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But politically, if they passed a bill that had increased border security with daca, what is wrong with that? then trump can say, hey, i put up the wall, i met my promise, right? and we get daca. we get something we want. why not compromise? >> we're not bargaining chips. us dreamers, we're a separate issue. >> but you are. >> but we shouldn't be. we shouldn't be in that position. if he feels he wants to use us as bargaining chips, what he's doing is scapegoating. >> he's using you as a bargaining trip. i think that's pretty obvious. but congress, you know, if congress doesn't want that, they ...

Telling "the washington post" this. some people have used code words. some have come at it obliquely. he just, completely divorced from the truth or fact or our reality or our experience here in el paso, uses this so incite fear and paranoia and turn that to political gain. we've been to the border. we've been in el paso. about a year ago i sat down with a group of el paso residents who have different perspectives on immigration. i want to remind you of our conversation because a year later, not much has changed in washington. the fate of the wall, dreamers all still in limbo. >> we don't want...

There's not a politician here in washington that can withstand another 35-day shutdown or even a one-day shutdown. >> when it comes to the wall specifically, president trump's acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, says if there's a deal but it doesn't have the full $5.7 billion that trump is asking for, he'll get it without congress. listen. >> you cannot take a shutdown off the table, and you cannot take 5.7 off the table. if you end up some place in the middle, then what you probably see is the president say, yeah, okay, and i'll go find the money some place else. >> you've been looking for ...

Ambassador to the u.n. pushing trump to take far right positions and keeping the border wall front and center. >> massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the american people. >> reporter: on trump's best days, his tv echo chamber cheers. and on his worst days, they sometimes just close their eyes or look in the opposite direction. just last week when james mattis resigned in protest, carlson led his show with a border wall monologue instead, mocking democrats. >> only dumb people believe in walls. walls work exceedingly well. nothing works better in fact. >> reporter: the journalist...

Phrase it is like lighting a match and throwing it on some gasoline here. this a day at a 24 hours or 48 hours in a week in which we've seen developments on syria, we've seen developments as it relates to the potential for a government shutdown. president trump -- think about his mindset here. yesterday there were signals coming that maybe he would break this promise to his base on this border wall, pick up the fight again in the spring and sign the short-term fix if the senate and the house passed it to keep the government open and then what happened? he started losing. he started losing the ...