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It is our turn. >> reporter: it all presents a new landscape for president trump, who now has to negotiate with the democratic-led house led of course by a woman. house speaker nancy pelosi has stood up to president trump in public before at that oval office meeting before christmas. the question for today, whether that same dynamic is going to play out at their white house meeting this morning. >> quite a day for history, that's for sure. besides reopening the government, house democrats are planning to tackle a number of other issues in the new congress. the new house judiciary chair jerry...

And optimism particularly from the newly-elected members, and we are headed into the new congress with the shadow of day 13 of the a government shutdown with no end in sight. democrats have not budged from the $1.3 billion in border security they offered the president, and they are not going to fund any extra for the wall. the president likes the $5.6 billion for the wall that house republicans were able to give him last year, but we are in a new congress. that's a bill that will not pass this house led by democrats. i don't see where the two sides are kind of, you know, where they can come to...

Defending his border policies by tweeting against the democrats and president barack obama. in fact, here's what he wrote. the democrat as policy of child separation on the border during the obama administration was far worse than the way we handle it now. remember the 2014 picture of children in cages. the obama years. however, if you don't separate far more people, will come smugglers use the kids. giving you a chance to assess that claim. is that claim made by the president accurate? >> no. i feel like what we're seeing right now is when someone's thrashing right before they start going und...

Was the boat counters want to let anybody vote or any ballot count. >> what the strongest argument is transparency. how many votes do you still have to count and they couldn't get an answer. that's something they have to reveal and should be able to reveal that we have so many ballots to count. i think that was the most troubling aspects. now i hope the sunshine is on these two counties. hopefully that means it will be more difficult. if anyone did want to do something they would be able to. let's hope for a legitimate outcome here. >> there are a couple of races to be decided. we know that pr...

Democrat from massachusetts. dick durbin said earlier in the program about not your daddy's gop. as someone who served in the 1990s during another house led, republican house caucus with newt gingrich and so forth, do you think there's been backsliding, erosion on basic consensus support for basic safety net programs? >> yes, and it began with gingrich. remember, newt gingrich undermined the former republican leader, bob michael, a mainstream conservative because he was too close to tip o'neill. they weren't snarling at each other. and, yeah, what you have is a real -- you have a reversion now...