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Floor yesterday. that's the moment we're in. the point for the president is he has not been able to convince lawmakers that -- to see it his way. one democratic senator said to me, the president can easily be shown he's not winning this argument. therefore, change tactics, let's begin anew with additional negotiation on border spending. that's where i think we are right now. and no one here on capitol hill will really buy into what is going to happen until the president says that. that's not just caution. that's not just deference to the office. that is a practical lesson of having been told t...

February 8th. let's listen in. not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. >> so there you have it, the motion was not agreed to. 52 senators voted in favor of this proposal. how many republicans did we see break with their party and vote to reopen? >> i don't have the whip count yet, i was with senator chris koons of delaware. he is saying about 20 senators of both parties are about to make their position known that they want to call for a three-week reopening of the government with negotiations during that time for additional border spending. he is a a democrat so what ...

Him. >> david, is that likely to happen, is it the president that will get the blame, when it comes to the giving margaret was talking about, it appears that he is the one that's giving very little when you have lawmakers who have been proposing plans that mean some border spending, not perhaps 5.7 for a wall but a reduced figure. it is the president saying that's the figure that i want, period, and not budging. >> good morning, fred. margaret is right, we haven't seen political incentives on either side take shape yet. you have people like miss smith-phillips who diane interviewed that are al...

Wouldn't do that and at the same time said he would be proud to open a shutdown. i talked to a lot of republicans who made clear that a shutdown at this point doesn't get you up in. all it gets you is 800,000 federal workers furloughed or having to work at the moment for free. it doesn't change his negotiating position at all. in fact, it makes it worse because if the shuddown rides all way through the new year what you have then are democrats reopening the government. and by the way, the house-passed bill, the $5 billion for border spending that the president wants, that bill will enthis be v...

To catch up and talk about things like their grandchildren and brexit. a big story in 2016. but because her justice department was weighing charges against bill clinton's wife that day, charges that never came, lawmakers want more information and more detail and they want it on the record this morning. >> bill: we'll wait for that live from the hill. thank you, sir. >> julie: fox news alert. a potential breakthrough on the horizon on the fight over border spending as the trump administration signals it may be open to a compromise with democrats that would actually avert a partial government sh...