trucks for drugs coming into our nation. we can hire the personnel we need to facilitate trade and immigration at the border. we can fund more innovation to detect unauthorized crossings. the fact is that women andri children at the border are not a security threat. they are humanitarian challenge. a challengeth that president trump's own cruel and counter productive policies have only deepened. and the fact is president trump must stop holding american people hostage. let's stop manufacturing ang crisis, must reopen the government. thank you. leader schumer. >> thank you, speaker pelosi. my fellow americans, we address you tonight for one reason only. o the president of the t united states, having failed to get mexico to pay for his ineffective, unnecessary border wall, and unable to convince the congress or the american people to foot the bill has shut down the government.