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By robert mueller and arrested. >> he is accused of stealing wikileaks e-mails. >> the white house wielded to pressure. the president made it clear this is not the end of the fight over the border wall. >> cnn white house reporter sarah westwood is joining us live. what is he saying from the white house? and good morning to you? >> reporter: good morning, kristi, president trump emergeed from the longest shutdown battle in history, despite remaining defiant four weeks that the government would not reopen until he got new wall funding. after those 35 days of stalemate, president trump bent and ...

>> we really have no choice but to build a powerful wall or steel barrier. if we don't get a fair deal from congress, the government will either shut down on february 15 again or i will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the constitution of the united states to address this emergency. >> that would likely include a declaration of a federal emergency, the office of management and budget has identified several billion dollars that could be put toward wall construction. what is ironic about what the president said today is that lindsey graham, senator from south carolina, suggested ...

Idea until about five minutes ago. >> oy. >> that's just a lie. i mean, it's just a lie. up until they lost control of congress two months ago, republicans didn't want to pay for the wall. now, in april 2017 "the wall street journal" found no republican lawmakers from southern border states who supported a funding request to start wall construction. they found none. in july 2017 the house gop dodged a vote on funding the wall. now two months later, a "usa today" survey found that less than a quarter of congressional republicans endorsed border wall funding. in mitch mcconnell as senate, republ...

Agree with you, it is a crisis but you hear nancy pelosi and chuck schumer speak last night even though chuck schumer voted in favor of border wall previously specifically in 2006, they say this is not a crisis. >> if it wasn't for double standards chuck and nancy would have no standard at all, chuck schumer voted in 2013 for $46 billion of wall construction for president obama and filibustering legislation passed by the house only asking for tens of that for donald trump to build a barrier. it is the height of hypocrisy. because democrats are not serious about border security, it is a pervers...

Border wall is a critical matter of national security. leaving for a retreated campaign yesterday, the president laying down the arguments. >> we have the crisis at the border of drugs, of human beings being traffic all over the world. it is national security. national emergency. >> i debriefing this afternoon like president mike prince said the president made a good offer to democrats the day after christmas, believed to be to put $5 billion for wall construction, democrats rejected it. added while democrats do not dispute there was a crisis building at the southern border, they refused to di...