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Pressure, right? jim acosta at the white house, thank you. i want to bring in gloria borger and dana bash to talk about this. what a day. what a news day, right? if there appears to be some sort of agreement, walk us through what that could be, dana, because we knew there was this bipartisan group of senators that was aiming for something that we've heard about before, which is -- this has been on the table or discussed or out there -- a stopgap measure that funds the government for a short period of time so they can talk about border security separately. >> you have a bipartisan group of sena...

We are in a shutdown situation. i think at the end of the day a compromise position can take care of the border and take care of the shutdown and now is the time to seize that opportunity. >> why not separate it and re-open the government so people who can't afford to donate their salaries, their paychecks to charity can put food on the table for their families and then deal with the issue of border security separately? >> because you're never going to fix the problem of border security and you're turning your back on the voices of those two children that died on the border. the law enforcemen...

Here's what's politically significant about it, andrea. it was likely aimed at those very republicans that you were just talking about on capitol hill who were starting to crack, who were saying, look, we need to start negotiating here. let's deal with border security separately. we need to get the government re-opened. the political pressure, andrea, is only going to mount on friday. that will be when some 800,000 federal employees don't get a paycheck and that's when the political pressure is going to start to become very real. not only for this president but for lawmakers on capitol hill. n...