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Senate couldn't pass the bill, they couldn't commence any democrats to vote yes. audibly democrats and independents who voted five years ago for hundreds of miles of new border barrier, 34 of them still work here. >> bret: peter doocy, thank you. republican congressman steve king is fighting back against a "new york times" article, he says it suggest he is an advocate for white nationalism and white supremacy. here's the quote from "the new york times." "they hunted that language, how did they become offensive? " that prompted this response. these comments are important and racist and should h...

The president couldn't pass his wall when the republicans controlled the house and the senate because they knew it was a bad idea. >> i don't see how it -- i mean, the democrats have said they are not going to spend a dollar. not one dollar on a physical boundary and i don't think the president -- president trump and mulvane and republican former colleagues i don't think they are going to capitulate to use lindsey's word on pass an appropriations bill that doesn't have funding for it. >> kristin fisher leads our coverage this hour on the hill. day 18 of the shutdown. what are democrats doing t...

I imagine the president will say, that's what you said two weeks ago or three weeks ago and the house passed the bill you said they couldn't pass. >> he already said that. he said nancy pelosi was wrong when she said republicans don't support this because thigh supported the measure in the house. that said, i don't think republicans are supportive of a shutdown for the record. they don't want to see employees not get their paychecks. they don't want to deal with the o optics of this. i think, although he thinks republicans are on his side, there's less support among the margins. >> the cold tr...

Base rallies toward. and they were willing to short circuit a bipartisan deal that was reached in the senate, put on the floor by senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and passed unanimously. and then with allies in the house, move forward on a bill they knew couldn't pass in the senate that had that $5 billion for the wall. there are negotiations that are ongoing. vice president mike pence, mick mulvaney, jared kushner were on the hill for a couple of hours shuttling back and forth between offices trying to find a path forward. behind the scenes on the negotiations, what i've been told, ther...

Figure out a path forward at some point. when it comes to how did we get here, it's actually pretty simple. it's political incentives. i think the president and the white house made clear, the president specifically, that they were going to have this fight that the president promised he was going to have, that he campaigned on, that he believes is his issue that the base rallies toward. and they were willing to short circuit a bipartisan deal that was reached in the senate, put on the floor by senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and passed unanimously. and then with allies in the house, mov...