. that would be illegal. handle capitol hill reporter michael steel and former adviser to jeb bush and speaker john boehner. former adviser to the d, this c and managing director. he too spent time in the leadership wars on the democratic side. in many cases having dug in, ...

Point will it ever matter if he is not telling the truth to his base. take a listen to what he said about the wall. >> they said that progress is being bhemade with this committ. just so you know, we are building the wall anyway. now, you really mean finish the wall. we built a lot of it. its finish the wall. >> its not -- >> hes a conman. his reality distortion field has not broken yet. >> people listen to him and love him. the field is fully in place. black is white, up is down. >> this is wha...

We have two veteran legislators in charge of the house and the senate. nancy pelosi and mitch mcconnell who understand the way the institutions work and they can work together get things done. >> i have to pause there. if mcconnell and pelosi were running things, would we have a functional congress? >> much more functional, yeah. they understand the need to compromise. she said not a dollar for the wall. i said the same thing. nothing for the wall. those are starting positions in the bargaining....

Hes taken a, quote, tremendous amount of abuse. he commented his appearance, his performance before the judiciary committee. >> we can see the applause right there. the president having just praised matt whitaker for his performance. lets listen to the questions. >> reporter: have you seen the border deal? >> im not happy about it. its not doing the trick. im adding things to it. when you add whatever i have to add, it will all happen, we will build a beautiful, big, strong wall thats not going ...

Going on. he set up a situation where this is on the issue on which he will be judged on, period. whey heard in his comments is setting out the potential for an either or. does he accept this deal or declare a national emergency? he sounds like we will say okay, fine. we will take this and i will finish the job doing this. at the same time as is often the case, his rhetoric doesnt match what he is saying he wants to do. we have seen him switch from finish the wall and build the wall and he is us...

Possible. so trump doesnt have a chance to screw it up and the far right and others dont try to disrupt it. >> dont tell the president there is no wall so we dont have to shut down the government again. the president has no wall, but look, obviously -- >> if you dont put that information in his face, you get away with it. >> he will accept this deal, blast congressional republicans for not getting the job done and blast democrats for failing to secure the border and try to reprogram money to bui...

Deexceptideception. the president seems to be pretending to fulfill his promise by pretending to build his wall. this is the scene in el paso, texas. when the crowds chanted build the wall, he attempted to correct them. finish the wall. as the giant banners told them to say. as negotiators reached a deal to prevent another shut down this friday, a deal that funds just 55 miles of new fencing, whatever you want to call it. the president responded with a long and winding rant suggesting the deal i...

We are building a wall. am i happy at first glance? i just got to see it. the answer is no, im not. im not happy. but am i happy with where we are going? im thrilled. we are supplementing things and moving things around and we are doing things that are fantastic and taking from far less important areas. the bottom line is we are building a lot of wall right now. >> the bottom line is on the wall, we are building the wall and using other methods other than this and in addition this. we have a lot...

Negotiators agreed to something similar months ago. so the president did not get anywhere close to his $5.7 billion for the wall. what that translates to is members cautiously optimistic that they will be able to pass this. the wild card is the president. you see senate republicans giving themselves room, some distance saying we are going to wait until we see the text of the legislation before we can come out. you dont know what the president is going to say. >> lets attempt to read presidential...

>> democrats. $1.4 billion for a barrier that was considerably less than what the president asked for. there was humanitarian assistance and restrictions on fencing in general. its not a perfect bill. >> democrats gave -- my point is, the democrats got closer to the president. the president didnt get closer to democrats. >> no. this was a good offer. >> he is saying thank you and im going around you. why did democrats even bother? >> they did get something out of this. the president was asking f...