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The government. over funding for the border. fast forward to the middle of this past week, when his aides were signaling that he would be willing to entertain a temporary spending deal that would have kept the government open through february 8, but by thursday, he had summoned house republicans to the white house, and informed them he would be rejecting that temporary deal, that he wanted to stand firm on $5 billion for the wall. sources say the president had become increasingly sensitive to cr...

Radio station in south carolina. and his criticism of then donald trumps border wall did not stop there. >> the fence doesnt solve the problem. is it necessary to have one? sure. would it help? sure. but to say, build the darn fence and have that be the end of the immigration discussion is an surrender and almost childish for someone running for president to take simplistic a view. and by the way, the bottom line is anyone who wants to get to across. >> his current role is at the office of manag...

Have to stand up for policies that they dont necessarily believe in. im sure that you had that experience in in sways. but it is another thing for a lot of these people to be working against positions that were the polar opposite of the one they held before. that to me suggests these are not just people who are ambitious, but people who are doing whatever it takes to serve in the white house, whatever it takes to keep serving donald trump. >> exactly. mulvaney has survived by doing whatever dona...

>> well, it is hard to always cajole the members that have lost their elections and who are retiring. >> theyre still working for us, the people. >> they still cash their paychecks. they should probably still be here to cast their votes even on the eve of their retirement. i think we have to on 18 votes for $5 billion. we funded -- we had wall funding votes in the past and no problems. the senate is where the problem is. the president is right about that. i think we ought to put pressure on the ...

>> $7 for the boy scouts for donald trump jr. >> unbelievable. >> or the $30,000 -- >> wait until we get to the next block. its all about how he used this foundation to pay for everything he wanted. thank you so much. nance, thank you so much. coming up, donald trump railed today on twitter against the decision the senator mentioned to close his namesake charitable foundation after the new york attorney generals office laid out what it called a shocking pattern of illegality. what does this me...

Giving up any leverage they might have to ever get the thing built and there are other issues, too. theres no disaster funding in this cr, which some members want. right now, things are just a mess as a retiring republican congressman just explained to me downstairs. take a listen. >> lets optimistic leaving this meeting than i was coming in. i think theres no consensus right now on what the best way forward is, at least among house republicans. >> did he say if the president supports the cr if ...

Pass the house today. there was a republican caucus, house caucus this morning. we saw mark meadows of the freedom caucus talking about the fact that he would like to see the president veto this because he says theres no better chance of getting funding for the wall in february when this continuing resolution were to expire. >> yeah, and to that end mark meadows is actually right. peter touched on this a little bit. i think the short answer of what happened here is the conservative backlash happ...

Take control of the house. then theres syria. the timing of that troop withdrawal, starting almost all of washington. the president, he says this morning, its no surprise at all. he has been campaigning on this for years. garrett haake is on the hill for us. kristen welker is joining us from the white house. garrett, let me begin with you. fill us in on what the latest is with the shutdown discussion in the house as paul ryan, really, gets ready to take questions on this. >> after the senate pas...

Here. i want to bring in john kirby, a cnn military and diplomatic analyst who is a spokesman for defense and state departments under president obama. and samantha, a former senior adviser to the national security adviser. sam, i know you have spent a hot of time in the region. i want your reaction to the presidents tweet this morning declaring victory and saying isis has been defeated. >> pam, first of all, i would not call this withdrawal, i would call this a surrender. the presidents decision...

Leverage if they kick the can. >> the other thing that is remarkable is the lack of understanding and maybe its a lack of a desire to understand, i dont know, how things get funded in government, period. what we are hearing from sarah sanders, at the end of the day it comes back to taxpayer money. >> i am not sure how they are going to pay for it. the thing here is donald trump has enormous egg on his face, and we heard build the wall and mexico will pay for it. two years into his presidency, th...