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a win? it feels like there s a lot of semantic arguments being made on either side. reporter: for watching at home that will say this is a silly semantic argument, they would be right. government isn t holding up funding over a policy issue, this is a political issue. he needs to find some suitable off ramp to get the government running gwen but to also show his base that he hasn t caved. what we have seen over the past week or two, at this point, is mick mulvaney, lindsey graham and john kelly tried to engineer an off ramp for the president to take. they have been trying to fudge the line between border security and a border wall. just today the president blew that all up saying this all concrete border barrier has never been abandoned. it s not just the american people, the majority of them who are against this border wall, it s also officials in the department of homeland security who says when it comes to securing the border you need
in that continuing resolution there would be $1.3 billion for border security. none of it for a wall. this allows the democrats to come back in and say we re serious about solving this problem. we re serious about getting this done and challenge the senate to do the same. if it was good enough to fund the government, all the government until february 8th, ought it not be good enough to take this bill s and fund it through the next year. they said we won t take anything up that the president won t support. it s tough to see the president getting behind this. no matter what you call his wall, border, fence, slats, barrier. beaded curtain. reporter: none of those is funded in this deal. it puts pressure on republicans but seems unlikely to open the border all the way. they are offering border security, is the president going to take that idea of just border security and try to turn it into
which makes beijing very uncomfortable. there have been editorials in the global times saying if the united states were to launch a preemptive strike that china should actually step in. so the rhett writ heating up. if beijing were to think that the u.s. were serious about a military option, would they be more willing to go beyond what they ve done over the last many years that has proven to be very ineffective. i was in north korea last week, we see whine these cars, chinese products on store shelves. china has a lot of leverage, but the u.s. has leverage over china given the hundreds of billions in trade. you saw the tweet from president trump, by the way, saying the u.s. might consider cutting off trade from all countries that trade with north korea. obviously that was a thinly failed threat there. will, you ve taken to north
trump is up to. i don t think this is a secret plot. if he wanted to, he could have ended it tomorrow. right, sure. errol, isn t it that his hand is being forced by these ten state attorneys general. look, the president i think has been publicly conflicted about the dreamers and also publicly said he wants to do it with compassion, keep families together. is it really there was this looming legal battle so he had to act this weekend? his hand is being forced. he would rather not have to deal with this. this is where rhetoric meets reality. this is not new, the dream act was first introduced in 2001, almost 18 years later, we re no closer to consensus. i don t think congress wants this, despite what speaker ryan said. i think he s going to have a ticking time bomb handed to him, a grenade he s going to have to start juggling if it comes to him.