that's from the democrat leader. in 2009, again, crediting the construction of 630 miles of border fence that create a significant barrier to illegal immigration on our southern land border. in other words, madam president, in 2009 the democrat leader not only didn't oppose border fences, he praised them. madam president, the fact of the matter is our border is not secure. tens of thousands of individuals try to cross our southern border illegally each month. illegal drugs flow into this country through ports of entry and unsecured areas of the border. federal agents have seen a 115% increase in the amount of fentanyl seized between ports of entry. 30% of the heroin supply in this country, i should say 90% of the heroin supply in this country, 90% flows across our southern border. then there's human trafficking, weapons trafficking and more. we need better border security, including more barriers, technology and personnel along our southern border. we need to know who's coming into our country and why, and we need to

they were a lot of questions sanders -- are you a democrat democrat, or are you a democrat socialist? a name we have not mentioned over the course of the past 60 minutes, michael bloomberg, somebody who was mayor of new york, well-known, well-known businessman. he has been a democrat, he has been a registered independent, and he came to iowa a few weeks ago and said that he is seriously considering running for president. he would be able to self finance, because of his wealth. and you have senator warren this our weekend say that nomination should not be for sale, a reference not only to michael bloomberg but to tom stier, the california businessman, who has been all over the country holding these need to impeach events. he will be here the following week. kay, a lot of people mentioned wanting to run, putting their toe in the water, doesn't ever feel like some of them are just doing it because they want to get their name out there, and it is not really a serious attempt at running or entering the caucuses there in iowa? guest 1: short answer -- yes. longer answer is people run for ma

there is no democratic party.here is the state of california and new york and that is pelosi and schumer. if you look at california, the fifth largest economy in the world and it is based on hatred, fraud, you have hollywood with brainwashingity the social engineering. apple computer, facebook, google , uber, microsoft. these are basically monopolies and they are actually terrorist organizations attached to pelosi . she actually mentioned ronald reagan. i grew up in detroit. it shows you the democrats -- half of the democratic party and if you look at california, about a third of all the illegals come into california. host: are you an independent? do you lean more republican? caller: i am a human being. therepublican party is south, going back to the civil war and the klan and the democratic party is the state of new york, which is attached to schumer and j.p. morgan and citigroup and the guggenheim and black rock and blackstone. host: rick's thoughts and ohio. republicans in the house nominated and voted for kevi

would you have to run as a democrat. would you have to get a democratic nomination. if you go out and you he explain to them what you do. keep in mind, i got elected in new york city, an overwhelmingly democratic city, and overwhelmingly minority city. i got elected three times. i must know something about this. guest: he has an unlimited amount of money. the question is could you actually, you know, use that money and actually generate support? i think there are a lot of about bloomberg and some of the maybe heavy-handed police tactics in new york city that would be something other candidates would use against bloomberg. 20, 25, ir it is could sit here and badmouth the chance of 20 to 25 of them. but i would be right. somebody has got win this nomination and there is no clear frontrunner so i can't sit here and say, oh, well, elizabeth warren has no chance, michael bloomberg has no chance. i mean, i don't know. i think there are a lot of people with credible resumes who could run credible campaigns who will decide to run and a long campaign to go, a year or plus bef

my democratic friends wanted fencing and physical barriers in the recent past. their most prominent leaders actually bragged about voting for physical barriers. the only thing that has changed between then and now is the occupant of the white house. steel fencing was fine, even salutary when president obama was in theut white house, but is immoral when president trump occupies the office. all of a sudden, all of the sudden democrats have developed this new partisan allergy to the subject of border security. they are even prolonging a partial government shutdown just to avoid getting more of what they themselves have voted for in the past. so, mr. president, this inconsistency doesn't stop with drawing imaginary lines in the sand between the border security the democrats once supported and the virtually identical measures they have decided to a post today. the inconsistency also extends to the conduct of the senate itself during this tantrum. soes yesterday evening democrats blocked the senateee from preceding the important foreign policyti legislation. as i was

