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Congressman from the state of california. right before we came back from break, a couple tweets from the president. let me use one to tee up my first question to you if i could. quote, nancy pelosi and some of the democrats turned down my offer yesterday before i even got up to speak, he writes. they don't see crime and drugs, they only see 2020 which they are not going to win. best economy exclamation mark. they should do the right thing and allow people to get back to work. let me ask you first of all, if anything from what the president proposed yesterday is something that you could conside...

Government and then you have a negotiation on how much to put to technology, coast guard. what you don't do is have a president that's chosen to manufacture a crisis to keep a political promise that he said originally was going to be paid for by mexico and holding 800,000 workers hostage. get them paid, back to work j a dis cushion like rational adults about how we're going to fund border security. you don't take the funding for the entire government, especially when they voted for divided government. they voted to have a democratic house of representatives. donald trump had two years with rep...

Renege on his campaign promise. is there anything left in this fight? >> i think that is an unfair characterization of what democrats are saying. we said we are for border security. we said we expressed our desire to have technology and 21st century solutions. we are not playing politics. we opened government or tried to open government and we are waiting for the than tpresident partner with us. and not hold the 800,000 workers hostage. >> the president is focusing on the wall. behind the scenes, he is hiring a number of lawyers another to "the post" report here. you have scheduled testimony t...

We have a very special fallback friday. the one and only special icon and pulitzer prize winner together tonight. i don't think you want to miss it. let's begin with the big news. speaker pelosi playing "hardball." they will not give an inch to build the wall mexico would pay for as the shutdown goes into the 14th day. a.k.a. we're on the third week. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer made it plain after meeting with trump. >> we're just completed a lengthy and sometimes contentious conversation with the president. >> we made a plea to the president once again. don't hold millions of americans, hu...

Resolve this until we open up government. >> we made a plea to the president once again, don't hold millions of americans, hundreds of thousands of workers hostage. open up the government and let's continue the discussions. eric: and yet another meeting broke up within the last hour with no result. ellison barber live in washington with the latest. >> reporter: this week the house papassed a combined week to reopen parts of the government through september 30th, seven democrats voted in favor of that. the house also approved funding for dhs on an interim basis with no wall funding. the senate ...