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Here is the democrats came out and said they told the president, mr. president, lets just open the government and then well discuss the issue of the wall border security and each said thats not going to happen in pieces, as he put it, we wont be opening the government until this is solved. he also made the case, he never talks about federal workers personally, but he made the case that if he did interview all of them, they would be happy with what hes doing because hes giving them security inste...

Andrea? >> garrett, covering the white house as you do, what is the strategy here. the democrats take over tomorrow, and he is losing leverage and they have the votes to pass the measure, and then back to nancy pelosi, it is on the senates problem,and they have passed it. so how can they say they dont agree with it any longer? >> andrea, the strategy is to seize as much of the initiative and to the degree they have it leveraged as the white house possibly can. both of the meetings today, the cab...

Muddying the waters with the wall and border security. it is not clear what the president considers an actual wall. john kelly said this administration abandoned the idea of a concrete wall early in trumps presidency. he told "the los angeles times" it is not a wall. the president still says wall. he will say barrier or fencing. now he is tending to steel slats. we talked about the wall early on in the administration. senator graham came to the white house and said he pitched the president on wh...

There willing to provide money for wall border security if we could deal with the daca population and tps people. we hope to get serious discussions started maybe as soon as next week. >> reporter: keep in mind, mick mulvaney, the acting chief of staff and budget director, has signalled the president is willing to back down off that $5 billion number. vice president mike pence offered something in the neighborhood of $2.5 billion. half of that and democrats rejected it. the democratic leaders ha...

Wall funding for temporary protections for the dreamers protected by daca. >> the president did not commit, but i think he is open minded. i know there are democrats out there willing to provide money for wall border security if we could deal with the daca population and tps people. we hope to get serious discussions started maybe as soon as next week. >> reporter: keep in mind, mick mulvaney, the acting chief of staff/budget director, has signalled the president is willing to back down off that...

Senator lindsey graham, a top trump ally, said yesterday after a two-hour lunch with the president, that trump was open minded about a deal that would involve him sticking with that $5 billion demand but also supporting a temporary renewal of daca protections for young undocumented immigrants. >> the president didnt commit, but i think hes very open minded. i know theres some democrats out there who would be willing to provide money for wall border security if we could deal with the daca populat...

>> the president did not commit, but i think he is open minded. i know there are democrats out there willing to provide money for wall border security if we could deal with the daca population and tps people. we hope to get serious discussions started maybe as soon as next week. >> reporter: keep in mind, mick mulvaney, the acting chief of staff and budget director, has signalled the president is willing to back down off that $5 billion number. vice president mike pence offered something in the ...

People on the ground who are really on the front lines, on the borderer every day, what they needed and what they said they needed was a barrier in some areas, but it would look not like a concrete wall but would be steel slats, a combination of fencing, but along with more personnel and technology. that goes to show that distance between rhetoric and reality. and potentially how difficult its going to be for whoever comes next as chief of staff or anyone, any official on immigration and border ...

His ally is floating a proposal he says could end the standoff. >> the president didnt commit. but i think hes very open minded. i know theres some democrats out there. who would be willing to provide money for wall border security if we could deal with the daca population and tps people. >> nbcs geoff bennett is at the white house for us. last date for john kelly, the outgoing chief of staff. the president says huh-uh, what you just said in that interview, not true. >> heres some context. becau...

Surprised the white house when he announced the policy back in may. in his interview with the los angeles times, outgoing chief of staff john kelly talked about president trumps plan to build a wall along the u.s./mexico border. he told the paper, quote, to be honest its not a wall. kelly added the president still says wall. oftentimes hell say barrier or fencing. now hes tended toward steel slats. we left a solid concrete wall early on in the administration when we asked people what they needed...