solution. it is, it worked then and it works better now. israel put up a wall. it might be immediate evil, the president says medieval but it works he says. some republicans begin to worry about the political impact of federal workers not getting paychecks on friday, the president went up to capitol hill a short time ago, to calm nervous republicans. hold them you know you re worried about this politically but i have my heels dug in and i need you to stay with me. much better position than the democrats are. president trump: we have tremendous republican support. i don t think the democrats have great support. they know we need border security, we need to have people stop being killed in a border, and the democrats are losing a lot of support. at this point at least there s very little chance that the president would aside to the
to do what s necessary to protect the american people and uphold our laws. the offer that we put at the president s direction on the table, the offer that was in front of democrat leaders again today, in the situation room, represents a combination of approaches. certainly there s the president s wall, a steel barrier on the southern border, that the president put his number on the table. but we ve also added additional resources for personnel, additional reforms, humanitarian assistance, changes in asylum laws, some of which was informed by the earlier discussions with democrat leaders. we ve been working in good faith over the last three weeks to resolve not just this partial government shutdown, but to address what is an undeniable crisis at our southern border. even the washington post called it a bona fide emergency. we have 60,000 people a month being apprehended at our borders
border security. democrats on the other hand say the shutdown could be over very quickly if the president would agree to sign bills to reopen government and then push off the argument over border security for another day. those are the two positions that the two sides are going into this important meeting in the situation room this afternoon with. and unless there is some sort of tectonic shift or massive capitulation by one side or the other it s likely those are the positions they will come out with and we will be no closer to a deal. the latest argument, made by the president earlier this afternoon deciding ceremony for a bill that had to combat human trafficking, will help curb human trafficking, not allow criminals to simply drive people across the border. listen to what the president said. president trump: we have to get the politics out of this, and go back to common sense. they say it s a medieval
pass and are signed into law, then those parts of the government would reopen and here s the live debate. they re debating right now. they say, we re debating because that s what you do on capitol hill, you have a debate. you get people to come up and say how they feel. but they count votes before they take votes. and the people who count the votes say yes we have the votes. yes we have bipartisan support. are republicans for it, yes. are democrats for it, yes. the leaders in washington are for it, except the president says moving these four bills without broader agreement to address the border crisis is unacceptable, they want to work with legislation that adequately addresses security and the humanitarian kras crisis and gets the federal government up to work as soon as possible. when the democrats couldn t get him to reopen the government, they along with their republican counterparts, said let s try to get these parts reopened, get these parts back to work, get this money flowing.
rosenstein secretly discussed invoebing the 25th amendment and secretly recording the president after the president fired director comey. a source close to rosenstein said they were misunderstood and sarcastic. news from the powerful judiciary committee who said he will do a deep dive on the allegations and expects rosen style to be part of that. for context, the justice department inspector general already has an investigation underway on that issue, shep. shepard: and catherine, the president s new pick to lead the justice department is up on the hill today? right, a handful of senators met with william barr, the nominee for attorney general, this morning with reporters getting a readout on how he ll handle the special counsel report when it s final and other issues. i asked mr. barr directly do you think, bob, mr. mueller is on a witch hunt, he said no. when the report is handed over to you what do you intend to do with it? go through the process of what i