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Measures to give wiggle room. the fact that the president is once again renewing the fight over the wall when he got nothing out of a 35-day shutdown and nothing out of a deal passed by congress and instead resorted to a national emergency, i think it is more of a statement of the white houses priorities and the sense that they will be willing to take on this fight one more time perhaps because the 2020 election is looming, but ultimately because congress passes appropriations bills the question...

Tool to keep that, his coalition together. you talk about immigration and the wall and impeachment. he talks about impeachment more than democrats talk about impeachment. >> by tenfold. >> right. and i think he uses it to light a fire under the base, bring everyone back in the fold, and because i think those are the two things that animate his supporters. defending him and then also the wa wall, and hes obviously failed getting funding on the wall. >> whos in charge of getting his base, the base...

Time. the white house has backed off of doing a concrete solid wall, which i dont think it would be useful and the border patrol folks said is the wrong way to do the design. there is a difference. in san diego where they changed the fencing from the old style to the new style, when we visited the border patrol folks the old style fencing they had ten penetrations a day. the new style, theyre having one a month. there is a dramatic difference if you change the style of fencing. it should be fenc...

For the non-taxpayer paid for wall. >> none of this will be good, and somebody will have to pay a price for this, and as of right now it seems that it will be the president. the question is will he care? will those things move him. >> i hope nancy pelosi has enough leeway from her own left to get a good deal. she could actually get real progress i think on daca or other issues. >> i assume shes got more leeway on this issue than others, right? >> look, i think that the party is totally united be...

Disincentivized to budge because they are not going to fund a wall. nancy pelosi was very clear on this. i think we are farther away than we have been up and to this point, and you know, we can have working groups and stuff. its up to donald trump. if donald trump does not commit to a deal, its not going to happen. you can have as many meetings as you want. >> michael, donald trump always wants his cake and eat it too, can he le open the government and keep his wall fight going? >> i dont know. ...

Investigation reveals more information that requires that people take action. >> is there any part of you that says, look, at some point we have to reopen the government no matter what we have to do here, that you have to give him something? at what point do you feel as if -- is there ever a pressure point in your mind that youre like lets give him something to get out of this, weve got to reopen the government? >> it all depends on what you mean by something. no ones going to give him $5 billio...

On the one hand there was trump digging in moments after democratic leaders spoke. >> so we told the president we needed the government open. he resisted. in fact, he said hed keep the government closed for a very long period of time, months or even years. >> i did say that, absolutely i said that. i dont think it will, but i am prepared and i think i can speak for republicans in the house and republicans in the senate, they feel very strongly about having a safe country, having a border that ma...

Negotiated process, were giving that a shot. >> so is that a threat hanging over the democrats? >> i never threaten anybody. but i am allowed to do that. >> to be clear, the president says hes willing to keep the government partially shut down for years if congress doesnt fund his wall. at at the same time, he claims he doesnt need the funds, and he doesnt need congress. were going to try to solve that riddle in a few minutes, which brings us to the version of president trump we also saw today, ...

Of 1.3 billion that was provided last year. if he said ill take the 1.6, would that be -- and i know that you guys have taken that off the table, at that point, though, would you be like, fine, lets get out of this thing? >> look, we were very clear, the 1.6 the way it was written also had language saying its not for a wall. if the presidents talking about border security money, weve already provided it. were happy to have a conversation about border security. he just needs to stop deluding his ...