adrienne williams. i am with the village project. we have adorned kwanza for 13 years, and now we have 17 events this week throughout the city. so welcome, everyone, and we are going -- the village project is a nonprofit functioning out of the western edition, and in addition to doing kwanzaa, we have an afterschool program, we have a summer camp, and we do free community events. so everybody sit back pack and let's enjoy opening day of kwanzaa. i want to bring up right now, father. , one of my favorite people to open with a prayer. father. is from the episcopal diocese. >> thank you. thank you, brothers and sisters. let's take a moment to remember those who have preceded us and let them speak to us. a moment of silence, please. >> amen. >> i love it. thank you, sir,. thank you, father. we have been here in city hall from 12 of those 13 years, and we are always hosted by the mayor's office of neighborhood services. i am very pleased to introduce you to mix -- mr alex lazar. director of the mayor's offic

. >> my name is adrienne williams. i am with the village project. we have adorned kwanza for 13 years, and now we have 17 events this week throughout the city. so welcome, everyone, and we are going -- the village project is a nonprofit functioning out of the western edition, and in addition to doing kwanzaa, we have an afterschool program, we have a summer camp, and we do free community events. so everybody sit back pack and let's enjoy opening day of kwanzaa. i want to bring up right now, father. , one of my favorite people to open with a prayer.

adrienne, i will start with you. williamng today from -- it would be something like 215 miles of additional wall. there are 650 miles of barrier right now. that doesn't seem like a big increase, and it doesn't seem -- it's the same style offense that we arty have. maybe what we are fighting about is that silly word "wall" as opposed to the actual material that is being proposed. >> adrienne: yes, i think border fencing or something else that the democrats are using to sort of describe this. the bottom line is this -- if the government shuts down, it's squarely on president trump. we heard it with our own ears, we watched it with our own eyes in the meeting with chuck and nancy. democrats made it -- >> melissa: he's fine with that. >> adrienne: he is fine with that, and i'm not surprised. >> david: i'm fine with it. [laughs] >> adrienne: people on the campaign trail who aren't fine as it is senate republicans. they don't want this on them. ultimately, even though we will be on trim, it will also be on them. you got people lik