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Security. >> could you sign on to that funding the six or seven other departments through appropriations and then have the border security discussion separately? >> no. i'd like to resolve it now. i'm on the appropriations committ committee as well. one of the bills we tried to get done was the bill that i chaired, the financial services general government bill. all of these are important to me. president actually said back in june and july of last year that we are not going to do appropriations this bill without doing additional border security. it's not like he dropped this on everybody at t...

House was two different messages. one was a clear willingness to try to negotiate, come down from that five billion number. listen to how it was framed earlier today. >> we have talked to the democrats about different things to our immigration law. this is a border security discussion. not just a border wall. there's other things broken including the laws that allow folks to stay here. >> i think the top lines from this morning, the white house didn't talk about the five billion. it's no longer something they seem to be sticking to and open on what you call it. whether it's a fence or sltats a...

Make the base angry. there are a lot of ideas out there mp . >> we have talked to the democrats about different things, about different changes to our immigration law. this is a border security discussion. not just a border wall. there's other things broken with our border security including the liaws that allow folks to stay here. >> ken, is that on the table anymore? >> absolutely not. that is something democrats offer when they were sort of still in this deal making mode. chuck schumer offered it. now democrats have a lot more leverage and they will have even more when nancy pelosi comes in...