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Deals. >> i am a deal maker. i do very well, i make great deals. >> he's a great deal maker. help me understand this. i am serious. he wanted $5.7 billion. they offered him $1.6 billion for 65 miles of wall. now he's getting $1.375 billion, less money, fewer miles. >> he also got to have history's longest shutdown and take the credit for it and put the country in that misery and stand his presidency with it. not only has he failed in this deal, he made his political position worst. he made himself a laughing stock for the country. this is the guy who had to have someone else invent the name of...

Over. >> i'm disappointed in the amount of money in the compromise. i assume the president will sign it. i don't think anybody is interested in having another government shutdown. >> reporter: questions remain about whether the president could be swayed by conservative backlash. >> nobody should be happy. the president has every right to be angry. the so-called compromise is typical of the d.c. swamp and its level of funding is pathetic. >> reporter: one hard-liner is framing it as a win for him. pointing to remarks made by house speaker nancy pelosi when she said she would give the president ...

Building the wall and keeping the government open. we have a bipartisan congressional committee, they have agreed to allocate a whopping oh, $1.375 billion for new border wall construction, that pales in comparison to the president's request for a $5.7 billion, but funding approximately 55 miles of new wall, construction on a border that is 2,000 miles long. we haven't seen the language, nor has the white house, sources telling me it is still being worked out. but if democrats going to put a lot of restrictions on wall construction, in other words, it is not really wall money, this is not a bi...

$1.375 billion down payment for the wall, okay, that money can be used immediately. if he takes step two, which is the if he takes step two, which is the president utilizing money he has identified, some $900 million, for additional construction, that is already available for the administration's discretion. that would be about $2.3 billion, but the important third step needs to happen simultaneously. that would be the president would need to declare a national emergency. this is the time. that is a necessity. and the president, i think i know him pretty well, telegraphed that very thing just ...

Geraldo, i know conservatives see this, a pittance based on the extent of the problem. you know i say it is 2%, not the other 98%, we don't need to keep going over that. this will stop, hopefully, the influx of heroin, fentanyl, gangs, cartels, those who come here and do commit murder and sexual assaults, violent assaults, and these democrats don't seem to care. the president that i know pretty well, i'm reading himm tonight saying, sure, give me the $1.375 billion, i have another $900 million over here, and i will declare a national emergency, and that is it, but he is not going to tell us af...