inside the democratic party, there is leadership within the congress, but also inside the democratic party there are four different campaign committees that are dedicated to getting democrats elected to four different kinds of office. one for house candidates, one for senate candidates, one for democratic candidates for governor and one for democratic legislative candidates across the country. as of next year, all four of those campaign committees will be led by democratic women. for the first time in history in either party, all the campaign committees will be female-led. the head of the democratic governor's association is the governor of rhode island, gina raimondo. democrats this year flipped seven governors' houses from red to blue. six governors' races were won by women democrats this year. two of whom won in states that donald trump won in 2016. now gina raimondo has been elected by her fellow democratic governors to help democrats win more governorships next year. in the senate, democrats didn't win back control of the senate this year. but they did flip two states blue, neva

do the democratic does the democratic stablish what do they fear people like. alexandra because you've got it has. in your party so i think the the moderate democrats fear her and i think you know there are people who are red state democrats who may be afraid because you know they have to toe a certain line i think some of the older establishment people certainly fear her you're going to see people during this election cycle this presidential election they're all going to be seeking her indorsement yeah so she's a very powerful person and powerful people are feared so i would certainly believe that there are people who want her out of the spotlight yeah but she's being helped by the right wing medio can't take her eyes off of a i got i got to jump in here gentlemen we're going to go to a short break why i'd like to say that i hope anyone that puts the fear of god into these people i would support to one degree or another ok we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on a o.c. state with our team. in a world of bi

what exactly are democrats taking issue with? >> well, we've heard now from the speaker of the house, ana, who's yet to see specifically what president trump has to say and what we're about to hear in a few minutes. nancy pelosi said, initial reports make it clear that his proposal is a billation of several previously rejected initiatives, each of which is unacceptable and do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to people's lives. it's unlikely any of these provisions alone would pass the house, and taken together they are a nonstarter. for one thing, this proposal does not include the permanent solution for the dreamers and the tps recipient that our country needs and supports. that is the important distinction here between previous negotiations that the white house and congressional democrats have had over this immigration issue. in the past, chuck schumer offered president trump as much as $25 billion to build his wall, but in exchange for that, they wanted a definitive pathway to citizenship for the dreamers

and my democratic colleagues appeared to be firmly committed. senate democrats have discussed quote - the continuation of america's unshakable seven decade commitment to israel's security and doing everything in our power to fight the movement. but alas, instead of proceeding to this legislation, senate democrats voted to block it. my friend, the democratic leader chose to take this partial government shutdown that he is prolonged and add his very own senate shutdown on top of it. they want to shut down the senate as well. no progress. no bipartisan work. not even on urgent and pressing matters. nothing that might take the spotlight off his unreasonable showdown with the president. during the 2013 government shutdown, just as an example mr. president, the senate kept chugging through the peoples business. we passed five bills. 13 cresolutions. appointed the farm bill. the budget resolution, and confirmed 28 of the president obama is nominees during the last government shutdown. so the senate was not shut down. during last government shutdown. th

but that's not something the democrats understand. it is my way or the highway. they will not give an inch. they want their way and their way only. all of us like to get our proposals passed exactly as we want them. no changes. but we also know that's unrealistic to get something done usually have to compromise but with a strongly held position has made it very clear that to be willing to be flexible and negotiate that the democrats refused to play ball and continue to hold the government hostage our colleague from new york the senator mcconnell's job but the fact of the matter is thatte the negotiation in the circumstances between the president of the united states and the democrats in the senate and the house who have refused to budge on that position republican leaders made it very clear as soon as the president is willing to sign something and democrats are willing to produce enough votes necessary to pass the senate he will move bill to the united states senate and that and the shutdown and find border security. and to indicate that budget stalemate to have

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we will follow his remarks by democratic caucus chair hakim jeffries and other democrats talking about the shutdown. >> hi, everybody. well, it's good to see everybody. we today continue in the same situation that we have been in which is that republicans are absolutely committed to securing the border. we welcome the democrats back from their weekend in the sun in puerto rico and also would note that the president has once again, in addition to providing very detailed specific line items in terms of the memo that he provided a couple weeks ago, what's required for border security, has also now been reaching out inviting democrats from throughout their caucus to come to the white house to sit down to talk, which is the only way that we're ever going to get to a place where we have an agreement, and the democrats are refusing. they're saying no. so while at the same time we've got federal workers who now are not receiving paychecks, we've got a situation at the border that's got to be secured, the democrats continue to put bills on the floor which are bills that are not going to go anyp

