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You and mitch mcconnell need to go ahead and sign off on these bills, give us our back pay and let us go ahead and dig out from the mess that you put us in. you are going to get your wall, but guess what we get? we get back bills. you get a wall, you get your money, but you know what we get? we got our bills that we got to pay in the back. now you're talking about there may be another shutdown? we're not even finished digging out from the first shutdown. >> faye, i think it's not pretty clear that there is not going to be another shutdown, that donald trump's afraid of doing that again, and th...

Knowing that he has not yet won the final negotiating point that he is struggling with in the deal. that is the question of backed pay for workers who are not directly paid by the federal government. those workers suffered every bit as much as the 800,000 federal government employees who didn't receive a paycheck during the 35-day government shutdown. a new survey shows that 62% of federal employees and contractors depleted all or most of their emergency savings. 49% fell behind on bills. 27% missed a mortgage or a rent payment. 26% had to borrow from retirement savings. and 25% used a food ba...

>> the king of debt. >> repeatedly. do you expect the king of debt to be one of the trump slogans during the re-election campaign? >> i mean, that one's going to stick. >> yeah. >> because he is the king of debt. and you might have seen a piece just came out by larry summers and jason furman in which they show that if you take out the bush tax cuts and the trump tax cuts, we would basically have a balanced budget today. the reason why the debt has been growing, accumulating and we're paying interest been is precisely because we had these huge tax cuts that we are going to continue to have to p...

There is no trump wall. there will be no trump wall. but donald trump cannot stop talking about the wall that exists only in his dreams. and here is how donald trump insulted the intelligence of american voters today. >> we're building as we speak in the most desperately needed areas, and it's a big wall. it's a strong wall. it's a wall that people aren't going through very easy. you're going to have to be in extremely good shape to get over this one. they would be able to climb mount everest a lot easier, i think. >> there's no wall. not one word of that was true. and everyone knows that. dur...

>> -- whether your back pay is going to be in this legislation and if the democrats held to the position that they were holding to this afternoon, then your back pay will be in there. we will know that as soon as we have it from them. faye smith, thank you very much for joining us and explaining what this has been like for people. really appreciate it. >> thank you. thank you. thanks you, president trump. >> thank you, faye. when we come back, the white house has been trying to keep reporters from seeing president trump's private schedules, but they've been leaking. they have been trying to ...