continuing for probably a while. >> jessica dean, thank you for the update. joining me is commentator writer and editor siraj hasmi and let me start with you here, siraj. the president attempting to use the deaths of children to sell his wall. in this risk reward calculation that we don't even know if the president when sending out this tweet actually performed, does such a salacious claim, is the output worth it? >> he is probably solidifying, if anything, the message for his base. he not moving the democrats any closer to the negotiating table by trying to reopen the government for getting funding for his border wall. the democrats, specifically,