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democrats hammer and tong and take the low road. terrific point, david gergen. this agreement comes 20 minutes before the president is scheduled to take the stage for what will be a political rally and as political rallies are full, often, of divisive rhetoric, that s texas senator ted cruz right there, the president s old foe, now friend, who does support the president s moves on the border wall. kierstin powers, to you, what do you think democrats will need out of this proposed deal from the 17 appropriators? well, that s the big question. obviously there s been a hang-up in the number of funding for i.c.e. detention beds. the question for me, is this a hill they re going to die on or is this something they re willing to give on? a lot of people have said this is something they inserted at the last minute. i m told that s not true, that this is something that they were negotiating after the government
but the republicans believe if something has broad support, the president will be hard-pressed not to simply reject it. he could declare a national emergency to try to get funding for his border wall, do it that way. he certainly won t get the $5.7 billion he has demanded for the wall. but right now, a lot of optimism about there not being a shutdown part two. joining me now, cnn political analyst kierstin powers, adolfo franco, and former adviser to four presidents, david gergen. david, what we know is they re telling us there s an agreement
and actually unilaterally on the additional money, that s going to be a serious political problem even though the government won t shut down. we have to wait and see what he s going to say about this, when he learns the details of the deal. i m fascinated about whether he will learn those details in the next 18 minutes, before he takes that stage here. absolutely. really? absolutely. very important. not to mention beto o rourke, former democratic congressman from texas, he will be speaking and this could shift the parameters of what he says, kierstin. what do you expect to hear from him? from beto? yes. he certainly knows about this issue, el paso. it s where he lives. it s something that he s intimately familiar with. anyone who has ever talked to him about it knows that he s very passionate about it and very knowledgeable about it and can easily rebut, frankly, a lot of the claims that the president is making because he s right there on the ground. and the way the pre
especially, paid for by the mexicans, especially, and continuation of putting more barriers up of the kind that we ve seen under the obama administration. i mean, to proclaim this, the president got something really, really measured out of this, i don t think fits the facts. he is likely i m sure they will not describe this coming out of there on both sides as a wall. maybe the republicans will call it that, but the democrats won t. they ll call it a barrier. and there is a distinction. david gergen, adolfo, kierstin. thank you so much for being with us. as i said, this got a lot more interesting over the last few minutes. also, more breaking news. a former white house insider is now suing the president. we ll tell you why, when we come back. i was getting all these leaves and i was going back generation after generation. you start to see documents and you see signatures of people that you ve never met. i mean, you don t know these people, but you feel like you do. you get connec