some misleading facts about the border wall even as you mentioned he undercut the leverage he might have in court by suggesting this is not a national in which at all, this is voluntary. something he did not have to do, but he chose to do after lawmakers did not come close to giving him $5.7 billion that lawmakers did not give him for his wall. he was facing pressure from both sides of the aisle to sign a spending package that lawmakers in congress put together for him. they provided $1.375 billion for his wall, that's far less, even in half of what he had requested. if the president was facing a conservative backlash or considering signing that deal, as many saw that as capitulation, as the president caving. it was even less than he could have gotten before the shutdown. the president expressing his dissatisfaction with that and went ahead and signed it and