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Essentially comes down to whether or not donald trump wants to give up on his assertion that he wants to see this wall built. this is a point that was just -- >> it's down to slats, right? >> right, exactly. the steel slats. the beautifully, artistically designed steel slats. >> he never said concrete. >> we're back to slats. >> to the point just made. the only person who can negotiate and have final sign-off and authorization of what trump wants to do is trump when he has something in front of him. we thought we had a deal prior to the holidays where there was going to be government funding. ...

I voted for you. build the wall. our citizenship is not to be given away free. >> ed: you are in the house before now being elected to the senate and i have to press you on the fact that if that veteran wants the wall built, why didn't you and your colleagues build that wall in 2017 and 2018? >> i've had the chance to vote for building that wall, every time i've done it. our citizenship and this country and our sovereignty is precious. i say i fight for five things every day. faith, family, freedom, hope, opportunity. i'm going to continue to do it anytime i can support securing our country, e...

Privately some of his allies saying that if he could not get funding for the border wall, he would be backing down on the key campaign promise, and get this wall built. so now, the shutdown is entering the 13th day, and no end in sight, and he has met with the congressional members in the situationroom, and started out with the dhs secretary kirstjen neilson briefing people on the border situation, and she was interrupted with by nancy pelosi and chuck schumer about how to get the government back open oed, and that got some reaction in the room. and the democrats are feeling emboldened to take...

>> well, i mean, there is very little support for this wall in the country and not just among people who voted for democrats, right? as you said, i think it's 35% of people in this country want this wall built. fewer than that support this government shutdown. i think people who voted for democrats understand they're going into a divided government, that they're going to have to compromise with this president, as erratic and unreasonable as he is. but what they didn't vote for is kind of unilateral surrender to hostage taking, which is what we're involved in right now. >> what is already happe...

Corey gardner in colorado. gardner, for example, someone we know is working behind the scenes, talking to the president, trying to get some kind of resolution to this. the president is playing with house money to a degree here. he has no other agenda left. there will not be another tax cut with the democratic left. maybe this trade deal. other than that, the wall is the last big campaign promise that he can fight for legislatively. i think that's part of the reason why you're seeing him so dug in. >> again, he said mexico was going to pay for it, not the american taxpayer. mexico was going to ...