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Arthel: president trump says he's hoping to meet with china's president xi again this month for another round of trade talks as both sides face a looming march deadline to avoid a sharp increase in tariffs on chinese exports. but negotiations could be complicated by u.s. charges against chinese tech giant huawei. the president commenting on this earlier today. >> we are making a deal. it looks like we're doing very well with making a deal with china. i can tell you this, no two leaders of this country and china have ever been closer than i am with president xi. we have a good chance to make --...

Call that a wall, he can call it a wall. he is referencing it we already have almost 700 miles of wall. so again, is there a place for enhanced fencing? normandy fencing would work. let them have that discussion. >> stopgap government funding runs out in two weeks. the house and senate would have to veal on my deal, so that gives negotiators until february 8 or we will see shutdown part two. >> let's bring in our white house correspondent. let's talk about the border wall here first and sort of -- i mean the president seems to say that he would declare a national emergency, but at the same tim...

Substantial difference in this case. when senator mcconnell went silent and said he was only doing what the president wanted, then we were showing we were not an equal and separate branch of government. we took that vote, and we saw six senators vote with the democratic plan, just three votes short, i think that gave the president the knowledge that this is not just democrats who want something smart, but this is also republicans who want something smart. that's the direction in which we're moving in. >> congressman gregory meeks, thank you for the time for being with us. >> my pleasure. the...

Sides coming to the table or three sides coming to the table and we'll get a compromise. the only compromise that could out of this building has to come from mitch mcconnell and nancy paola giangiaco pelosi and schumer. the president and his team are not fluent and mulvaney never cut a deal on capitol hill. i think that's what we'll see in the next couple of days. >> where is mitch mcconnell? >> right now he's at lunch with mike pence on the other side of the billing. -- building. >> he says there will not be a vote until there is a final global agreement to reopen the government. he's putting...

Heard nancy pelosi say it and i doubt they're going to until they hold the report in their hand. they need to make sure they have enough backing in the senate even if it doesn't work, that they've got cover from the republicans because they need to worry about their moderates, too. mueller's report is more than likely going to come out before this congress, they get more political wind at their backs even if it doesn't work in the senate. but they have to make a calculation of being able to get some republicans on board. and there are republicans out there who are willing to cross trump when i...