following multiple breaking stories, including president trump telling reporters at the white house he wants what he calls a pro-rated down payment on a border wall on any temporary deal to end the government shutdown for two or three weeks. lawmakers are working on some sort of compromised plan after dueling bills backed by democ t democrats and republicans failed this afternoon in the u.s. senate. let's ask our political and legal experts about what should happen next. dana, the president was pretty firm. he said if they don't work out some sort of deal, he has got a lot of other alternatives ready to go, which he didn't describe but has a lot of other alternatives. >> that's right, and cnn has exclusive reporting that one of the things that he has done already is prepared a draft executive action proposal for emergency declaration of sorts.