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You what, i am proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck. i will take the mantle. i will be the one to shut it down. i'm not going to blame you for it. the last time you shut it down, it didn't work. >> in his own words there, the president saying he'll take full responsibility for the government shut down. we take to you the senate floor. there's patrick leahy. let's hear what he's saying. opioid epidemic, critical infrastructure, rebuild our crumbling roads, bridges and highway. they provide resources to protect the environment, help ensure the water we bring, the air we b...

Has quit in protest. mike, to you with the senate being in session, is there any sign of progress over this partial shutdown there on the senate floor? >> well, alex, we did hear from mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer when the senate opened at noon in washington here today, and really we've been through this so many times, alex, as you've outlined. there's sort of a pattern that beau sides fall into. neither side wants to be seen as walking away from the negotiations. chuck schumer said there have been talks behind scenes. at the same time it's clear the democrats feel they do have the upper h...

Is there anybody out there that believes mexico will pay for this wall? i'm sure you believe the colorful language used by the former president of mexico and the current president saying that's not happening of this wall. and i think that's part of what's weighing on this president, it might have dawned on him that he was going to go to other agencies o find that money and, hey, once nancy pelosi becomes speaker of the house, i need to down down and s see. >> my executive producer in my ear told me chuck schumer is now meeting with vice president pence at the white house request, and that is h...

Behind-the-scenes negotiations were going on with mike pence and jared kushner and mick mulvaney, the gavel cannot go down and it's clear they do not have the votes to pass $5.7 billion that the president wants for border wall or border slats or whatever the rhetorical device is they're using at this point is. as i mentioned, chuck schumer was on the senate floor giving his version of what's happening behind closed doors. >> the president's destructive two-week temper tantrum, demanding the american taxpayer pony up for an expense ive and ineffective border wall the president promised mexico w...

He's demanding $5 billion for the wall that he promised mexico would pay for it and the democrats are saying, no, drop your demand for a wall. chuck schumer said on the senate floor earlier this morning, it's plain and simple, you don't get the government open until you drop your demand for the wall. >> i don't see mexico anywhere in this equation far but, y yamiche, an estimate said the entire wall would cost $20 billion plus. where does this stand in the big pantheon here? >> the president is playing to conservative media hosts. he settled on the idea he would