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>> a, it's not true. b, a more minor point, how are all these federal workers communicating directly with donald trump about their policy views? i mean by what mechanism did he gather that or claim to gather that opinion? now let's show you some facts about the public opinion. most americans oppose trump's shutdown and just 35% of those survade in this reuters poll say they backed including money for the wall in the first place for the bill. only 25% took the more extreme bargaining position here they would support both the wall and the mechanism of donald trump shutting down the entire federa...

Would you say? >> i just got off the phone with a democratic aide who says that democrats are not going to budge on what the senate already passed, which is this idea that essentially there will be no border funding in this cr. so democrats are saying they're not going to do this. president trump has already signaled the white house is willing to come down on the initial $58 billion ask but the president himself has not fully endorsed that. the key thing here is the house is going to turn into democratically controlled house and nancy pelosi will likely become speaker. that will make it even h...

To me and communicated, stay out until you get the funding for the wall. these federal workers want the wall. >> a, it's not true. b, a more minor point, how are all these federal workers communicating directly with donald trump about their policy views? i mean by what mechanism did he gather that or claim to gather that opinion? now let's show you some facts about the public opinion. most americans oppose trump's shutdown and just 35% of those survade in this reuters poll say they backed including money for the wall in the first place for the bill. only 25% took the more extreme bargaining po...

No plan. more people blaming him for it than any other party. 47% of americans in the new reuters poll. trump's acting chief of staff also struggling today to outline any kind of clear bargaining position. >> president trump willing to accept anything short of that wall? >> that's why the government is closed. >> what deal are you willing to accept? >> i'm not going to tell you guys that. >> okay. so don't tell anyone and just wait for this to work itself out. trump of course going further, publicly doubling down today. threatening to close the border entirely with the market like that if he d...

Of the house in which case the bargaining position goes up. i think all democrats, you know, from their perspective is better to sit back, wait, have nancy pelosi take over and have your bargaining power increase. of course, if you're the republicans, you're probably wondering how come this fight waited until the very end of republican rule of the senate and the house of representatives and didn't take place the last two years of the trump administration. >> anita: yeah, right. that is strange timing. speaking of the democratic leadership, we have from chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. let's bri...