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Patience for the shutdown among gop senators is wearing thin with multiple republican lawmakers now signaling that they favor reopening the government as border negotiations continue. >> these are people who work hard and they deserve to know that they're going to be paid. >> the president heads to capitol hill today to attend a traditional tuesday policy luncheon with republicans. on thursday he's expected to fly down to the southern border for what is likely to be another sales pitch for his wall. john, back to you. >> all right. joe johns for us at the white house. another new development o...

Democrats would agree to $1.3 billion in additional funding for border security. >> yeah. >> that doesn't include the wall, they did agree to that much and many have indicated on our show they would agree to more that that if it did include a wall, you concede that point? >> absolutely. but they supported fencing before trump was president. >> i understand that. but i'm trying to figure out where we are and where we go from here. i listen to every word you say very carefully. wuchblt first reasons you said the president's speech was effective was because it focused on other things besides the ...

For our lives protest here in washington. but president trump here going into his second year with approval ratings that are probably as close as you can get to where he was at the very beginning of his tenure. as he believes, the economy is a big part of this. the stock market doing fairly well and economic confidence fairly high right now alisyn and chris. >> thank you very much, alisyn and i were negotiating what elements go when. >> i get this one. >> best part of the show. i'm 0 for 2,050. let's get into it with john avilan and jeffrey tubin. >> the first metric would be ratings. 22 milli...

President and individual who is trying to get a statement out or approved. it would be in the common course that that person could have been like hope hicks or sarah huckabee sanders or somebody else. >> but in your experience, did john jr. have access to his dad, did they communicate a lot? >> of course. my children have access to me. i'm sure everyone's children has access to them. from what i understand of this particular issue, this is when the president was on air force one returning from a long overseas trip. so of course he would have had access. the question is would it have been somet...

Racial debt. the problem is it is also passing a fiscally irresponsible tax cut. they are focusing on medicare and medicaid. that's a big deal. and putting aside infrastructure reform. that is the side. they are focusing on to try to square the circle. >> what is surprising is that ryan would show his hand on something that could be so potentially damaging. that's going to be a tough sell. >> karoun, john, thank you. donald trump jr. refusing to tell lawmakers what he discussed with his father about the trump tower meeting with the russians. why can't he talk about the conversation with his ...