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Guard. they inter dict drugs, and right now some of them are working without pay and some of them aren't working. come friday people are going to start missing paychecks, including agencies we need to help us fight the scourge of drugs coming in. >> so i guess the answer is no, you didn't hear any openings for democrats to have more negotiation with the president today? >> so far we're note n hearing anything from him on that. but i would say this. we put dramatic money on the table last february and you turned it down. that shows that we're serious. >> just so show what the administration has...

Definitely going to ask him those questions and how really i don't make a determination about how i'm going to vote on a nominee until after the hearing, how i'm going to vote on the nominee is going to depend on the entire hearing. i think those questions are going to be some of the most important. >> let's talk about the government shutdown and the president's speech last night. the president made his case for why he thinks a border wall is so important. but he also brought up things that we've been hearing about on both sides. an appeal for more beds. he's called it a humanitarian crisis, w...

That -- that there's any problem with the probe. i think that rosenstein who's been working with mueller, overseeing mueller, i think mueller's an adult, i think he understands what the timetable looks like and what the politics are like here in terms of just going forward with his job. i think everybody understands that. and i think, as you said, john, the questions now for barr will just be will you let him finish his job? and i think that will be the commitment that they try to get out of him. >> and it will be interesting to see if senators, particularly republican senators, demand an answ...

So does the fact that he is ready to leave mean that he thinks that bill barr can, you know, successfully oversee this? >> hard to say. i have a real hard time interpreting the news that you've just broken in terms of what it means. but what i do know is this with certainty. the stakes of the judiciary committee hearing and in particular the inquiries to the nominee about what he will do with this investigation, will he allow it to complete? he will enable it to have the resources it needs, and he will make sure that the results are available to congress and the american public, those question...