have been saying it all weekend that they need $5 billion for border security and some sort of physical barrier. a senior administration official briefed reporters on saturday and said that was what they expected from congress. of course, things moved pretty fast around here 24 hours of that briefing mike pence and mick mulvaney were on their way to capitol hill to meet with democratic senator chuck schumer and give him a counter offer. the white house says that offer is somewhere between 1.3 billion and 5 billion. the ball is in the senate s court. of course, keep in mind any bill that comes out of the senate on this topic will have to have 60 votes and democrat support. they are 1.3 yesterday we were 5 billion. we moved off of the 5 we hope they move up from 1.3. democratic source tells fox news the latest offer from the white house is 2.1 billion for border security and that includes new fencing, plus
the calls worried financial investors. sources familiar with those calls tell our colleague blake berman that it was a check-in call and they discussed coordinating agency functions during the shutdown. leland: err on the markets, with allison. we have kirstjen nielsen there on christmas eve, it s unusual to have government business done on christmas eve. where are we on the shutdown negotiations? kirstjen nielsen was supposed to be arriving at 2:00 with other dhs officials to meet and sit down with president trump to talk about border security. right now according to a democratic source, the white house is currently offering $2.1 billion for border security that includes a new fencing plus 400 million for other immigration priorities. vice president mike pence and incoming act acting chief of staff current budget director mulvaney met with chuck schumer
a number that is less than the long table at $5 billion. at 1.3 yesterday, 5 billion a couple of days ago. on the counter offer was between those two numbers. 2.3? we have moved off of the five. we hope that they move up off of 1.3. the latest offer from the white house is $2.1 billion for border security. and that includes new sensing, plus 400 million for other immigration priorities. the source describes it as a flush fund for other immigration priorities. the white house says that conversations with democrats did continue throughout the weekend and continue now. president trump invited seven lawmakers to the white house to discuss border security over lunch this past weekend. members of his administration attended as well. democrats did not. as far as we know, none were invited. he says that it is an issue a border security, i think that we know better. it is an issue of political
states senate in the coming week. the commerce department had the right penalty back in april when they announced that because zte had not only violated the u.s. sanctions policy against north korea and iran once, but they did it repeatedly and then when they were caught, they said they were going to come clean and instead, they engaged in a big cover-up and did it again. that s why the commerce department did what it did and that would be the penalty today except for the fact that president trump then tweeted out that he wanted to help zte and help help save jobs in china and so go ahead. here s what the white house said and the view of the white house is this, the view of the white house is that they think this deal ensures that zte pays a pretty penny, right, a billion bucks plus 400 million in escrow for this violation, but they say that it also prevents harm to