and they'll make adjustment. people understand exactly what's going on, but many of those people that won't be receiving a paycheck, many of those people agree 100% with what i'm doing. >> reporter: democrats argue it would be a mistake to cave to the president who vowed he would own the shutdown. >> if you reward the president with that kind of tactic, jake, then we're going to see every year the president shutting down the government. and we just can't afford to do business that way. >> reporter: one way the white house is trying to win the shutdown battle is by declaring war on the facts. press secretary sarah sanders tried to suggest that thousands of known or suspected terrorists are coming across the border with mexico. only to be fact checked live by fox. >> it's by air, it's by land and it's by sea. it's all of the above, but one thing you're forgetting is the most vulnerable point of entry that we have into this country is our southern border and we have to protect it. and the more and more -- >> they're not coming across the southern border, sarah. they're coming and they're being stopped at airports. >> they're coming a number of