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Side. do you think republicans will get behind the president or will they say this is a step too far? this threatens the institutions of our country to do this? where do you think your republican colleagues will fall? >> it's hard to say. they've followed this president in ways that i would not have expected several years ago. you know, they're still kind of afraid of him, and mark sanford, congressman from south carolina who did stand up to the president and lost a primary is one of the biggest reasons why. they're afraid of the president coming in and challenging them in a primary even if th...

He's okay with fencing. word choice here. >> i and other democrats and a lot of republicans will vote for smart border security. now you can have border security that's a combination of physical barriers, whatever they may be. >> so a fence is on the table for you? some kind of fencing? you would pay for that? >> well, there's fencing -- there's fencing now. >> yes. >> at the border. there's always been fencing at the border so some kind of fencing is always part of the equation. >> does the word matter to you? would you vote for a fence but not a wall, congresswoman? >> look, actions matter m...

Rashida tlaib. coming woman, thank you for being with me. i know you have votes. it's been nearly a week since you made those remarks. are you surprised it is still being talked about so much? >> very much so. i can tell you, you know, i'm very unapologetically me. i know people back home that i've represented for six years in the state legislature in michigan are kind of used to my realness, used to this passion and -- that i have. i know for many people it did -- it did get the best of me at that moment and for many people it might have been very much a distraction. that's what i'm really wa...

I want. let's listen to the cops on the front lines. the law enforcement officers of customs and border protection, they tell us overwhelmingly that they want a border wall and they want more border security. >> patrick, is the president tonight going to change the tune? are we going to hear about the 4,000? are we going to hear about the terrorists? of course we're going to hear about these things. >> we're going to hear about all of these things. i mean, we've heard kellyanne conway, mike pence, steve, others, there's a lot of different messages. it's terrorists, it's coming over the souther...

Steve. what does he do if he loses the fight that he has picked, right? getting my 5.6 and then? if it is reopened and then we'll debate it. how does he try to spin that? >> well, i think he has to convince those squish republicans, and that's really what i would call them, to get a backbone. you can't negotiate from that kind of weakness. you'll have no leverage then once the government is reopened. more importantly what he's doing is speaking to the people. most of those senators, not murkowski, will respond to their constituents on the republican side are still kwarlly behind the president ...