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>> reporter: you can take cues that the democrats came out of the meeting feeling empowered. what they are offering right now is maintaining the current level of funding on border security. the president has made clear he wants $5 billion. the things i heard repeatedly from republicans and democrats yesterday, the game is to blame the other side for the shut down. it would be his fault that he would take the blame for it. it is considered a rhetorical win for democrats. obviously, senator schumer making clear democrats aren't backing down. that meeting yesterday as electric or as much of a blo...

World war ii. they don't want to hear that they are a foe. really, the foe for them is russia. and the concern that russia in its strong state where it is now, and feeling empowered will try to make a move, a power play move, territorial move on them. they don't want to see that happen. it's important to have the united states stand behind its european allies firmly. yes we do have issues on a variety of fronts with the germans and french. but that's not the same league as what we have with moscow. eric: russia is the foe. good to see you as always. arthel? arthel: days ahead of the president'...

He came ou it, you know, feeling empowered. >> look at those interviews that you just played with larry kudlow and with peter navarro really on the same page as the president going canadian prime minister. so this was a strategic -- no matter what pompeosays, if you take the surrogates at their word, this was part of the strategy. i think what's interesting though is to assess what political consequences back home the president faces on this. he hasn't faced many. john mccain was one of the few republicans that stood up and pushed bac against this. lindsey graham, interestingly enough, on the ...

Listen, i'll time frozen camera there. you were talking about you want to run on a platform of empowerment. do you think that's a message that willalabama? >> absolutely. i've been talking to voters throughout the congressional third district and that's what people are about. opportunity, working together through unity and feeling empowered. i'm taking the work i've been doing throughout the country and bringing it here to the congressional third district. >> a number of democratic candidates talked with "usa today" and they're critical, saying the democratic arms are not specifically supporti...

Helicopters around. he's going to go there himself and go to the border. but apparently the weather was not cooperative and that trip got aborted. >> richard, i sort of hate to ask you this but i feel like i have to. is there anything that could really go wrong tonight with the president's speech? is there anything that he could say or do here that would really be dangerous in terms of the threat of the war with north korea, in terms of anything that could threaten our allies in the region? >> reporter: yes and yes. there are many things. we've been speaking to a lot of analysts, military expe...