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And good morning to you, everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning. It is saturday, september 30th. The last day of the month. Im amara walker. October is almost here. Im omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. Amara, good to be with you, so close but so far away. I feel close to you. Same to you. Great to see you, omar. Were watching a lot of news this morning. In fact, here we are again. Just hours away from a Government Shutdown. Lawmakers still cant agree on a deal to fund the government past midnight. Were specifically talking about the house right now. The last ditch efforts are under way to k...

Programs, path and reduction in those ice detention beds, $4 million in humanitarian aid for detained migrants. when you break apart, 55 miles of fencing. is that enough? >> i don't believe that is enough at all. i'm very disappointed in the efforts of humanitarian aid when we should be focusing on humanitarian aid for citizens in this country. but the president do have a few other options he can utilize, transfer money from other spendings and doing things of that nature which i think he will take advantage of and i'm speaking mostly to the emergency order he would implement and use funding t...

>> because i think we might work a deal and if we don't, i may go that route. i have the right to do national emergency if i want. >> what's your threshold? >> my threshold will be if i can't make a deal with people that are unreasonable. >> webster's defines the word emergency as an unforeseen combination of circumstances or the resulting state that calls for immediate action or an urgent need for assistance or relief. you could argue there are a lot of people waiting in mexico who are in urgent need of assistance or relief. you could also say the same about the americans waiting for paycheck...

>> there's a huge difference between the deals that donald trump used to be involved with and deals involving national security and federal employees and hundreds of thousands of people. >> there absolutely is. i think in his past, the president actually lost a billion dollar deal on the upper west side when he made ed koch angry at him. and the mayor wasn't going to go along with this television city project that had real potential. he did this also with the united states football league where all the other owners wound up being really angry. because he pushed something beyond what was constr...

Is doing, don't count mark in. >> i don't know many of those people. i assume that he is getting his data from somewhere. i don't know many of those people that are big fans of not getting paid. >> reporter: and when asked if he considers a safe border his safety net as the president has suggested for these unpaid workers -- >> i can't spend border security if that is what you're asking me. border security isn't going to pay my mortgage next month. it is not an immediate need for me right now. i would prefer to be able to pay my bills, to take care of my family. >> reporter: none of this is go...