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Congressman from the state of california. right before we came back from break, a couple tweets from the president. let me use one to tee up my first question to you if i could. quote, nancy pelosi and some of the democrats turned down my offer yesterday before i even got up to speak, he writes. they dont see crime and drugs, they only see 2020 which they are not going to win. best economy exclamation mark. they should do the right thing and allow people to get back to work. let me ask you first...

Government and then you have a negotiation on how much to put to technology, coast guard. what you dont do is have a president thats chosen to manufacture a crisis to keep a political promise that he said originally was going to be paid for by mexico and holding 800,000 workers hostage. get them paid, back to work j a dis cushion like rational adults about how were going to fund border security. you dont take the funding for the entire government, especially when they voted for divided governmen...

Renege on his campaign promise. is there anything left in this fight? >> i think that is an unfair characterization of what democrats are saying. we said we are for border security. we said we expressed our desire to have technology and 21st century solutions. we are not playing politics. we opened government or tried to open government and we are waiting for the than tpresident partner with us. and not hold the 800,000 workers hostage. >> the president is focusing on the wall. behind the scenes...

We have a very special fallback friday. the one and only special icon and pulitzer prize winner together tonight. i dont think you want to miss it. lets begin with the big news. speaker pelosi playing "hardball." they will not give an inch to build the wall mexico would pay for as the shutdown goes into the 14th day. a.k.a. were on the third week. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer made it plain after meeting with trump. >> were just completed a lengthy and sometimes contentious conversation with th...

Resolve this until we open up government. >> we made a plea to the president once again, dont hold millions of americans, hundreds of thousands of workers hostage. open up the government and lets continue the discussions. eric: and yet another meeting broke up within the last hour with no result. ellison barber live in washington with the latest. >> reporter: this week the house papassed a combined week to reopen parts of the government through september 30th, seven democrats voted in favor of t...

Fighter in combat. that is brass tax. he denies all of it and there is pounds of evidence to exonerate him. in spite of this the prosecutors try against the nine guys and against other guys of eddie teammates to try to intimidate them saying ill go after your career. ill end your navy seal career if you dont start lying about eddie gallagher. this is the ret treatment we experience horrendously over the past four or five months. >> martha: gentlemen, thank you. this is an emotional issue for you...

What the speaker said. the bottom line is very simple. we made a plea to the president once again. dont hold millions of americans hundreds of thousands of workers hostage. open up the government and lets continue the discussions. i pointed out a call i got in a office this morning. a fire dispatcher from upstate new york. wife is pregnant. signed a mortgage. cant get the f arkfha to appro because the government is closed. this kind of situation is happening in millions of instances across the u...

>> we just completed a lengthy and sometimes contentious conversation with the president. we agreed that we will continue our conversations but we all -- we recognize on the democratic side that we really cannot resolve this until we open up government and we made that very clear to the president. >> the bottom line is very simp simple. we made a plea to the president once again. dont hold millions of americans, hundreds of thousands of workers hostage. >> and now to the white house we go and th...

The tripwire, the other great topic of conversation today, which was impeachment, whether it becomes abuse of power. and that is something -- and he himself said they are trying to get some clarity on how far he can go with this. >> bret: and whether it is moving money from one pot to another or whether it is actually having the military build a wall. there is a lot of questions about what exactly that would mean, at least clearly indicating that he wants to do negotiated way out. >> also, what ...

Know that its friday. you know that. we have a very special fall back friday, the one and only special icon and pulitzer prize winner together tonight. i dont think you want to miss it. lets begin with the big news. speaker pelosi playing "hardball." they will not give an inch to build the wall mexico would pay for as the shut down goes into the 13th day. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer made it plain after meeting with trump. >> were just completed a lengthy and sometimes contentious conversation...