but it is democrats who are standing in the way of that happening. instead of seriously trying to resolve the shutdown, they're holding show votes in the house and trying to score political points. the administration made an offer on sunday, yet four days later, and democrats have yet to respond. they really want to reopen the government, they'll sit down and negotiate in good faith with the president to arrive at a solution that both parties can support and that the president will sign. madam president, i have to ask when did securing our borders become immoral? it used to be that members of both parties recognize that border security was a basic obligation of our government, that we had a duty to ensure that our borders were protected and that dangerous individuals or goods were not entering our country. but apparently, apparently democrats don't agree with that anymore. according to speaker pelosi, building barriers to protect our borders is, quote, immoral. that's right, madam president. immoral. according to the speaker of the house protecting o

i was a democrat, but the democrats are trying to turn this into a one-world new-world order, one-world government. if these were russians bringing heroin, violence, we would shoot them. but because these are brown people, it's okay. the democrats are basically throwing america down the toilet. >> these are some of the people that president trump is responding to in this fight. this has been a key campaign promise since day one, building a wall. this is why president trump is holding firm here. for two years when republicans had total control of congress, he wasn't able to get this priority. now after democrats just won the house, he needs to show he's putting up a fight. >> amongst the republicans on this issue, how are the freedom caucus standing with the president on this? for those who pulled away, would you describe them more moderate republicans? the freedom caucus is standing behind the president. the week before christmas, when the senate passed this spending bill to keep the government funded it was the freedom caucus that implored president trump to hold firm and not to just l

the democrats used to understand the need for border security. in 2009 the democratic leader here in the senate said, and i quote, illegal immigration is wrong, plain and simple. i'm told the american people are convinced we should stop the illegal immigration we will make no promise on dealing with the millions that are here now and rationalizing the system of legal immigration. immigration. it ithat is plain and simple and unavoidable. that is from the democratic leader here in the senate from 2009. in 2006 the democratic leader of the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee voted for legislation to authorize ther border fence and then with senator obama. this would have provided $46 billion for border security and 8 billion specifically for a physical barrier. three senate democrats supported $25 billion in border security funding just last february, and i suspect more than one democrats don't understand we need to improve security at the borders. the democratic leadership refuses to play ball again two weeks into the shutdown, theyti

but the democrat leadership refuses to play ball. more than two weeks into this shutdown they are still, still not willing to negotiateur a solution that would securepe our borders and reopen the reopenede government. democrat literally to ignore the security and humanitarian crisis at the southern border simply because they don't like this president, because they are afraid to oppose the far left wing of their party. mr. . mr. president, we need to end this partial shutdown and need to reopen the government. but the only way for that to happen is for democrats to work with republicans and the president to provide adequate funding for border security. once they negotiate in good faith towards a sears agreement that the president will sign, the senate will immediately, immediately take it up so that we can and they shut down and take needed steps to bolster security at our borders. mr. president, border security is not some issue that republicans have somehow dreamed up. securing our borders is a national security imperative. both par

but apparently, apparently democrats don't agree with that anymore. according to speaker pelosi, building barriers to protect our borders is quote, immoral. that's right, madam president, immoral. accord to go the speaker of the house protecting our borders to with barriers to prevent illegal entry is immoral. border security isn't an issue dreamed up by hard-hearted republicans, border security is an imperative, both parties recognized until recently. no country can be secure if dangerous individuals can creep across the borders unchecked and unobserved. democrats talk about barriers as if it's to prevent anyone from entering our country and that's false. america is a land much immigrants and we always welcome new faces to america with open arms. in fact, i, like many others in this chamber, am the grandson of immigrants who came to ellis island. my grandparents obviously came and settled in south dakota. we need to make sure that individuals who are coming to this country are coming here legally, and that we know who they are and why they're coming.

