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We head down pennsylvania avenue to the capitol for the other part of the story. kristin. kristin: as we've been saying. as of today this partial government shutdown is now the longest closure in u.s. history and it enters its 22nd day. and with no solution in sight, the effects of the shutdown are now really hitting home for the roughly 800,000 federal employees who missed their first paychecks just yesterday. so david joins us live with the latest and david, this has to be ramping up the pressure on both sides now exponentially. >> we hit the longest shutdown mark at midnight. it's been a gr...

We want congress to succeed and we want the american people to succeed as well. leland: certainly that is the argument from the other side although some democrats are even more extreme to the left of conceivably where you are. alexandria ocasio-cortez. take a listen. >> every day, immigrants commit crimes at a far lower rate than native-born americans and not only that, but the women and children on that border that are trying to seek refuge and seek opportunity in the united states of america, with nothing but the shirt on their backs, are acting more american than any person who seeks to kee...

Issue in terms of how you're looking at it for continuing to demand funding for a wall, border security, call it what you will. these are the sound bites that are going to start coming on the other side. friday was the first missed federal worker paycheck, pay period, and we have this souped bite from a worker. take a listen. >> i have a mortgage. i have two children, my wife is also a federal worker. any bill that any person would pay, medical bills, paying for food, it's all coming out of savings right now and that's really difficult. leland: you worry about the effect of so many more sound ...

Is a winning argument as opposed to surrender. in 2018 at the end of the midterms, they tried to turn it to an argument of border security and republicans lost 40 seats in the house. >> the republicans in the house lost, a lot of those republicans were big supporters of the agenda that president trump im bodies. president trump came in with a specific promise. i'm going to secure the border. and -- >> his specific language was i'm going to build the wall and mexico is going to pay for it. >> yes. and he's going to secure the border. there are a lot of things we need to do but i agree, we need ...

Daca for the wall. and some type of path to citizenship for x number of billions. that is a compromise you're okay with them making? >> i mean, if you talk to certain politicians, i'm sure, but activists to the california democratic party like me, we have no interest in that because now what you're doing is -- leland: activist and republican activists have no interest in that either. >> well, if you want to talk about as a california democratic party delegate, what we see you doing by pushing this is weaponizing refugees and people seeking asylum against daca recipients which is simply immoral...