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Schumer, senator hillary clinton, senator dianne feinstein were among the 80 members of the u.s. senate who supported george w. bush's secure fencing act in 2005 which authorized the construction of 700 miles of wall there was a recognition you didn't need a wall everyone. west texas, 150 miles long, the u.s. border is about 1100, 1200 feet up in the air. straight up a cliff. you don't need a wall there. there are places where it makes good sense. the united states has built about 650 miles of wall. schumer supported it when we -- when it was offered in 2005. he could easily justify this by sa...

It is a matter of compromise if we can get him to the table and actually start working with us i think we can get there. >> anita: okay, boyd, let me bring you in on this. it seemed like maybe the president has already compromised in terms of what he wants. we started out with a concrete wall. that's what he wanted and now we are seeing pictures of fences with slats. is that compromise? >> i think there is plenty of room for compromise out there. a lot of this is just semantics. a lot of it is just what has been the latest polster approved consultant certified language that for both the left a...

Negotiate, rick. they want to run the clock out. if congress -- if we don't arrive at a solution to this by january 3rd, the democrat majority will replace republican majority and the leverage that the republicans had b by passing a unified bill through the house getting it to the senate will have erased and democrats will have a hand in stopping the wall. you notice, the democrats understand the wall itself is not that popular. polls roughly in the high 30's. border security is very important. you will notice that every time a democrat says i'm against the wall. they say i'm for border securi...

Reasonable about this. by saying look i have said five and i'm willing to settle for less. you offered 1.6. can't we settle some place in the middle? again, the democrats have no incentive whatsoever to negotiate a deal before the end of the year. they want to have him suffer political wound they want to strengthen their hands as democrats come into control of the house. they want to say though their base we are going to take them on next two years and look how we started off with a political win. i wish he had not done the televised meeting from the oval office. never good to see how sausage ...

Last week there was a poll by suffolk for "u.s.a. today" about 42, 43% say the blame for the shut down would fall on the president. 30 percent said it would fall on both parties 20 odd percent said it would fall on democrats. everybody is going to walk away from this tarnished. washington is going to look more dysfunctional and look like it can't get its act together. the president is going toned up, i think, being blamed more in part because as we saw in that exchange in the oval office he said i own iting, i will be proud to do it. >> he did. we have seen fences work. we have seen border wal...