democrat party power. democrat party before country. there is appear excellent piece in of all places the atlantic. a left wing site written by a guy by the name of peter buckhart a liberal. he says between 2008 and 26, the democrats became more and more confident. the country is growing gave the party electoral edge. so they switched. salon which is a left wing site. they declared after obama's 2008 win if that pattern continues with the la teen latio vote the g.o.p. is doomed 40 years wandering into the dessert. he goes on to explain this is a liberal and liberal fight. that's exactly what is going on. notice pelosi and schumer didn't talk about the american worker. notice they didn't talk about the communities on the border that are suffering. notice they never talk about law and order because they hated law enforcement. they never talk about the overwhelming cost involved in healthcare. the overwhelming cost involved in our public schools. localities and states, they are barely reimbursed for this. we, the american taxpayer, the ame

that democratic candidates talked about impeachment. that's how they won democratic primaries.th medicare for all, those were the top two issues the democratic candidates talked about. that's going to have an impact on the 2020 presidential race. it's going to have an impact on the congressional races. it has an impact on the securing of the portable. yes, this message of impeachment to that he is pushing and forcing democrats to be beholden to has a huge impact. >> marie: i think you are mostly exaggerating his affection of the party. as candy mentioned earlier, harris, moderate democrats when the house back and they didn't talk about impeachment. >> harris: i don't know they would put hakeem jeffries in that category. i interviewed him on the network around election day. i was really surprised when he called the president the name he called him, a grand wizard. i think when you are in the top five leadership in the house -- and i believe he is position number three -- not only is that a distraction and potentially damaging for your message, but he is going to carry the messag

i was a democrat, but the democrats are trying to turn us into a new world order, one world government. if these were russians trying to come across the border bringing that,, gang members and we would be shooting them at the border and say they're communists. but it is ok if they are coming across from all over the world. this doesn't make any sense. we have to shut it down and support our people. the democrats are basically throwing america down the toilet. host: jerry from utah. some of the are people president is responding to in this fight. it has been a key campaign promise of his campaign of building a wall and the symbolism that provides. this is why president trump is holding firm. , when republicans had total control of congress, he wasn't able to get this priority. now with democrats, he has to put up a fight. host: amongst the republicans, how is the freedom caucus standing with the president? would you describe them as moderate republicans? how do we look at that? staying on the president. the week before christmas when the senate passed the spending bill to keep the gover

democrats (202) 748-8000, republicans (202) 748-8001 and .ndependents (202) 748-8002 for the democrats, why is there a motivation to get these dreamers that permanent status? what happened to that? guest: it's a great question. i think a lot of it has to do with the politics. they've always been able to campaign for dreamers and say this is important and it needs to be done. i think this has been going on for almost a decade. they have been campaigning trying to give dreamers permanent status. it does help that it keeps those voters who agree with them engaged on that issue. #will that the voters might think -- if you finally fixed that than voters might have less of. -- a reason to vote. it's complex. what is your perspective on who is politically -- who will politically feel the damage of this shutdown? guest: i think it's increasingly going against republicans in the polls. took basically responsibility for the shutdown even before it happened saying i'm going to shut down the government. so naturally the polls are showing that this is going poorly for republicans. some republicans

clearly the democrats priorities are way out of whack here. way out of whack. you see that also related to border security and things that they all supported in the past, every prominent democrat they now opposed. i would say it's a little bit of a challenging beginning to the new year but we will work our way through it. >> on the issue of the government shutdown the one thing we all know is the democrats used to be for homeland or border security and used to be concerned about defending and protecting american borders and the evidence is pretty clear that the they have long records that show that going back to 2006 when every democrat voted for a 700-mile fence, including at that time, then senators obama and clinton and biden. then you also had in 2013 every democrat vote to complete a 700-mile fence in support $46 billion and 8 billion of which was specifically to be a barrier. as recently as last year i think all but three democrats, 46 out of 49, voted once again for $25 million for border security and so the question is why have they all of a sudden flip

democrats say yes.s reopen financial services, reopen department of transportation, reopen housing and urban development, get money going to agriculture, rural development, money going to the food and drug administration, limit's get all of those presumably hundreds of thousands of people back up and working. so that they have get a paycheck friday like they're supposed to, pay the light bill, pay the mortgage, be able to, you know, do what they need to do for the kids, pay for it as they always thought they would be. the white house says no. and in essence, the answer is, we want our wall. we want our border qualified. -- border wall like we promised, though we promised the mexicans would pay for it, this is not keeping a promise, even if they were to get it which the democrats say they won't, would not be keeping a promise. we remember the promise, how can we forget it, i we heard it for a move sundays, hundreds of times, we're going to -- whash we going to build? a wall. who's going to pay for it? me

