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Will the president go it at mat and insist on funding his border wall as part of the stop gap government funding measure? >> dana it goes without saying the president has been pretty straightforward about his desire and the need for a border wall. so i would suspect el' do the right thing or i would suspect he will be insistent on the funding. >> sounds like the president is ready for a fight. with just days until a possible government shutdown, the president added funding for that wall along with the mexican border as part of his demands but will it work? with me now to talk about this and mu...

>> democrats are not going to be doing anything to pep. let's just be honest, angela, on this one. but the other factor of this is they need to keep the government funded. they need to pass some kind of stop gap, continuing resolution, whatever you want to call it, funding bill by the end of the week. you know how the hill works. can they do both things at once? >> i think it's nearly impossible. kate, you said earlier in the broadcast that this bill is still being workshopped. if they're still negotiating legislative text, members are not going to have an opportunity to review this bill befor...

Party, you know a party who is willing to say, okay, $1.4 billion for a wall. this is a party five years ago saying, okay, we're not going to give out flood relief or disaster relief unless there's a way that you can offset that cost and now we're talking about 1.4 billion for a wall that eventually some day will be paid for by mexico. >> that's bipartisan with regard to who is in the white house, congress -- look, their main job, when all is said and done, their main job is to fund the government and for year after year after year they haven't done it well. they haven't done it at all. they h...

Problem in syria which as you know is a multi-faceted problem on that side of the border. the united nations saying this weekend that because the cease-fire is mostly holding there, it could open the door for political solution to the civil war. you buy that? >> no. i don't. the cease-fire is holding in certain areas but if you look in the area in the central part of the country, we still see the kurds and the syrians and the free syria army going at each other on their way to ridding isis. although it's holding in certain areas it's really not holding throughout the country. it's just a tem...

Too big and it is also collapsing under its own weight. >> jesse: too big to fail. >> kennedy: of medicaid were so great and the answer to everything, then that could be the stop gap until you have replacement legislation, and systems in place. >> that is an interesting idea. >> kennedy: that is one of the things that republicans had come up block grants medicaid to the states, and let the states and figure out how best to issue that money to the people who are living there, and also have health insurance accounts that you can sell across state lines. >> one thing that is happening for sure th...