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Deal with a, quote, large down payment on a wall. also tonight, president trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, has been subpoenaed by the senate intelligence committee a day after he postponed testimony before a house panel, citing threats to his family from president trump and his current lawyer, rudy giuliani. house committee chairmen say they may also order cohen to appear. i'll speak to ted liu of the joushry committee. and our correspondents are standing by with full coverage. >> let's begin with efforts to end the government shutdown. two competing bills were both voted down in the se...

Technology doesn't work. first of all, the wall is based on -- any technology works only with the wall. it's not going to work otherwise. you need the wall. in fact, a lot of technology is put on top of the wall. that's how you see it, the cameras and everything else. they literally put the technology -- they fasten it to the wall. then you have drone technology. and that's great in terms of what are you going to do? are you going to follow the people? first of all once they step into the country, you know what happens, right? you know what they do. it's called -- what do they call it? you kno...

Just a draft. it may be a potential but that is one of the options, clearly, that the president is looking at. it is note worthy after we saw, as expected, these two senate votes, showboats. no one thought they were going to pass, taken up on the senate floor and failed again. we knew that was going to happen. not for a deal but at least conversation, which is something, compared to what we saw the past two weeks. the president trying to sound like he's reaching out. same goes for nancy pelosi, but more importantly we're hearing and seeing the fact that the democratic leader in the senate, the...

About the wall. but not stuck at a number. i thought his comments there that you played earlier in the hour, he left it open. yes, he's not going to say hey, i'll take whatever they give me but he did say if it's reasonable, i'll accept it. we'll see what they say. he wasn't saying look, they can talk but ultimately if we don't have the money for the wall it's over which is, to dana's point, both sides talking, him not ruling things out, it's not a lot of progress but it comes as some progress. >> our producer in the house got this quote from nancy pelosi off the house floor about that potenti...

Compromise to allow them to go back, not only work but get paid for their work under the old theory don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good? >> because donald trump three weeks later will shut the government down again. if we cave in for his demand for a wall the first time he will keep shutting down the government every time we don't fund additional parts of the wall. that's why democrats have held firm and will continue to hold firm. it's not about the wall anymore. it's simply about not allowing the american president to use the opening of government as a concession. think of how per...