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>> reporter: the acting chief of staff clearly frustrated by the slow progress being made in these talks to try to reopen the federal government and to give president trump what he's asking for. the 5.6 or $5.7 billion to fund his long-promised border wall. to be specific, those baby steps that you mentioned, according to a source on capitol hill, are essentially the discussion between democrats and republicans today that indicate that democrats just basically asked republicans for an official justification to appropriate eight that $5.6 billion in border wall spending. republicans essentially...

In nine hours the government low pressure come to a shut down. >> the president has a very small ask that he had really since he arrived that congress focus like voters want him to do on border security and she addiment that will happen. we have seen a lot of down to the wire negotiations in my lifetime here. i have been in washington for 30 years he has a very, very firm position and right now he is engaged in ongoing negotiations to achieve his objectives. >> talking about a partial shut down because seven bills are involved. six have been agreed to, most of the seventh has as well but for t...

To mueller, to changes in staff. >> give me a synonym for stress. you have the russia investigation, as you mentioned, kicking up and closing in, you have prosecutors on all fronts investigating nearly every aspect of donald trump's public life. you have democrats coming to control in about two weeks time. and investigate any whiff of wrongdoing, and then add to all of that, what could be the first signs of an economic slowdown on the horizon. you take that and add to that drama, this impasse over border wall spending, which threatens to shut down the government at the end of the week. underne...

And foss president trump, the border wall funding is key. joining me now is republican carl carlos curbelo of florida. >> jim, good to be with you. >> we're told by the senate appropriations committee, the chairman, that president trump has made $5 billion, his red line funding target for border wall spending. is that your understanding? and if he doesn't get that, is it your understanding that the president would be willing to shut the government down? >> that's exactly right, jim. and the good news in all of this is that this presents congress with yet another opportunity to address immigrat...

Extrajudicial killings, killing people before they have gone through the judicial process, but he's nabbed one of the most coveted invitations in the world. he will go to the white house. >> and what are the optics of rodrigo duterte at the white house? >> the white house is defending it. and we'll talk about that. also, both congressional parties reaching a deal on a huge spending bill where if approved will fund the government through september. it includes several wins for democrats, adding billions for the pentagon and border security but nothing for president trump's promised wall along...