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Here is the democrats came out and said they told the president, mr. president, let's just open the government and then we'll discuss the issue of the wall border security and each said that's not going to happen in pieces, as he put it, we won't be opening the government until this is solved. he also made the case, he never talks about federal workers personally, but he made the case that if he did interview all of them, they would be happy with what he's doing because he's giving them security instead of their paycheck. i'd like to take a poll of those people and see exactly how they're feel...

Andrea? >> garrett, covering the white house as you do, what is the strategy here. the democrats take over tomorrow, and he is losing leverage and they have the votes to pass the measure, and then back to nancy pelosi, it is on the senate's problem,and they have passed it. so how can they say they don't agree with it any longer? >> andrea, the strategy is to seize as much of the initiative and to the degree they have it leveraged as the white house possibly can. both of the meetings today, the cabinet meeting and the wall border security or whatever you choose to call it briefing this afternoo...

Muddying the waters with the wall and border security. it is not clear what the president considers an actual wall. john kelly said this administration abandoned the idea of a concrete wall early in trump's presidency. he told "the los angeles times" it is not a wall. the president still says wall. he will say barrier or fencing. now he is tending to steel slats. we talked about the wall early on in the administration. senator graham came to the white house and said he pitched the president on what he described a breakthrough to trade $5 billion in wall funding for temporary protections for th...

There willing to provide money for wall border security if we could deal with the daca population and tps people. we hope to get serious discussions started maybe as soon as next week. >> reporter: keep in mind, mick mulvaney, the acting chief of staff and budget director, has signalled the president is willing to back down off that $5 billion number. vice president mike pence offered something in the neighborhood of $2.5 billion. half of that and democrats rejected it. the democratic leaders have not been invited back for further negotiations. talks are still at a standstill. alison and alex....

Wall funding for temporary protections for the dreamers protected by daca. >> the president did not commit, but i think he is open minded. i know there are democrats out there willing to provide money for wall border security if we could deal with the daca population and tps people. we hope to get serious discussions started maybe as soon as next week. >> reporter: keep in mind, mick mulvaney, the acting chief of staff/budget director, has signalled the president is willing to back down off that $5 billion number. vice president mike pence last week offered something in the neighborhood of $2....