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Players who are fighting to protect americans each and every day. congressman mark demose, jim jordan and matt gaetz. thank you for being here. you attended the working lunch to discuss border security. congressman matt gaetz, what was it like with the president today? >> i was so proud of our president. the establishment on both sides of the aisle wanted president trump to take a bad deal that didn't have any funding for border security. but he was tough. he stood up to them. the reason big business wants a deal is because they want the cheap labor. but who ends up paying for that? the americ...

Players who are fighting to protect americans each and every day. congressman mark demose, jim jordan and matt gaetz. thank you for being here. you attended the working lunch to discuss border security. congressman matt gaetz, what was it like with the president today? >> i was so proud of our president. the establishment on both sides of the aisle wanted president trump to take a bad deal that didn't have any funding for border security. but he was tough. he stood up to them. the reason big business wants a deal is because they want the cheap labor. but who ends up paying for that? the americ...

Players who are fighting to protect americans each and every day. congressman mark demose, jim jordan and matt gaetz. thank you for being here. you attended the working lunch to discuss border security. congressman matt gaetz, what was it like with the president today? >> i was so proud of our president. the establishment on both sides of the aisle wanted president trump to take a bad deal that didn't have any funding for border security. but he was tough. he stood up to them. the reason big business wants a deal is because they want the cheap labor. but who ends up paying for that? the americ...

Floor. >> the key part of that statement is the reference to the needed 60 votes. there are not 60 votes, and democrats are supremely confident that they can just ride the clock out here until they take control of the house on january 3rd at which point all of this discussion, all of this debate, all of this negotiation becomes irrelevant. jon? jon: doug, thank you. so the white house announces the president will stay in town for christmas, as he tries to work out a deal. president trump hosted a working lunch with lawmakers at the white house today to discuss border security. white house de...

Whatever you want to call it, but we need a great barrier, and if we don't have it, it's never going to work. >> the president's going to go as far as it takes to protect the american people. negotiations are ongoing. >> a senior administration official told reporters the trump administration is putting forward what they consider to be realistic expectations for these negotiations, and they continue to articulate what their expectations are for congress, and that is 5 billion dollars for border security and a physical barrier. a poll conducted earlier this month, 54% of american voters opposed...