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Process. picks up all of this. julian zeletzer, senior political analyst. so nice to have you here. >> good morning. >> trying to get the iranians to talk. he's offered no preconditions. what is the trump strategy? >> this all started with the end of the obama agreement with iran which set us on a path to conflict. i'm not sure there is a strategy. this is a day-to-day responsive plan. the question is can the president himself pull back from that? what's his position? >> our allies are confused. they're confused. >> it's almost as if we had some deals with our allies to do

The trump administration really has essentially put in place the epa administrator, scott pruitt to be replaced if he pass the full senate by andrew wheeler. it's a case of meet the new boss. it's the same thing what wheeler is going to do. to basically eliminate the climate protections and put us on a path to further exploitation of fossil fuels. >> what the trump administration has done that has been harmful to the environment and harmful policies since the last state of union address last year. we will follow right up with helpful environmental policies. you can see the list, one such bigge...

Willing to negotiate. he had the vice president here the last two weekends meeting with members, meeting with members of staff, trying to move the ball down the field and get us on a path where we can get a solution and the answer today to the president's question and that is exactly how it was phrased and that is, speaker pelosi, if i were to open up the government today, 30 days from now, would you support any funding for border security, for a wall? and she said no. i think the president clearly interpreted that as he rightly should have as clear evidence the democrats have no interest righ...

Of not being able to negotiate but the president has been more than willing to negotiate. meeting with members of staff, trying to move the ball down the field and get us on a path for a solution. the answer today to the president's question, is that speaker pe he will eer pelosi,n the government 30 days from now would you support funding for border security. she said no and the president interrupted that as he rightly should have that the democrats have no interest right now in trying to solve this problem. they clearly want the political issue. >>. >> where do you go from here? >> first of a...

Houses of congress. the next time we vote will be on the agreement, not another test vote. so with that, i yield back. >> mr. president. >> the senator from tennessee. >> mr. president, i ask consent, following my remarks the senator from delaware, senatbe recogniz. i want to thank the leaders for their discussions, the vice president. i thank him for his presence here today. in my own view, a government shutdown ought not to be a part of budget negotiations any more than chemical weapons should be a part of warfare. we were elected to make the government run for taxpayers, not to shut it down...