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Behalf of not only republicans that wanted the president to sign this, but also some of his own aides, the legislative affairs director and the dhs secretary who were meeting with the president in the oval office, trying to go over the positive aspects of this bill to convince the president that he needed to sign it to avoid a shutdown. >> jeffrey toobin, i will play clips. these are republicans expressing their deep concerns about the president declaring a national emergency in order to get the money toed by his wall. >> the national emergencies that have been issued in the past have not been...

Bill we're voting on tonight, dls d dhs is one piece. there are several other agencies that we haven't funded. those bills were negotiated conference. the house and senate came to a bipartisan agreement on this back before the election. we could have had a victory back then. we should have taken -- made the decision to finish our appropriations process before the election. because of the loss of 40 votes, our negotiating position was more difficult. i think my republican colleagues that were involved in the negotiation, the fact that this wasn't being done and negotiated in the public, that th...