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Committee is up against the clock looking for a compromise on border security president trump will sign to avoid another government shutdown in just five days. joining us now, two leading members of the panel. the republican chair of the senate appropriations committee, richard shelby. and jon tester.welcome to "fox news sunday". senator tester, has the conference committee reached agreement at least on the number of border barriers? these reports that it will be south of $2 billion. is that true? >> it still in negotiations chris. when you talk about border security, it includes more than jus...

Shutdown next weekend. but any compromise is likely to fall well short of the deal president trump wants to build a wall. will the president agree to that deal? in a moment, we will speak with acting chief of staff mick mulvaney who brought house members to camp david this weekend looking for areas of common ground. but first, let's get the latest from chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel. >>reporter: sources say their site will not accept more than $2 billion for physical border barriers. they say the range of consideration is between $1.3 billion and $2 billion. president trump ans...

Congressional negotiators are talking about is somewhere between 1.3-$2 billion. in any case, less than half the $5.7 billion the president wants for new border barriers point will the president signed a deal at that number? what's i have to laugh - - >> because i've heard those numbers and i've also heard zero. i've also heard 2.5 or 2.6. i'm looking forward to watching the interview after i'm off the show because i don't know where the democrats are and i think that's a reflection of where their party is. i don't think they know where they stand on this issue and that's one of the reasons we...

>> i'm optimist if i can they have. they were optimistic that they would reach a deal. they didn't reach it by friday which was my hope but i'm hopeful early next week, hopefully as early as monday, that they have reached agreement and prepared to make a report so we can pass it before the 15th of february. >> we all hope that's the case. our latest reporting is that democrats and republican who's are part of this negotiating team, the conferees, may be settling on around $2 billion for border barriers. we've heard from some democrats in the past who say no amount of money should go to a borde...

Off on about $2 billion for border barriers? do you tli hink we are headed f another shutdown? >> i i think the president has been clear and republicans have been clear that we have got to secure the border. i thought it was interesting when you watched the negotiations going on between our committee when the committee members had a chance to go visit the border, when they had a chance to hear from border patrol agents themselves and testimony it really made a difference i think. it think there's bipartisan agreement. we have to secure the border. i think there are some members of leadership o...