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President out of the talks? >> reporter: no. on the contrary, they plan to keep him in the loop, at least the republicans do, to make sure whatever ideas they are kicking around could earn his signature at some point. >> harris: do you want the president to stay out of this, as senator chuck shumer said? >> no. the president has to be part of it. we have to get to a bill that he'll sign. he has to be part of the discussion, the negotiation. >> reporter: this big meeting, the start of the border wall bill negotiations with members of the house and the senate, democrats and republicans, is runni...

Democrats to compromise. >> i watched speaker pelosi sit there and would not negotiate with anything. so i give president trump a lot of credit. he put the american people before politics. what people are celebrating, saying speaker pelosi is strong because she got status quo? that's not what the country wants. country wants to find common ground. >> dana: peter doocy is live on capitol hill. do democrats sound any more likely to consider border wall money by february 15th, the new deadline? >> reporter: some in the rank and file do, dana. they're starting to use more open minded language than...

You see parts of state, parts of transportation, the epa, agriculture, interior, hud, health and human services. why not fund those departments and continue to fight on the wall? >> because what the congress is doing is holding these departments hostage. they're putting those bills attached to that border wall bill -- >> yes, the republican senate is doing that. the house passed a bill to fund them through september 30th. >> the fact of the matter is this is a national security issue that congress has a responsibility to help the president protect the american people. politics as usual, my fri...

Outside of mcconnell's office in nancy pelosi is on an island in the pacific. >> house democrats are in a bit of a bind, and they won't be putting any offer on the table until she was elected speaker. >> part of pelosi's leadership team is forecasting what she might want. hakeem jeffries tweeted day seven of the trumps shut down. they refused to pay a $5 billion ransom note, and the $5 billion in border wall funding is stuck in the senate where allies and lindsey graham wrote today, to nancy pelosi on the house democrats, no wall money, no deal. so, senate leaders abandon attempts to move the ...

Resolve this situation and this is another sign of washington's dysfunctionality. >> mack, you're right. that is a promise that's already been broken. mexico is not paying for the wall. the government is now shut down because the president wants to make sure that congress puts taxpayers on the hook for that border wall bill. >> i think that's exactly right and i think robert may have outlined a potential end game. at some point -- of course, we've had the holidays here, and that softens a bit or changes the dynamic of a government's shutdown perhaps. but at some point, i think the pressure sta...