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Abortion plan. steve: abortion up until birth essentially. a lot of people are talking about life and how unjust this is. ashton kutcher of all people retweeted an amazing video from a man who testified before congress with down syndrome talking about how important his life is and every life is important. we are going to play that for you some time this hour. ainsley: actor and special olympian. steve: he is indeed. jillian joins us with a lot of news. jillian: that's right. good morning. let's start with this story now. lawmakers have 16 days left to come up with a border security compromise....

>> i do believe speaker pelosi is out of step with their own party. just listening to what her members have to say. we can do better. we can solve this problem, and that's what we are committed to do. that's why the conferees will be tomorrow. >> republican leaders have counted more than 60 democrats in the house who have given support for a border security compromise. some democrats have noted they are already fencing and other physical barriers in many different places, but there are gaps and i need to find ways of filling those gaps. one of those democrats from a border state says she is ho...

Shutdown is still going on the white house is vowing to pay back as soon as possible those two paychecks that workers missed during the shutdown but the clock yet again ticking with just 20 days to reach a border security compromise and this morning, the acting white house chief of staff defending the president's decision to back down without getting any funding for a border wall. >> he did what he did because many democrats had come to us, some of them privately, many spoke out publicly that they were actually starting to agree with him on the necessity for a barrier on the southern border th...

Member what is they had to do to pay their bills. some took out loans, some charges on high interest credit cards which is not good and some had their faith shaken in whether this was the right choice for them to come to work for the kourd, join the coast guard. >> we have 20 short days in which we could have another government shutdown if no border security compromise is reached and i want you to listen to what chuck schumer said after the president announced he will temporarily reopen the governmen government. >> i think he thought no one should ever underestimate the speaker as donald trump...

Cnn chief congressional correspondent dana bash is on capitol hill. so will it pass the house? >> reporter: we're going to start with the senate and it is going to be effectively a test vote, a procedural vote that will give everybody a sense of just how high the vote can ultimately go. and what this vote is an amendment about what we reported on last week, this border security compromise, this deal to add more border agents, 20,000 border agents to complete the southern border fence, to add new technology. all an attempt to get republicans who are skittish about this whole idea of ultimately ...