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During the state of the union address, so they decided to reserve it for a moment or a crisis." well, nancy, here's your crisis. what's your audience, is it wavering republicans who by now have forgiven talk of the wall and are ready to get behind steel slats? >> well, i think the audience is twofold, one is the general public, i think that trump is speaking to his base. we saw that with, you know, sean hannity's show tonight. then, too, really a lot of this crescendo as annie and phil have said this week is geared toward congressional republicans. we saw republicans this week like senator sus...

Be a fraught act of brinksmanship at the dawn of a newly divided government sparking a firestorm with house democrats and certain challenges in federal courts. but trump believes forcing a dramatic reckoning by executive action may be necessary given the democratic resistance and the wall's symbolic power for his core voters, officials said." more on that in a bit. tomorrow afternoon, the v.p. and trump's head of homeland security will head to the hill to tend to republicans and here's how fraught the politics are. politico reporting tonight house republican leaders fear increasing numbers of ...

But there's simply no factual basis in that. we've heard from union leaders representing various federal worker unions say that that's not the case at all. that many of these workers are suffering, as you saw in that interview with vaughn hillyard out in colorado, and are impacted in negative ways by this. it's not just the workers, by the way. we're now into the third week of this shutdown. we're starting to see impacts in communities. impacts on people's lives. national parks are in real distress right now. there's been a mishap over at the housing and urban development department that could...

Been building behind closed doors with staffers over the weekend, with democratic staffers and republican staffers on the hill. with reporters today in a briefing with this trip to the border later this week. they're also trying to, you know, shore up republican support who, fearing that republicans could defect and vote for the house bill to re-open parts of the government. they want to create this growing sense of urgency about a crisis. >> nancy, as you know, this will be the president's first address from the oval office as president. for all those who think such things are reserved on a n...

Republicans to stay in a bloc. they don't want republicans to start falling in line with the democrats and suggesting that the funding bill should pass and the shutdown should end. >> phil, you and i've had many discussions at this hour of the night on this president's empathy challenges. >> yeah. >> having said that, he's now talking about these regular folks. upwards of 800,000 of breadwinners who get their check from the federal government. 80% of whom live outside the washington, d.c., area. where, phil, is he getting the notion that he enjoys high levels of support for his efforts in cont...