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>> well, it's a mistake for the president to declare this a national emergency. he ought to be collaborating with members of congress to focus on smart border security measures. he's obsessed with the wall. members of congress, democrats and republicans alike, are very focused on border security, and what we can do to ensure that our borders are sound, that they're protected, and so forth. but this obsession with the wall isn't helping anybody, and frankly, holding 800,000 federal employees hostage to this idea of a wall is not really smart leadership on the part of the president. that's why d...

Re-election issue. but, as far as a shutdown issue in the here and now, democrats clearly feel they have an advantage here because not too long ago the president sat in the oval office and with all the cameras running, said "i will shut down the government. i will take the credit for it. i'm going to do it because border security is so important. so, the democrats feel that the president is pretty much already taken the blame for this. and they can push as hard as they like. question will be, once everybody gets back in washington, in the new year, whether the president and republicans will be...

Associates that he is glad democrats won the house in last month's midterm elections, saying he thinks that guarantees his re-election because they will serve as a useful antagonist." and the president tweeted "this is about the dems not letting donald trump and republicans have the win. they may have the ten senate votes, but we have the issue, border security 2020." gene robinson, the way he's talking there, and we'll see, but the way he's talking there suggests this may be a president who is comfortable letting this stretch out farther into the future than maybe we initially thought, well i...

I think you have the market truly up. what is going to happen today? i don't really know but i think the news out there is relatively positive. we have jerome powell who is going to remain on the fed. that appears to have been taking their foot off the gas related to interest rates. i think there is progress being made with china which is important as far as the trade war goes so i think there's pretty good news out there and congress ultimately is going to deal with this shutdown issue and there will be a compromise. >> you mentioned the fed. there were so many rumors going back and forth the...

President in the white house on the shutdown issue and then i want to talk about this syria backlash. let's start with the shutdown. what's up? >> reporter: i was determined to get you a definitive answer about whether president trump would actually sign this short-term cr. i was determined. i have to tell you, i don't have an answer yet. white house officials say, they're trying to get clarity on this. we are reiterating what we've heard over the past 24 hours, that the president will want to review this bill before he signs it. it's a pretty basic bill, though. >> right. >> essentially keeps...