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Promises later. >> the wall just got ten feet taller and we love it. >> reporter: this is interesting, because the voters may not care about the sliding rhetoric and i will be asking them about that when i get back out on the campaign trail in 201 2019, but this is a issue that nancy pelosi joke ed d in an interview that trump is now down to the beaded curtain or something about the the wall. so i expect more of that in the new year as we get out into 2020 and full on a campaign season. >> it is going to be interesting if when with you start to speak to the voters out there or his base whether...

He resolved the trade dispute with china and created a deadline of march 1st, which is ambitious, but if within the first six months trump said we are making progress and show the actual evidence of the progress, a and make a deal with china, and we know that trump could sort of get very little out of a deal and say it is the greatest deal ever, and big beautiful deal and better than it would be, and markets would be massively relieved to get rid of the tariffs. i don't know if he going to do that, because it is an important issue to do, and if he is in a desperate spot, that is something in t...

But steel slats. >> reporter: that sounds different than the pitch over and over to the base. >> i am going to build a wall, and a big beautiful wall, and not a toy wall like we have right now. and it is not a wall, but a little fence that is ten feet tall. i am talking about the wall. you see that ceiling up there, higher. you see that ceiling, it is peanuts. if they get up, they are going, oh, man, how do i get down from this wall. maybe a rope. >> reporter: both in terms of what is in a wall and who is going to the pay for it. >> i say that mexico is going to pay for it, and it is getting t...

>> every month it is paying for itself. >> and as the president has said, and we have all said that the wall is going to be paid for through the savings of trade alone. >> the trade benefits if there are any don't go to the treasury. >> he is saying that the revenue provide and the money provided through the umca deal is going pay for the wall and pay for it four times over. and through that new trade deal, we can pay for the wall. >> do you have the math on that? >> some americans don't want to wait for it. >> we could all pay $20 and pay f for the wall. >> crowd funding. >> yes. >> reporter:...

>> i'm in for andrea mitchell, and we have a lot of news to cover, including a new threat from the president to shut the border as the government enters the seventh day, and both sides are digging in on the funding for the wall. >> it should not be hard to get to where the president wants to be. >> it is going to hurt our economy, and it makes no sense whatsoever. >> and speaking of the border, the secretary of homeland security on her way there right now as customs and border protection face growing criticism and scrutiny after the deaths of two detained migrant children this month alone. and...