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Government not shut down. We will put a clean funding stop gap on the floor to keep government open for 45 days for the house and senate to get their work done. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy moments ago saying that government will not shut down as a midnight deadline approaches. This as the house has gavelled in for a rare saturday session and a lot of questions about that deadline. Welcome to Fox News Live, im griff jenkins. Youll Jacqui Heinrich and aishah is on capitol hill. There are a lot of them, why dont you start off. Good morning, good afternoon to you, theres been a lot thats happened...

>> sandra: we will see where it goes. andy mccarthy, thank you. >> bill: see you in three years if that's the case. some reporters getting a firsthand look at border security yesterday. here is one of those. >> the president has been talking about it right here. as you can see, yes, you can see through these slots to the other side of the u.s.-mexico border. >> bill: why did not get the reaction that some thought. we will have more on that. >> sandra: silly arguments that democrats are using against the wall. the attorney general was with the president at the border yesterday. he is with us ne...

>> jesse: the stalemate over money for the border wall set to intensify with democrats retaking control of the house. nancy pelosi is promising to put pressure on president trump and republicans after reclaiming the gavel and the speakership just hours ago. pelosi is also insisting she's not budging on coughing up money for the wall. >> are you willing to come up and give him some of this money for the wall because apparently that is the sticking point? >> no, nothing for the wall. there is no amount of persuasion he can do to say to us we want you to do something that is not effective, that c...

In other words, then they're not even discussing it over the christmas and new year's breakdown of what could be in that package. >> would he veto it or not? >> depends what's in it. the president likes the $5.6 billion in the house package. his incoming acting chief of staff has -- and his vice president have offered less than that as a compromise. we've heard nothing in return. a negotiation, by definition, has to include both sides. he's in the white house. he's in washington, ready to negotiate. this is important for border security and keeping the government open. you keep saying wall, wa...

A-letter word and you are not being honest. >> the president is the who explicitly said it's the wall and the reason why. >> he said you can't cherry pick his tweets. he talked about border security yesterday. >> the definition of what constitutes a wall is fluid. outgoing chief of staff john kelly said this administration abandoned the idea of a concrete wall early in trump's presidency. he said to be honest, it's not a wall. the president still said wall often times he will say barrier or fencing. he tended towards steel slats. president trump told aides he would not be willing to sign a bil...