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Appearing stalled, president today took democrats to task for blocking his wall, as you heard, predicted congress would fail at their negotiations and claimed the wall is already a reality, all if a span of just a few minutes. >> i don't think they're going to make a deal. i see what's happening. if there's no wall, it doesn't work, and we're building the wall right now. i mean, a lot of people don't know that, but we have a lot of wall under construction. we've given out a lot of contracts over the last three, four weeks. good contracts. a lot of wall is soon going to be under construction. >...

Another government shutdown appearing stalled, president today took democrats to task for blocking his wall, as you heard, predicted congress would fail at their negotiations and claimed the wall is already a reality, all in a span of just a few minutes. >> i don't think they're going to make a deal. i see what's happening. if there's no wall, it doesn't work, and we're building the wall right now. i mean, a lot of people don't know that, but we have a lot of wall under construction. we've given out a lot of contracts over the last three, four weeks. good contracts. a lot of wall is soon going...

>> nbc news has fact checked that claim. just to be clear here, "this is false. the white house has not yet built any new section of border fencing or wall." then there's trump's choice of

$5.7 billion, how much of that can or cannot be labeled for a, quote, wall or some sort of border fencing. how much of it can be? i mean, is there a number right now for democrats that is acceptable? >> no. what i would say is there isn't a number, this is why we're starting this process. but what i would say is homeland security has billions of dollars that they have not spent that congress allocated in prior years. let's spend those dollars and if we're going to allocate a new dollar of taxpayer money, let's do it in a smart and effective way. let's ask folks what is the most effective way t...

Of strong border security. we want to make sure that it's efficient and up to the standards of the 21st century. you may get some monies there for some border fencing or border wall or whatever it may be. but it's going to be part of a larger package which makes sure we give relief to the 800,000 resip yencipients of daca. what we want to see is comprehensive immigration reform. >> i'm interested in seeing if you think these two numbers i'm about to put up affect republicans and the president specifically in terms of giving more. new polling out this week, 1 in 3 republicans want a different n...