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Essentially comes down to whether or not donald trump wants to give up on his assertion that he wants to see this wall built. this is a point that was just -- >> its down to slats, right? >> right, exactly. the steel slats. the beautifully, artistically designed steel slats. >> he never said concrete. >> were back to slats. >> to the point just made. the only person who can negotiate and have final sign-off and authorization of what trump wants to do is trump when he has something in front of hi...

I voted for you. build the wall. our citizenship is not to be given away free. >> ed: you are in the house before now being elected to the senate and i have to press you on the fact that if that veteran wants the wall built, why didnt you and your colleagues build that wall in 2017 and 2018? >> ive had the chance to vote for building that wall, every time ive done it. our citizenship and this country and our sovereignty is precious. i say i fight for five things every day. faith, family, freedom...

Privately some of his allies saying that if he could not get funding for the border wall, he would be backing down on the key campaign promise, and get this wall built. so now, the shutdown is entering the 13th day, and no end in sight, and he has met with the congressional members in the situationroom, and started out with the dhs secretary kirstjen neilson briefing people on the border situation, and she was interrupted with by nancy pelosi and chuck schumer about how to get the government bac...

>> well, i mean, there is very little support for this wall in the country and not just among people who voted for democrats, right? as you said, i think its 35% of people in this country want this wall built. fewer than that support this government shutdown. i think people who voted for democrats understand theyre going into a divided government, that theyre going to have to compromise with this president, as erratic and unreasonable as he is. but what they didnt vote for is kind of unilateral ...

Corey gardner in colorado. gardner, for example, someone we know is working behind the scenes, talking to the president, trying to get some kind of resolution to this. the president is playing with house money to a degree here. he has no other agenda left. there will not be another tax cut with the democratic left. maybe this trade deal. other than that, the wall is the last big campaign promise that he can fight for legislatively. i think thats part of the reason why youre seeing him so dug in....

Down trade across the border, things like national security, and then president trump well knows he keeps his eye on the stock market if there is some interruption to cross border trade, it could well rattle markets and thats not something the president looks favorably on. you see there was a lot of frantic tweeting in the last week or two as the stock market see sawed up and down and settled down as of yesterday. >> not like the markets need something else to worry about at this point. a cnn po...

Some pieces of land are as wide as parking spots. we have to go to court and actually get through that process and actually pay fair market value to the land owners. remember the secure fence act of 12 years ago? were still in court with over 100 separate cases. the president is not going to have his wall built even if he gets a second term. its a fools errand. they should focus on a technological solution which is really what customs and border patrol want. plus focus on the real immigration pr...

Against himself. we dont really know what he wants. last week he was sort of all over the place. the administration was all over the place in terms of first sort of accepting deal that congressional democrats and republicans had reached. and then backed away because of pressure from the far right, and then today and yesterday you heard him talking act webout wee are building a wall, but we need a wall. he said in the past our southern border is secure, and then on the same day said all these ter...

Sides. 85% of americans would like to see protections for dreamers. thats something democrats have fought for a long time. if he gave protections for dreamers, that would help. at the same time he can do some of the things he wants. he can certainly get that wall built and throw in doing away with chain migration and the visa lottery. there are a lot of areas that are room for negotiation that have been agreed on in the past. the dream act of 2001, a bipartisan act. these were key components of ...

Billion dollars for an undefined border wall, not even going whether it be concrete or steel or what its cost per mile would be. >> are the republicans losing the argument here in bogging down how many millions its going to be or what its going to look like rather than convincing the american people and therefore putting pressure on democrats of this is a national security issue? and it shouldnt matter what it costs? >> they do need to stress its a national security issue. whether its 6 billion ...