it works for the democrats. america,ot work for but it works for the democrats, a fence. host: ian, thank you very much. guest 2: the sanctuary city debate is an age-old one that hits conservatives, not only progressives, but a number of mayors tell them if you cut off funding or you require law enforcement to go after undocumented people, you are taking away an avenue that law enforcement has to gain information. in other words, if you are trying to knock on somebody's door and they are worried that there are i.c.e. agents behind them, they will not get the information tour de force conservatives say local citizen -- unique local cities and cooperation -- say you need local cities and cooperation to get what you want to both sides give away what they want and what they don't want. is where the local meets the national, and you have sahil wasons, like are at law enforcement august with their representatives, and that definitely poses an issue, and it has driven some lawmakers to connect on this issue with her constituents and really listen. host: with the incoming of the

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it works for the democrats. it does not work for america, but it works for the democrats, a fence. pedro: thank you very much. any thoughts? sahil: the sanctuary city is age old one -- that hits conservatives, not only progressives, but a number of mayors tell them if you cut off funding or you require law enforcement to go after undocumented people, you are taking away an avenue that law enforcement has to gain information. in other words, if you are trying to knock on somebody's door and they are worried that there are i.c.e. agents behind them, they will not get the enforcement that information, so this is the debate that goes on and convert -- conservatives say you need local governments to the government to enforce the law. it is a very tough issue that i don't see a resolution to unless both sides get a lot of things they want and give up a lot of things they don't want. >> i expect we will hear a lot of that when the new congress comes in. katherine: absolutely. i think this is where the local meets the national, and you have jurisdictions, like sahil was saying, local law e

where are the democrats? the heads of federal employee unions pointed out many of the federal, furloughed federal workers, belong to both parties, and staff have been invited to talks here on the white house campus with vice president mike pence. homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen and jared kushner representing the administration. president trump has also now said that he might be willing to declare a national emergency to get funding for his border wall if he's not able to do it legislatively. take a listen. >> we can coupall a national emergency because of the security of our country, absolutely. i may do it. i may do it. but we can call a national emergency and build it very quickly. >> congressional democrats are already expressing opposition to that idea. so, fred, not a lot of hope that we can see anything come out of this as democrats still not seeming to feel political pressure to compromise at this point. >> all right, sarah westwood at the white house, thank you. >>> joining me to discuss

at's the death wish for democrats. i'm a democrat. i'm a pretty liberal democrat.e president didn't collude because if he did we have somlarger, more problems than republican versus democrat. >> especially how well he ashed the fbi. now we know this year and a half long camign that trashes the fbi and now we have this news, this is disconcertin >> you know what we're talking about at bottom is what is the story with donald trump and vladimir putin, okay? that's really what we're talking about. and i have to tell you, republicans, democrats, liberals, conservatives, i think we would all like an answer. one question i have is why has the president kind o bragged that with lester holt and with rosenstein that his reasons for his firing of comey were if you're a russian operative, your not bragging th reason is russia. can i say i've never understood this part of the story. > maybe he needed to let somebody know that he was doing it for that that's the thing. with trump, you just don't know. i'm going to pause it here. we've got some shutdown conversation to talk about

democrats push pro-choice bills.orrespondent gillian turner is here, this is getting all kinds of reaction. >> ralph northam the governor of virginia, the democratic governor dove headfirst into the abortion debate earlier today with comments on the proposed bill in his stage to increased women's access to third trimester abortion. >> it's done in cases where there may be severe deformities, may be a fetus that's not viabl viable. in this particular example if a mother is in labor, i can tell you exactly what would happen. the infant would be delivered, the input would be kept comfortable, the input would be resuscitated if that is what the mother in the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mothers. >> he himself is a pediatric neurologist and the comments got a swift pushback. a northam spokesman clarified comments only pertain to infants who weren't viable or had severe deformities. >> the third trimester goes all the way up to 40 weeks. >> to the end of the third trimest

