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Twitter, "we will be forced to close the southern border entirely if the obstructionist democrats do not give us the money to finish the wall and also change the ridiculous immigration laws that our country is saddled with. hard to believe there was a congress and president who would approve." in a string of additional tweets, trump doubled down on the threat saying, "i would consider closing the southern border a profit-making operation." in a separate tweet the president issued a warning that "a new caravan is forming." trump's incoming chief of staff, acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, t...

Acts as speaker caving to donald trump on a wall that the american people don't want just because 30% of americans who support donald trump want it. >> i guess that's the question then, from a democratic standpoint if we say for republicans how committed is the base to a tangible, physical wall, i guess the question for the democrats is for their base looking at this fight, ben, what would define caving in? because you've got the situation where trump is saying $5 billion for the wall. the democrats are saying $1.3 billion for fencing, not a wall. they're saying fencing along the border. now y...

Legislation in the new congress, is going to be over this fight. and also there's been another tactical problem here and that is half the government, more than half, has been funded by appropriations bills that actually made it to the president's desk. because the armed services committee had their act together, for example, they're fully funded through the end of the fiscal year. so we're not in the middle of a shutdown. we're in the middle of a partial shutdown where people -- the post office is open, the military is operational, dhs is closed but tsa is open and screening people. so really ...

That this is the latest sign that he is just not backing down from his demands. this is just putting his foot on the pedal trying to get the democrats to agree to money to fund the wall. the latest sign that they are just in this intractable position and aren't planning to move from it. other administration officials have met with democratic leaders over the past week, last saturday, and offered -- hinted that there could be room for negotiation. this is the president saying he really doesn't mind keeping the government shut down and he's going to fight for the wall. >> so if it's a sign of in...

That threat. he hasn't done it yet. i didn't hear of any planning for this. more this was just a threat of how serious he is about getting that $5 billion for his wall. >> david frum, i guess that gets to another question here. just in terms of trump's posture on this, we know how central that promise of a wall was to his campaign, this supposedly being his bottom line. i guess one of the questions is so much of this is about that trump base that got behind him, stood with him. how much to them is the wall a physical, tangible promise, something that has to be there at the end of trump's term?...