the american enterprise institute has more on the future of prime minister theresa may and breaks it. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal" is next. president trump: the proposal is not intended to solve all of our immigration challenges. this plan solves the heed crisis, and it is a horrible crisis. it is a humanitarian crisis like we rarely see in our country. host: in an attempt to move the needle to reopen the federal government and get $5.7 billion in funding for a partial border wall, the president yesterday putting a new offer on the table, but already democrats and some leading conservatives are calling it a nonstarter. it is sunday, january 20, day 30 of the partial government shutdown, now entering week five. the senate will take up the president's plan this week.

house speaker pelosi saying that chamber will take up bills that would reopen those portions of the federal government that remain closed. we begin with your reaction to these weekend developments. our phone lines are open. for democrats, 202-748-8000. for republicans, 202-748-8001. if you're an independent, 202-748-8002. send us a tweet, we'll retoday it, @cspanwj. good sunday morning. thanks very much for being with us. a number of developments over the weekend. we'll get to all of that in just a moment. but first, this is the headline from "the washington post." trump's offer on the wall is rejected. here is a summary of the white house proposal. the president again calling for $5.7 billion to fund a steel barrier system, a wall or a barrier, $805 million for new border technology and personnel. another $800 million for humanitarian assistance, as

well as new temporary housing, $782 million to hire an additional 2,700 border agents, and nearly $564 million to support the immigration court system. that's a summary of what the president outlined. he delivered his speech from the white house yesterday afternoon at 4:00 eastern time. we carried it live. here's part of what the president said. president trump: as a candidate for president, i promised i would fix this crisis, and i intend to keep that promise one way or the other. our immigration system should be the subject of pride, not a source of shame as it is all over the world. our immigration system should be the envy of the world, not a symbol of disunited and dysfunction. -- disunity and dysfunction. the good news is these problems can all be solved, but only if we have the political courage to do what is just and what is

right. both sides in washington must simply come together, listen to each other, put down their armor, build trust, reach across the aisle, and find solutions. it is time to reclaim our future from the extreme voices who fear compromise and demand open borders, which means drugs pouring in, human trafficking, and a lot of crime. host: the full speech by the president is on our website at c-span.org. a short while ago, virginia's democratic senator, mark warner, with this tweet, saying today would be a good day to reopen the government. we'll get more reaction in jooment, but joining us on the phone is linda feldman, the washington bureau chief and white house correspondent for the "christian science monitor." linda, thanks for being with us. i know a busy day yesterday. you were writing those pool reports. give us a summary of how things

unfolded. guest: yesterday was an incredibly busy day. it was busier than usual, even for a weekday. if it had been a weekday, it would have been busy. so having a saturday like this was quite something. the president started the day by flying off to dover air force base for the dignified transfer of remains of the four americans who had been killed in syria. he spoke to us, to the press pool, on the south lawn before he left. you know, talking about all the various issues on the table, including the proposal that he was going to make that afternoon. then he held a citizenship vent in which five new american citizens were created in a naturalization ceremony in the oval office. he gave his speech to the nation. and then there was a briefing with the vice president, mick mulvaney and jared kushner, really kind of amplifying what

the president was proposing and how it was, they felt, a significant step forward in the effort to reopen the government. host: we know the vice president will be making a number of appearances on the sunday morning programs, as you indicated, saying that this is not an amnesty plan. i want to give you some reaction, including this from ann coulter, who was one of those voices that really changed the president's mind in december, that in part led to the shutdown. a short while ago, tweeting trump proposes amnesty, we voted for trump and got jeb. your thoughts? guest: well, this is -- we now see the frame. so, on the left, you have the democrats, led by nancy pelosi, speaker of the house, rejecting trump's proposal before he even made his statement on television, and on the right, you have ann coulter, you have james carafano at the heritage foundation calling it an amnesty. the solution will be somewhere

in the middle there. and we're beginning to see the outlines of that, really, for the first time since the government shutdown almost a month ago. host: this is from the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell. he tweeted the following, "i commend the president for his leadership in proposing this bold solution to reopen the government, secure the border, and take bipartisan steps toward addressing current immigration issues." he then followed up with his full statement. let me begin on that point with regard to the senate, because the president making reference to what that chamber will be doing this week. what can we expect? guest: so, the senate will take a vote this week. and again, this is another kind of breaking of the logjam. mitch mcconnell had been very much on the sidelines until now. so now he's willing to put some legislation on the floor, as early as tuesday, but more likely thursday. the problem with going to thursday is that if they don't, if they don't pass legislation

and reopen the government by tuesday, then federal workers will miss a second paycheck, and i think that really seriously ramps up the pressure on both parties to get this thing solved. host: you had a chance to see the president, interact with him on a number of occasions yesterday. how would you sense his overall mood was? guest: i think he's -- the mood -- it's hard to read his mood. and i don't want to pretend to know what's going on internally with him, but i think he realizes that time is not his friend. the public is -- a majority of the public is blaming him for the shutdown, and indeed, he himself had said a while ago, before the shutdown, that he would proudly own it if it took place. so he now knows that he's got to get this thing solved, and that he has to move off some absolute positions and move toward compromise. host: we're talking with linda feldman, white house correspondent for the