democrats, (202) 748-8000.. republicans, (202) 748-8001. 748-8002.ts, (202) the shift from a concrete wall to steal, you highlighted that. what was the thought process hind making that change? itst: it is a way to make look like they are making a concession. a wall is a wall. this debate has been stuck in semantics for some time. democrats know and republicans know there has been certain kinds of barriers alongside the border for a long time. not a massive wall, but barriers. there has been funding for barriers. the administration has made the idea of a wall a signature promise for this president that they are trying to fulfill that promise. they know democrats do not want a wall. speaker pelosi has called it and immorality. you are seeing the president trying to navigate these dynamics. he knows he cannot let his base be disappointed. at this point, democrats believe they have leverage. they are newly in power and they are saying to the president, this is not just about the wall. it is about the whole year. bot

should democrats be praising that?forward but the next step is we need to end this government shutdown. it hasn't been good for the economy and people are frustrated. we lose money from the fiscal perspective. what the president tried to do last night, there's an olive branch and what democrats it is no, the division is good for us and our base. rob: border patrol agents saying we need a wall, a mountain of facts that can help show the situation and how urgent it is and the democrats and the media got the greatest gift ever which is when the administration tried to insinuate that 4000 terrorists were coming from the southern border when it is nowhere near that if any at all. that is what everybody is harping on, they are lying, this is the lie. >> kellyanne conway came out about that, 4000 people who committed murders was the actual statistic. we all make mistakes, on live television we slip up. that is reasonable. the issue is when your response is mean worthy is what this has become. people are making fun from the op

base wants and how democratic leaders will proceed. >> reporter: some democrats have been calling fors. >> i said he should be impeached, and they said, don't use that word. >> reporter: but now they are part of the house majority, making that word carry far more weight, and political peril. and a celebration after being sworn in as a new congresswoman from michigan, she renewed her cry for impeachment with the "f" word. >> when your son looks at you and said, mama, look, you won, bullies don't win. and i said, baby, they don't. because we're going to go in there and we're going to impeach the mother [ bleep ]. >> reporter: fallout today. from the white house -- >> i thought her comments were disgraceful. >> reporter: to the capital, heightening the divide over impeachment. >> i'm convinced impeachment is not dead. >> reporter: but engineerjerry trying to put the breaks on this. >> i don't like that language, but i disagree with what she said. it is too early to talk about that intelligently. >> reporter: it's one of the first and perhaps most consequential tests for democrats in the

the only way for the democratic party to get stronger is for everybody to run as democrats and let's figure out what we stand for and let's figure out what we're going to run on and how we're going to form a choice in the 2020 election. i think if he thinks he has a viable option for the country and vision for this country, run as a democrat. that's his best shot of winning. >> i think there's another point. i think a point about the polarization of politics today. look at who his advisers are. you have steve schmidt, former high level obama -- >> who will be on in a few minutes. >> he is trying to make the point that perhaps both parties moved to the extreme, and i can be a third option. >> i think one reason he also thinks there's no room for him in the democratic party is because we have polling that says democrats are less likely to support a washington outsider with no experience. that works on the right, that doesn't work on the left. >> i was going to say, left of center voter myself, i don't understand why the democratic party wants to take this position. they look weak, they

talking about the democrats. we know that the democratic response is a feature of the state of the union. the out party, the party that does not hold the white house, traditionally does the response after the state of the union. last year, it was given by joe kennedy from a place near and dear to your heart. e.j: my hometown. can you talk about what we might expect to see from the democratic response? e.j.: yeah, a couple of things. i do think that a lot of the commentary on trump is summarized by president george w. bush's line "the soft big history of low expectations." he really does profit from that. you read that from a teleprompter and you are great. as ben was talking he was underscoring something very important. trump is an incumbent who behaves as if he is in the opposite. really striking that he does give some of the elements ben talk about, a great economy, he wants a paint a picture and in a way he needs to for his purposes on immigration, of the country in such a dire state that, after two years, he

we sat down with democrat...slotkin of michigan who served three tours in iraq with the cia and with republican mark green of tennessee, who was on the special ops team that captured saddam hussein. and they are our "power players of the week" ." welcome to "fox news sunday." >> delighted to be here. >> thanks for having us. >> chris: you both talk about trying to get things done, trying to compromise, to break the gridlock in washington. be specific. let me start with you, congresswoman, how? >> sure, the perfect example is the government shutdown. we have the basis of a deal, both sides are saying they care about border security. they believe in national security. start having a real negotiation about border security, border forces, more technology at the border, sensing if we needed in some areas. it doesn't just have to be a wall, that's the essence of a negotiation. i think we can start now. if people really about getting something done. >> chris: talking about the issues, i guess i'm talking more about atti

