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For some time to shift the dynamics so the american public, so that voters begin to see the shutdown as a democratic created problem. that's part of what the president is trying to do here, really not about changing the democratic votes but the way americans perceive it. he has been hopeful there are some democrats in some districts who will feel enough of a heat for democrats to force some kind of offer, initial negotiating offer they will somehow turn on nancy pelosi and try to press for that. i think it's unclear whether that will work. there's no sign that will work. the president has to d...

White house agreed on it. >> but at one time you guys did, right? isn't that why you did a unanimous vote for the bill? >> it wasn't unanimous. i've heard that statement. it was a voice vote, but there wasn't a roll call that was taken. there was a lot of loud noes. i was one of those knonoes. i didn't know whether the white house would agree to it. i just thought we could do our full seven resolution bills. not try to punt this into february. the whole focus was let's deal with this later. i thought this is the wrong idea when we're so close to getting the whole thing resolved. it's hard to s...

Country. >> 86% of heroin brought into the u.s. came from mexico. talk to us about that. >> that's exactly right. the president's instincts on this are very very good. illustrative is 9/11. after that we shut down the border. and when we shut down the border drugs didn't come in. emergency room admissions were down, the price of drugs went up which means if you shut down the border, close it off, if you build a wall, it can have a real and profound difference. its no the it's it's not the on. the president is putting pressure on china, the major producer and exporter of fentanyl. but mexico is...