gave in. i think that s smarts politics. but donald trump doesn t like to lose, so he wants to find a way to win. he s going to say see this chain link fence, it s going to be a bigger wall. this is not the wall. this is a wall. that begs the question, though. yes. john donald trump loves a win. take the win that you didn t shut down the federal government the other day. i don t understand why he isn t touting that. when you re explaining, you re losing. that s exactly what sean spicer was doing today. he now is in some nuanced land for funding that doesn t exist about a wall or a ballard fence or a hole in the fence that you can drive a car through. whatevers chlgs he s trying to explain nuance. the simplicity is not attainable. just i m going to builds a wall along the southern border and
firefight broke out, two u.s. troops were killed in what is now believed to be a friendly fire incident, the remains of joshua roberts and cameron thomas returned to their families. a full investigation now under way on how it happened. back in those mountains, the u.s. is pushing isis fighters southward toward taliban-held areas and the groups are getting into firefights with themselves. officials say that s just fine. jeanne moos on donald trump and what he has in common with elmo. elmo wants to know, how can elmo find out? i never joined in. that wasn t fair to any of us. i was covered. i tried lots of things over the years. but i didn t give up. i kept on fighting. i found something that worked.
the press coverage of this. he s now in a fight with himself and conservatives on this. not even democrats. democrats are on the sidelines watching. they didn t care what the question no. he had a whole bunch of pictures of fences, which by the way i m going to get. fence versus wall is not a semantics issue here. he came ready with all this. yes. no matter what they asked he was going to do this. and this is day two. the office of management and budget had the same thing. look, here s what it is now. here s the fortification that will be here later. this is bad spin. it just is. the reality of the situation, donald trump said a week and a half ago i need $1.4 billion as a downpayment on the wall. congress, including hawks on the republican side said no. i would say rightly that government shutdown is much more disastrous than giving in on this for the moment and they
ever notice donald trump talks about himself in the third person a lot? here s jeanne moos. he s first when it comes to the third person. nobody would be tougher on isis than donald trump. reporter: and this week he did it in a tweet. that s donald trump himself tweeting, perhaps trump just ran a great campaign? which prompted author j.k. rowling to poke the president, i wonder if donald trump talks to himself in the third trump person when trump s alone? if putin likes donald trump. reporter: this is a man who tweeted congratulations donald on his own apprentice ratings. he said thanks donald when c
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