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Everyone in washington is to blame. but both sides right now are continuing to dig in their heels. my reporting aligns exactly with what robert and kimberly have both said here. the idea of an off-ramp. trying to come up with some solution here. understanding that democrats are not going to budge. the president doesn't want to budge. but his prime objective here is to try to make a win to show his supporters, to show his base that he is fighting for this wall. so they're look for ways for him to try to declare a victory without congress actually allocating that money. >> and robert, your newsp...

There might be some harm that came to him. he gave a kind of cryptic answer at first, said that you had no advance notice of his disappearance. when i pushed him and said does that mean you didn't have any advanced notice that anything bad might happen to him, not disappearance necessarily, he said "we had no advanced notice." i want to clarify, does that mean you had no advanced notice about anything that might possibly happen to him at the consulate? >> almost never do you hear us talk about matters of intelligence here at the state. i'm not going to get into those matters of intelligence. a...

When and if we have additional information to bring you, we will bring it to you right away. >> reporter: is it your understanding, did you tell him that he better -- >> we absolutely did not. that was not at our direction. i can't speak on behalf of that government. i can tell you i'm told that he's headed back to his home country, and we expect some information when he gets back. >> reporter: have you told him not to bother coming back unless he has an explanation in. >> not now, no. i'm not going to get ahead of things. this has the highest attention at the highest levels of the government....

Reports that you had intelligence that there -- might be some harm that came to him. he gave kind of cryptic answer at first and said that you had no advanced notice of his disappearance and then when i pushed him and said does that mean you didn't have any advanced notice that anything bad might happen to him, not disappearance necessarily, he said we had no advanced notice. so i want to clarify, does that mean you had no advanced notice of or no intelligence or any information and anything that might possibly could happen to him at the consulate? >> almost never do you hear us talk about mat...

Other homeland security agencies for the budget cuts to pay for the wall that mexico is clearly not going to pay for. has anybody confirmed that from the white house? >> yes, we reached out to the white house on that. i want to add one thing to whoo b what robert was saying. i spoke to a source familiar to former president obama's tweets that president obama wasn't livid, in effect he rolled his eyes as he heard about those claims. moving on to what you were asking about we got a statement from the white house in effect said earlier in this process working with agencies on how to best meet the...