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than anything you're going to get off the rack. Okay, well, I want to start today with a piece,

a couple of pieces of breaking news. A piece of breaking news, number one, is that President Trump now

says that he is not going to, in fact, go through with a government shutdown over the border wall.

This is according to spokeswoman Sarah Sanders.

She said this early on Tuesday.

The White House, according to the Washington Post, wants to avoid a partial government shutdown

and has found other ways to get the border wall President Trump is demanding, according

to Sanders.

Sanders' comments came four days before large portions of the federal government will begin

to shutting down unless Congress and Trump reach a funding deal. Trump has been demanding $5 billion from Congress for his border wall, which Democrats refused to give. But Sanders told Fox News Channel, we have other ways we can get to that $5 billion. She said, at the end of the day, we don't want to shut down the government. We want to shut down the border. Sanders said the White House was exploring other funding sources and believed it could be legally done. She says there are certainly a number of different funding sources we've identified we can use

that we can couple with money that would be given through congressional appropriations, and that would help us get to that $5 billion the president needs in order to protect our border. Okay, well, if that's the case, why hasn't he done it so far? I mean, really, if it's that easy, he's been in office for nearly two years at this point,

why doesn't he just fund the border wall? This was his number one promise to all of his constituents, who was his promise to the American people, is that border wall was going to get done. And he originally promised Mexico was going to pay for it. Mexico's not going to pay for it, but at least it was going to get done, right? Well, it hasn't been done. We've replaced some of the border fencing with better border wall, but that's about it. So if President Trump believes he doesn't need a new congressional appropriation, then what exactly has been he been waiting for over the past couple of years? And if he does believe that he needs that congressional appropriation, then why in the hell is he caving to a Democrat Congress? Maybe he wants to do this again when there's a Democrat Senate, right? I guess we'll wait till 20, 21. I mean, when exactly does he want to have this fight? There are people who are big Trump boosters, people like Ann Coulter, who are livid over all of this because she says, listen, he made one promise, and that was this key promise, and now he won't even go up against Nancy Pelosi in the House in order to get it done. Or Chuck Schumer in the Senate in order to get it done. Or fellow Republicans in order to get it done. He's not willing to bear a little bit of pain in order to prevent the vast number of people who are trying to cross that border illegally. And it's especially dumb if you're going to signal like this. It just proves that you don't have any you don't have any bite to back your bark. And the fact is the president of the United States, like two days ago, went on national television with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. He says, I'll own the shutdown. I'll do a shutdown. I'll do a shutdown. Happy to do a shutdown. And Schumer said no. And Pelosi said no. And then Trump was like, okay, guess we won't do that. How exactly is that the mark of a great negotiator? How is that the mark of a man taking a strong position and then sticking with it? Really, if you are a border hawk, how can you be okay with this? I don't really understand. Now, maybe you say that the border wall wasn't that important to begin with. Okay, that's a position. Maybe you say that what we really need to be doing is focusing on deportations

as opposed to physical barriers. Okay, fine. You want to make that case, make that case. But that's not

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