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The senate shutting it down and reading green eggs and ham or whatever it was. i mean that's not the way this all is supposed to work and you are absolutely correct that it creates huge vulnerabilities for us when the government is shutdown and federal employees can't be at their jobs, can't be at their stations, can't be at their desks to say nothing of what happens to them when they can't get paid, you know. to anybody who's been in the airport in the last week knows what kind of stress people are under as a result of the shutdown. >> all right, senator, i appreciate your time, thank you. >>...

Promise. >> we have to have a wall in order to have border security. you cannot have border security without a wall. >> the big question tonight, though, remains at what price? and i'm not talking about dollars, okay? tonight the former homeland security officials including trump's own former chief-of-staff john kelly a warning about a security crisis that is having a detrimental effect on america's ability to respond to acts of terror. we're 34 days on a shutdown that could be a matter of life and death and when it comes to the ultimate price of the shutdown, the white house today did not hav...

>> no, no. the demand is -- the democrats demand is not going to work. >> if the shutdown leads to a terror attack that gets americans killed, is the wall worth that, yes or no? >> again, i'm going to say that the democrats need to come to the table. >> abby phillip is "outfront" live at the white house. does the president have a real idea, this whole idea of a large down payment, other alternatives, of what he really wants right now? >> reporter: it's not clear that the white house is really nailed down what his bottom line is or if they do know what it is, they're not really telling anyone i...

Ridiculous. they act like you're going into a bank and do all this. it's not just ross. others in the president's orbit have said this during the shutdown. >> it's not fair to you and we all get that, but this is so much bigger than any one person. it is a little bit of pain but it's going to be for the future of our country. >> huge share of government workers will get to take vacation day between christmas and new year's and we have a shutdown and so they can't go to work and so then they have the vacation, but they don't have to use their vacation days and then they come back and they get t...

This trojan horse of debate about security and they're compromising the health and security of the american worker and family every day that this shutdown goes on. the house has done its job. we have passed bipartisan legislation. i voted on my 11th bill today to move on, to move forward, to fund this government and we need to get to legislating. we have a legislative body for this country and we cannot legislate. we need to have a policy debate about immigration reform, a comprehensive, compassion pathway to citizenship. shut down is not policy, but we can't have that debate while the governm...