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800,000 public servants who have been working without pay. >> the american people and the congress want to hear from the president and bring the nation together. at this critical time when the government is shut down and we're looking at border security issues. >> we have many employees suffering because of this shutdown the president has engaged in and the speaker and the house democrats are committed to reopening the government. we have now voted 10 times to reopen the government. that is our priority. >> complete coverage begins now. the headliner is devin nunes on the hill. >> mcconnell ne...

That effectively. the wall in a desert does not do that. those are the type of border security issues that are so critical to american families and american security ask to hold us hostage to this idea of one project of this president creating security -- >> he would say it's a bit more than a pet project. however, you want to label this wall, the left and the right, so totally disagree. what we can all agree is the hundreds of thousands of people that the real world impacts, we'll put the scroll on the screen. to showcase all the people and its affected by the shutdown. i don't have to tell y...

Doing your normal government work or while you're prevented from doing your normal government work. we need to get this over with. people need to get back to work. frankly, i think the president, who is not famously flexible, has been much more flexible in terms of moving to a different place than the democrats have. he's essentially moved from where he was during the campaign on border security issues to where he's pretty much in line with the last four presidents. wants to do essentially what the last four presidents did, to maintain what's been built, to extend it a little bit further. demo...

Because the president has mentioned wanting those things in addition to the wall? >> the answer is not much. p when you consider how much money was allocated last year that went unspent in a lot of border security issues, including some for the wall. i think at this point the question that the president is facing is whether or not he can convince everybody that he's actually more determined to get the government up and running and get out of this. he has really painted himself into a corner. and i think what he has failed to do over the past four weeks of the shutdown is actually convince the ...

Horrible stories about their personal lives, about what's happening with employment. i would urge the president to meet with federal workers and government workers and understand the magnitude of this problem. government needs to be open. the president needs to allow the government to be open and let us then negotiate as we should on border security issues. you can't do that while the president has us held hostage by the tactics he's using and he keeps on undermining his own negotiators. we need to open government, legislation's already passed the house, it had previously passed the senate. mi...