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Continue in washington over border security. here's abc zohreen shah. >> reporter: tonight, texas governor greg abbott defending these controversial comments he made about migrants on a conservative radio show. >> we are deploying every tool and strategy that we possibly can. the only thing that we are not doing is we're not shooting people who come across the border because, of course, the biden administration would charge us with murder. >> reporter: after backlash, the governor now attempting to clarify. >> i explained in detail all the different things that texas is doing that we have the ...

Being drafted by speech write who are have gone in made tweaks after he wanted to toughen some of the language aimed at democrats. that raises the possibility we'll see the president act much more combative tonight than what the white house has been forecasting to reporters over the last several days. ma mr. trump is annoyed with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer over border security and the wall the president wants. the white house official says the president is not expected to declare a state of emergency. that is expected to remain an option on the table for the president until the next fundin...

>> here's the thing. first all of federal workers do believe in the work they do and they don't want to act irsponsally. the respaupsable thing is to pass the spending bills that have already passed. there are republicans who are rumbling and it is going to compel mitch mcconnell to bring those bills up for a vote. and then do the legislative work. if the president doesn't want to sign the bills or wants to veto those bills, he can do that but the federal government will open because those bills will have passed the house and the senate and there would be an override of that veto. there is an ...

The responsible thing is to pass the bills. there are republicans and you hear them rumbling, and it's going to compel mitch mcconnell to bring those bills up for a vote. then do the legislative work. if the president doesn't want to sign the bills or wants to veto those bills, he can do that, but the federal government will open because those bills will have passed the house and the senate. i think there would be an override of that veto. there is an offramp here, and the offramp is to open government by passing the spending bills. negotiate later if you want to over border security. democrat...

Doesn't that move people? >> people don't want to do the responsible thing. the responsible thing is to pass the bills. there are republicans and you hear them rumbling, and it's going to compel mitch mcconnell to bring those bills up for a vote. then do the legislative work. if the president doesn't want to sign the bills or wants to veto those bills, he can do that, but the federal government will open because those bills will have passed the house and the senate. i think there would be an override of that veto. there is an offramp here, and the offramp is to open government by passing the s...