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To be a long shutdown. capitol hill has been a ghost town with both sides digging in with the new congress, most lawmakers headed home to work out a deal but so far democratic leaders are refusing to negotiate with the white house. nancy pelosi's office released a statement saying democrats offered 3 options to open government and strong, sensible border security but not the president's in moral, expensive wall. democrats will elect a new speaker once they take control wednesday. republicans claim nancy pelosi refused to negotiate until after she wins the job. if that happens democrats are exp...

And the things that jeh was talking about. let me add one more thing. i'm from border security. i didn't meet a democrat us served in congress for nine terms who was against border security. who would be against it? i'm for sensible border security and not just on the southern border. more terrorists have tried to come into the u.s. from the northern border. >> you served in the cabinet as secretary of homeland security. we just had had one of those rare things in washington, which was the resident gnation of a ct member. what was your take on it? did you have in your mind when you served was ...

I think the democrats want security, too. we started off with saying we want security also. everybody wants security. and then we can go to comprehensive later on and maybe that is a longer subject. a bigger subject. i think we can get that done too at a later date. >> mr. president, i'm the senator from highway highway and only immigrants serving in the u.s. senate, i would like to get to immigration reform, but what i'm hearing around the table right now is a commitment to resolving the daca situation because there is a sense of urgency. now, you have put it out there that you want $18 billi...

Border security. >> jeff? >> let me just echo here. those of us who said comprehensive reform, that was seven months of every night negotiating staff on weekends. a lot of things we are talking about on border security and the interior things have trade offs. we made those during that process. i don't see how we get there before march 5th. >> that's why we are making a phase two. we do a phase one which is daca and security and phase two which is comprehensive immigration. we should go right to it. i really do. we do and then the other, but we go right to it. yes? >> i think it's important to ...

The president sending conflicting signals whether he wants them to stay or wants boerdser security as part of the deal. it's unclear whether or not a wall, building a wall along the u.s.-mexico border would be part of the initial arrangement or save it for comprehensive reform which the president said he wants down the road. i'm wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our viewers from around the world. let's go to jim acosta. you listened closely and i have to give the president a lot of credit for allowing the cameras in there for this remarkable meeting. i covered the white house and ...