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And nancy pelosi called a down payment notion unreasonable. democrats are expected to present a knew border security package but that isn't a sure thing. with this shutdown approaching its sixth week, the strains are coming out in the open. they read mitch mcconnell the rite act saying the shutdown needs to end soon. this was rare. please note this exchange between republican ted cruz and democrat michael bennett. >> the democrats are fond of using the phrase, hostage taking. they are quite literally holding the men and women of the coast guard hostage because they want to win a political vict...

You need the wall. >> is mitch mcconnell and schumerer can come to an agreement -- >> it depends what the agreement is. if they come to an agreement, i would support it. >> even if it has no wall money? >> look, i have other alternatives if i have to. >> while people scramble to figure out when a pro-rated down payment is, tonight our nbc news colleagues on the hill report that senator schumer has ruled out any pro-rating for the wall. and nancy pelosi called a down payment notion unreasonable. democrats are expected to present a knew border security package but that isn't a sure thing. with t...

Faye, what would you say to president trump if you had a minute? >> president trump, no disrespect, ms. nancy is not going to give you that wall. mr. trump, you need to stop holding us hostage. you show more love to putin, kim jong-un. show us some love. stop it. let us go back to work. >> last thing before we go tonight, our effort to bring you the voices all this week of our fellow citizens, the public servants, the federal workers who are struggling to get by with no income due to the government shutdown. we begin this collection with an epa inspector. >> for example, we go out and

Amazingly, and this is the core of it, mitch mcconnell and the senate republicans for 35 days have stuck with donald trump. not a single one of them think this is reasonable. they controlled congress for two years. they could have legislated on one of those bills that only takes 51 votes, not 60 votes. they could have built the wall. they chose not to. the trump administration chose not to make it a priority compared to tax cuts and other things and now they're having a fight over a phony issue and i think bits to snap for the senate republicans. this is a retired rear admiral in the coast gua...

Majority leader's attention and indeed, the vote appears to have jump started talks between mcconnell and schumer. democrats and democrats. while those talks were going on, trump appeared on camera to signal he could be open to some kind of a deal. >> well, one of the ideas suggested is that they pay sort of a pro-rated down payment for the wall, which i think people would agree that you need. you need the wall. >> is mitch mcconnell and schumerer can come to an agreement -- >> it depends what the agreement is. if they come to an agreement, i would support it. >> even if it has no wall money? ...