wants to be blamed for this shut down. so if one side says let s continue to meet, the other side is never going to say no. but when it comes to the basics, you have speaker pelosi, she s now saying not only a wall is a waste of money, she calling it immoral. the president is saying no end to the shut down unless we have the money for the wall. he s backing off what mike pence and others were talking about, split the difference. $2.5 billion. he s talking about $5.6 billion. nancy pelosi seemed to be saying, because remember the house democrats passed two bills, one that would fund all of the agencies except for homeland security until the end of the fiscal year and then another just on homeland security that could kick that down for another month. she seemed to be saying, we re not going to even deal with the wall until we fund the rest of the government. the president saying, no, we
doing border security. a strong argument. i reject the positions that democrats are not interested in border security. they are. there s a compromise to be had and the so-called senators are real senators. i think most people want to have border security probably build a wall and have a pathway to citizenship for the daca residents. i agree with that. somewhere there s a compromise that we should do and we really need to get the government open, pay federal workers, get a compromise and enhance border security. we ll all be better off with a compromise. trace: great stuff. have to go. thanks, doug and amy. thank you. trace: meantime death by drone. new word u.s. forces have taken out a man linked to the bombing of the u.s.s. cole more than 18 years ago. ahead, what we re now learning about the strike.
secretary. he said that s not something that president trump believes he could do. trace: it is up for debate. jeff mason, good to see you. thank you. you too. trace: and updating fox s top story. the show down over the partial government shutdown. lawmakers meeting with president trump began as the shut down hits the two week mark. kristina partsinevelos live on capitol hill. lawmakers are working very hard to evercome this shut down impass. if anything, a lot of gop members are struggling to focus on what the president wants funding the wall and to address the problems with the growing consequences of this government shut down on the economy. here at capitol hill, you had one lawmakers that would be representative garamendi said dems do want border security. listen in. the democrats have repeatedly over the last several years up
conference and actually plead to the house members and plead to the american public the need for the wall. now, they also said they didn t need a wall from sea to sea as the way that he put it but they need it in areas that we currently don t have it in. so it s really disheartening when you hear the democrats acted like hypocrites and not listen to these experts. you have at least roughly three decades of senator schumer, saying verbatim what the president is asking for now. now he s changed his tune. i don t see why they re doing that. i don t believe they want border security. what do you think, doug? nancy pelosi says there s no money for a wall and you have people like the vice president saying no wall, no deal. they pass these bills saying, okay, we re going to open the government but no money for a wall. they know the bills are going nowhere. what is tend game for nancy
tuesday. that means the shut down could last up to 18 days, which would make at this time second longest in history. hopefully that won t be the case for all of the americans without pay right now here in the united states. back to you. we shall find out. kristina partsinevelos live on capitol hill. thank you. let s bring in our panel. amy tarkanian is a former nevada state gop share. doug schroen, a fox news contributor. the president said we can build a steel wall, a see-through wall but i need the $5.6 billion. they go into the weekend, amy, and a lot of people are thinking there s got to be some wiggle room. where do you think it lies for the president? i thought it was brilliant when the president brought in the heads of the border security. they brought in the officers to come in during a press