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Who had expressed frustration at the president's strategy, who had said they didn't want a shutdown at all, that they wanted to find a way out. they had been working since wednesday night on a proposal that would essentially trade daca protections on a temporary basis for the money that president trump asked for for the wall. that deal fell completely apart. why? because president trump rejected it. how did the top senator who is working out this deal feel? take a listen to lindsey graham. >> i have never been more depressed about moving forward than i am right now. i just don't see a pathway ...

There was going to be a solution to the government shutdown, but hope because at least people were talking. to be specific, a group of republican senators, senators who had expressed frustration at the president's strategy, who had said they didn't want a shutdown at all, that they wanted to find a way out. they had been working since wednesday night on a proposal that would essentially trade daca protections on a temporary basis for the money that president trump asked for for the wall. that deal fell completely apart. why? because president trump rejected it. how did the top senator who is w...

It. out of the top senator who is working out this deal feel? take a listen to lindsey graham. >> i have never been more depressed about moving forward than i am right now. i just don't see a pathway forward. somebody is going to like get some energy to fix this. >> reporter: and graham in that statement is really kind of talking for all 535 members of congress, at least those that i've spoken with over the last couple days. there is recognition that there is no clear pathway out. both parties are entrenched that their positions are not moving and at the near term, there is no legislative solu...

Wall. let's go to the white house. what's the state of play? what is the latest that you are hearing about the president's inclination, his threshold to declare this national emergency? >> reporter: there is a lot of talk about the president either declaring a national emergency or using some other similar tools to divert money from one part of the government to another to fund the wall. but what is partially driving this in addition to president trump being very interested in doing this is republicans on capitol hill, many of his allies really losing hope in the prospect that the negotiations...

Government shutdown today -- and i feel like we're taking our focus off of this -- is because the president is afraid of fox news. >> you know who is on, mr. president? it is on the backs of all of us. >> i have never been more depressed about moving forward than right now. i just don't see a pathway forward. >> i bet it is pay day for a lot of americans, but it's not for 800,000 federal workers who the government shut down, now tied for the longest in u.s. modern history. nine crucial federal departments are still being affected by the shutdown. agriculture, commerce, homeland security, housi...