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I need his income. >> reporter: he's getting question from some so desperate worried they can't fill their gas tanks. >> they asked if it's league tool sleep in the car. rr saying i'm a veteran, i fought for this country and for you to tell me if american citizens that you're not going to pay me, i'm very upset. >> all of that is crecanating increased political pressure on a republican party desperate to end the shutdown and too cowardly to cross the president on this signature idea that, by the way, they all know is done. you know they think it's dumb because from the moment he announced he w...

Of the reason. >> exactly. if it looks like duck and quacks like a duck, then it might be a duck. so part of what we're dealing here is that there's been the system saying -- and i completely agree with people coming out and we're really angry with steve king and maybe we're going to primary him but put your actions where your words are. put your money where your mouth is. are you actually going to do something about it? because what's happening is as we see people denouncinging what steve king is saying rhetorically, we're also seeing them endorse the very same policies that underlie these wo...

The actual details aren't really the wall and in another context, this would be perfectly uncontroversial and bipartisan and democrats aren't doing it because they hate the president. >> that's not the case. we want to reopen the government. we don't think any president should hold the country hosturg for any demand. we should reopen the government and we've always said we're lap happy to have that conversation. we provided the level of funding the president actually asked for in his budget this year, which was 1.6 billion. >> the president submitts a budge toot congress, correct? >> correct. ...

>> they did not ask for 5.6 billion to build a wall? >> no, that's exactly right. i guess the president's folks want itting norred because he totally changed his own budget. that was passed in the senate appropriations committee. we did add language that it should be restricted to existing barriers and that was supported by the republican senators on the appropriations committee. >> i think this is key because it has gotten lost. there is an appropriations process and lots of it nonkaunlt ruvrlgs. this number of people some stuff you fight over, some you agree on. on this issue they didn't sta...

Budge toot congress, correct? >> correct. >> that budget, which is made mulvaney, presumably the president but who knows. he comes and said this is what i want and they ask for 1.6 billion for border security. >> exactly right. >> they did not ask for 5.6 billion to build a wall? >> no, that's exactly right. i guess the president's folks want itting norred because he totally changed his own budget. that was passed in the senate appropriations committee. we did add language that it should be restricted to existing barriers and that was supported by the republican senators on the appropriations ...