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It is not helping the republicans to be the owners of this shutdown. Today we gave them an opportunity to get out of that and open up the government as we debate Border Security. And to say to them, because he says he wont sign it and use the government as hostage, we should just give in, the American People dont want that. Were asking the president to open up government. We are giving him a republican path to do that. Why would he not do it . Its a development that should shock nobody. This meeting was apparently a bit of a mess, and thats acc d according to the republicans who just left the white house. Remember, this was supposed to be a briefing from dhs on Border Security, but things got so heated that the briefing was cut short. Get ready for more theater because the president wants them to come back on friday. Folks, this all comes at a time when the white house rejected the latest offer from democrats because it does not fund the wall, a wall that the president himself claimed

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