they say democrats don't talk to them. i say let the democrats say this is a manufactured crisis.ook those victims' families in the eye and tell them they department count. >> the question we should be asking is which policy is right for the american people. the longer this partial government shutdown drags on, the more americans are become educated on the facts of border security and the crisis that actually does exist, which is both a humanitarian crisis and a crisis of drugs and criminals coming over our border. liz: trump is not talking sea to sea, he's talking half that lengths. we have oregon nor talking about some barriers that are useful. let's roll through the democrats supporting the barrier. >> i agree. the 2006 secure fence act which 23 senators on the democratic side signed on to this it was for security and more checkpoints and more border agents. what democrats don't want to give the president is the border wall that he promised, and also the border wail said mexico would pay for. they offered him $25 billion the end of last year. but he wasn't willing to move on da

i am really fed up with these democrats. my family has been democrats for a lifetime. we are all fed up with the democrats. they have shown their true colors with obstructionist tactics. i am sick of seeing my own country. i fought a foreign country to protect american citizens, and i come home and i have to deal with these democrats. it is pretty damn pathetic is all i have to say. i am an oathkeeper. i stand behind president trump. there is a lot of corruption in washington dc. . they are the ones that funded the fake russian dossier with fusion gps. they are not going to get away with it. it is only a matter of time. i live in a veterinarian. -- in a veteran area. we are fed up with this. the democrats better start going straight soon, or is going to be a mess is all i can say. host: a statement issued on twitter by the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell. it reads in part, "like president trump reaffirmed his commitment to addressing the humanitarian crisis at our nation's southern border. his proposal to increase border security, the reality on the ground is

california, democratic governor in new york city democratic mayor and billing plans to give health care access to absolutely everyone including anyone who is here illegally. who is footing the bill? they don't know. once again, a grand democrat idea with no way to pay for it. it's like no one knows how to add or subtract. trish regan primetime begins right now. ♪. trish: breaking tonight, but with way from president trump to living his very first primetime address from the oval office and all about the crisis facing on our southern border. the speech coming as the partial government shutdown had been to 19th day with democrats refusing to budge. i want to bring in right now rnc spokesperson who was at the white house for a briefing today on border security with vice president pence and homeland security secretary kiersten nielsen, as we look forward now in less than one hour to the president's speech is there anything you learn today at the white house you can share with us now? >> yes, i learned number one that by sunday evening democrats have finally said they acknowledge the dhs as f

first is james from dallas, democrats line, good evening. caller: i am from texas, a state that is along the border. i would like to first of all take down this narrative that many on the right are using to advance the agenda of a wall on the southern border. they like to say people on the southern border want a border wall went the reality is that is false. most of the southern border is going to be represented by democrats. todaymcconnell's speech on the senate floor was hypocritical since he is calling of house is going to do tomorrow something to get the government open a political act when the house republicans passed a political act that put us in this situation in the first place when mitch mcconnell could have taken up with the house voted on. it very well could have gone to the president for a vote. mitch mcconnell is being very hypocritical calling what the house democrats are going to do tomorrow a political act when he could have avoided this whole situation along the senate to vote on the first one that unanimously passed with 1

why does my democratic colleagues, the democratic leader, feel the need to prolong this partial government shutdown to avoid getting more of the same investments he used to vote for? what is the reason for this bizarre about-face? well, even these very democrats are finding it difficult to invent a good excuse. on tuesday the distinguished house majority leader, mister hoyer, was asked by reporters how there's any daylight between border security construction projects the democrats have supported in the past and the ones they are now trying to block. here is what majority leader hoyer said to those reporters. this is an honest man. i don't have an answer that i think is a really good answer. i don't have an answer that i think is a really good answer. that is the majority leader of the house of representatives. madame president, the reason is there isn't a good answer. there is no credible answer. to this massive flip-flop. we all know what the real reason is.in my democratic colleagues are operating purely on political spite directed at the president of the united states. whiles would the