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Kushner Telling Senators Public Support For Wall Will Grow After Trump Speech

By Nicole Lafond

The President’s son-in-law and senior adviser is reportedly working the phones to mediate the standoff between Democrats and Republicans over funding for President Trump’s border wall.

According to a source briefed on the matter who spoke to CNN, Jared Kushner has put in a call to at least one Democratic senator, suggesting that public support for Trump’s border wall will grow after his address from the Oval Office Tuesday evening.
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/watch-live-trump-speaks-on-immigration-in-oval-office

Trump Promises Border Wall Will Pay For Itself ‘Very Quickly’

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump made a televised plea for border wall funding Tuesday night, seeking an edge in the shutdown battle with congressional Democrats as he declared there is “a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul.”

Addressing the nation from the Oval Office for the first time, Trump argued for funding on security and humanitarian grounds as he sought to put pressure on newly empowered Democrats amid an extended partial government shutdown.Trump called on Democrats to return to the White House to meet with him, saying it was “immoral” for “politicians to do nothing.”

Trump also said the wall will “very quickly” pay for itself, though during the 2016 campaign he promised Mexico would foot the bill.

Trump, who has long railed against illegal immigration at the border, has recently seized on humanitarian concerns to argue there is a broader crisis that can only be solved with a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. But critics say the security risks are overblown and his administration is at least partly to blame for the humanitarian situation.

Trump has been discussing the idea of declaring a national emergency to allow him to circumvent Congress and move forward with the wall. But he made no mention of such a declaration Tuesday night.

Democrats have vowed to block funding for a wall, which they say would be immoral and ineffective, and have called on Trump to reopen shuttered portions of the government while border negotiations continue.
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Pelosi Hits Trump After Oval Office Address: President Has ‘Chosen Fear’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the president has “chosen fear” in making the case to the American people for the border wall and Democrats “want to start with the facts.”

Pelosi said Tuesday night in a rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s Oval Office address that “we all agree that we need to secure our borders.”

She noted that the House passed legislation to reopen government on the first day of the new Congress. But Trump rejects that legislation because it doesn’t have funding for his border wall.

She says: “The fact is: President Trump must stop holding the American people hostage, must stop manufacturing a crisis, and must reopen the government.”
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This is a moment in American history ...

The LITERAL disgrace of the Oval Office in it’s abuse as a sacred symbol to invoke crisis and critical messaging to the American people

Matches the rhetorical disgrace of the official office of Presidency that has been displayed over the last two years.

The amount of hatred, malice, falsehoods, and naked self-promoting present in that speech is baffling.

Even after all this time, I still can’t beleive what I am seeing...
 
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