"christian science monitor." this is the statement that was issued yesterday by the house speaker, nancy pelosi, who was scheduled to be in afghanistan this weekend, but, of course, that trip was scrubbed when the president cancelled the use of any military aircraft and plans to leave on a or commercial jet also cancelled once the trip was announced. but this is what the speaker of the house has issued this tatement -- host: tote point of what the

president put on the table -- to the point of what the president put on the table, explain what this means for the dreamers, a three-year extension, but not a permanent solution, correct? guest: that's right. and that really goes to the core of why democrats rejected the president's proposal out of hand, before he'd even announced it, that is that what he wants is his $5.7 billion, which would go toward about 200 miles of border structures. he describes it as a clear steel barrier, or whatever, you know, whatever they think is needed, so that's permanent, more border structures. the proposals for dreamers and for people, for refugees with temporary protected status is temporary. and democrats are rejecting that out of hand as unacceptable. host: linda feldmann, what's the next step? what are we expecting, either from the white house or from capitol hill? guest: i think we're going see a lot of negotiation this week. it's been -- it can't be just

the pelosi and trump show. we saw that yesterday in that briefing with mike pence and jared kushner. and mick mulvaney. they're leading the charge as the president's emissaries. they don't have the president's image problems in terms of taking a hard-line position. they can work with people on the hill, including mitch mcconnell, speaker pelosi, and their oub ordinates. i think you'll see a lot more behind-the-scenes action this week, and then, of course, legislation going to the floor in both houses. host: a busy weekend, up early on a sunday morning, linda feldmann, covering all of this for "christian science monitor," thanks for being with us on c-span. we appreciate it. guest: my pleasure, steve. host: let's goat some of your tweets and then phone calls, your reaction to this white house offer that essentially offers protection for those daca, the so-called dreamers, in exchange for wall funding. the president calling it steel barriers. one viewer saying we have a president that allows his policy decisions to be shaped

by that awful woman, ann coulter. another from karen saying, how is it bold to give temporary protection to daca that donald trump took away? and then there's this from robert, chuck and nancy are globalists that wanted open borders. it's that simple. marian from aberdeen, north carolina, our line for democrats. your reaction to what we've been seeing over the last 48 hours. caller: yes, well, i think that trump has made it very clear that there's no limit to his capacity for brutal cruelty, to the government workers and to the daca persons and the people who are here under the temporary protection status. his calculation to offer a three-year -- three years of protection is that he would be re-elected, his fantasy, and then, of course, he would change the temporary status, and he would, you know, because part of his re-election

campaign would be a commitment to end daca protection and to end the temporary protection. so let us know that all of these republicans, especially in croongs who are supporting him, are spineless cowards. they should really all make it clear to him that they're not going down with him. he is going down. his poll numbers are going down. the groups that supported him, you know, they're not supporting him the way they were. and it's time to reopen the government now. host: we'll leave it there. thanks for the call. michael joining outs republican line, new kensington, pennsylvania, good morning, michael. caller: good morning, steve. thank you for taking my call. i really think that the president is in the right. i think it has been -- i think the polls, i do not believe the polls on this issue particularly. it depends how the question is framed. but i think most americans

believe in a wall, even his support among his hispanics is skyrocketed to 50% from 39%. and i think that this wall is so important, and i think it's worth fighting for, and i think the only thing the democrats have, they don't have a leg to stand on on this issue, because they voted for funding for walls in the past. they've paid $25 billion for wall funding. they have stated that they wanted walls. and now all the sudden walls don't work, we pay for them in other countries. we paid for border protection in other countries. and i think it's obvious that if you see these caravans storming the border, a wall would go a long way towards helping the border agents keep them out, which they themselves have said.

and they would not have to use tear gas and things like that to keep them out. it's somewhat inhumane. so i think, on all levels, trump is in the right here. pelosi just looks like she has egg on her face, and that's why she refused to have the state of the union address, because it would give trump a forum to say these things, and she doesn't want him to say these things. host: mike, thanks for the call. steven has this tweet, strange that president trump is negotiating after he makes the decision to shut down the government. he is holding fed workers as bargaining chips. why didn't he negotiate before the shutdown? back to phone calls. robert from kentucky, independent line, good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i'd like to make a statement. i cannot believe that we live in a country that's building iron curtains on its frontiers

and concentration camps in its hinterlands. we are doing the same thing as the 1940's germans did by turning a blind eye to our leaders' misbehavior against people who don't exactly look and act the same way that other people do. this is an atrocity. and if we was to improve the countries on or borders, as if we are -- like we're improving the countries in afghanistan and iraq, places like that, country building, it's just impossible to believe that we can't improve our neighbors' relationship. host: you're watching c-span's "washington journal" live on a sunday morning. we are going to take a short break. our programming will continue. we're back in a moment. >> "washington journal" will begin later today. until then, a discussion about the withdrawal of u.s. troops

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