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Then on twitter yesterday. the president invited republican lawmakers to the white house free lunch to discuss border security issues. he did not as far as we know invite any democrats. none of them attended to, and none were invited, even though he did say today speaking with reporters that he is willing to meet with the democrats at any time. molly. >> molly: we will see if they can come to a compromise this week or much later on. thank you very much, allison barber from the white house. >> blake: for more on this list to bring in data mart, the editor for the "washington examiner." thank yo...

Here is 2020 presidential contender and democratic senator jeff merkley, listen. >> we are absolutely willing to fund border security. the american people want to suspend money and a smart way. $5 billion is a lot of money. and to spend it on a four century strategy rather than stuff that actually improves border security is something that we are just not going to do. let me be clear, democrats are not going to agree to any funding to build new border wall? none? >> that is correct, none. >> julie: allison barber's life with the latest. >> white house press secretary sarah sander says that pre...

Basing in afghanistan, continue to fight off the terrorism threat coming from that region, but as far as an active battlefield, trying to be able to resolve the issues with the government, i do see an end date coming on that where there is not an ongoing fight there, but basing i think will be necessary long-term to protect our own national security. >> just like honduras, also, just like germany and just like -- >> japan. >> japan. >> south korea, japan. sometimes it's just -- it's an absolute necessity. senator james lankford, thank you so much. >> you bet. >> roll tide. >> db sooners. sti...

Of different iterations, it's gone through a lot of different changes and it has basic things, minor sentencing reforms where there's conflict in the previous law to be able to turn it. it deals with bipartisan cooperation, when you have a mike lee and dick durbin working together to be able to pass a bill, one section called the mercy act is something that cory booker and i had worked on together dealing with juveniles in sole dear confinement, dealing with issues of ladies who are pregnant in prison and being able to manage some of those things, also the rebalancing of crack cocaine and powd...

Reserved and a little bit more genteel. i came up first in the army courts as an army prosecutor and for 24 years in the courts of washington, d.c. where every day is a donnybrook and what we had unfold yesterday was judge emmet sullivan showing that the judiciary is still fiercely independent and the judiciary still cares deeply about governmental misconduct. what judge sullivan did was he first ticked through every ridiculous claim in that defense memo. were you entrapped? no, your honor, i wasn't. >> did you feel like you were okey-doked? >> no. did you feel like you needed a lawyer there? ...