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>> i'm glad the president is reconsidering. look, julie, we all want the soldiers to come home. the worst thing we can do is pull out of there too fast, leave the situation unstable and then have to send them back in. so, at the end of the day, we can fight these wars over there. we can fight them in places like kabul and damascus or it can follow us home to places like kansas city. what we're dealing with is an under lying premise that i disagree with, that if we just let the folks in the region fight this out, that we can pull our soldiers out and they'll take care of it and it won't follow ...

The russian ministry of foreign affairs claims bitina is a political prisoner of the u.s. type of campaign the russian government is usually the target of. >> julie: at the time, i guess at the same time, putin is reaching out to the president. i can't imagine what he has to say about this. >> reporter: the president said president putin wrote a letter to president trump with a christmas meeting. russian president's office said putin stressed that russia/u.s. relations are the most important factor behind ensuring strategic stability and international security and reaffirmed that russia is ope...

How he said, enhance border security is a good way to keep out illegal immigration. >> julie: is it fair to say the real aim is for house democrats to give the president and congress more time to negotiate a deal over border funding? >> no doubt. spot on analysis. although a cynics view might be this is part of posturing and maybe even a bit of public pandering knowing full well that the senate on the republican side will not allow this to go forward. however, i think it's also important to point this out. democrats know that the shutdown is not good for them long term, right? prankly, it's no...

Not. look, no wall funding, no deal. behind the scenes you will see people say we're hopeful something will work out. let me take you to twitter and share a bit of what the president is saying. this comes as a surprise. i'm in the oval office. democrats, come back from vacation now and give us the votes necessary for border security, including the wall. you voted yes in 2006 and 2013. one more yes with me in office, i'll get it built and fast. now, the president said today in the oval office, that could mean in the oval office in general as in i have been working in toefl office or it could me...

Considering the relationship between the president and schumer? >> yeah. well, look. they both are former members of the house. they're both people with experience on capitol hill. but they're constrained. they're constrained by the fact that, you put your finger on it. nancy pelosi had a challenge of becoming speaker because she has a left wing caucus element of her caucus that is clearly not going to be excited about coming to a deal on the department of homeland security budget and about additional fencing or a wall along the border. so she's got to wait until she gets past her election her...