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Richard. lindsey graham started off by saying, he said border wall/fencing/border security. so he didn't want to pin down and say we're going to build the wall. he spoke very reasonably about saying look, it's about border security and we're going to use this as a bargaining chip to talk about daca. lindsey graham i'm not surprised hearing this from him, he was one of the members of the gang of eight, the last really big comp rehensive immigration reform push, but my question hanging over my head is what happens when the more conservative elements of the republican party are engaged? peter kin...

>> in the last week you've seen the president have two high profile border security luncheons. why aren't democrats coming over here? should you have brought some with you? >> well, it's pretty hard to get here from hawaii. but the phones do work. so all i can say is that the democrats have said they're not going to give him a dime for border wall. the house will change next week. they're going to send over a bill from the house that won't have any money for a physical barrier, a wall, a fence, slats. the approach the democrats have taken have made it pretty hard to have a discussion. they're ...

Our border security. >> president trump is not going to walk away from this fight without border security funding, moan for the wall. >> donald trump owns this. he said he wanted to own it in the december meeting in the oval office. guess what? he listened to some right wing folks on radio and are his pup p -- puppet masters and they pulled the strings and he just moved. >> we're going to start with the shutdown in the ninth day. no sign of change as we approach 2019. it likely will not be until thursday at the minimum when new members of congress will take the oath of office that we're going ...

Doesn't have to look as if he's caved? yes, it comes down to this semantic argument over what is a wall. is it border security? is it a border barrier? is it drones? is it just law enforcement? is it a location of all of those things? i think at the end of the day what you will see the white house say is that it's all of the above and that will end up mattering more than will the overall dollar figure. so in some ways, if you take this new deal, this proposed deal that lindsey graham is offering, in some ways we're back at square one. we're back at $5 billion. remember the original chuck and n...

Do that for all of the infrastructure programs, and this member of congress isn't about to give the president a $5 billion slush fund to go build a wall wherever he wants to build it, whether it's necessary, whether it's useful or not. tell us precisely where you want to build that wall, mr. president, precisely how you're going to use the money for observation devices. and by the way, are you going to take care of the people that do arrive here seeking asylum rather than letting them die of some illness. >> meanwhile, politico is reporting that "the white house has ratcheted up rhetoric, has ...