President Trump plays chicken with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.

President Trump heads to the border, and he considers declaring a national emergency.

We'll talk about all of it. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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consider the possibility of doing some sort of national emergency declaration. Yesterday.

Yesterday. I have to say yesterday. The president of the United States met with Nancy Pelosi

and Chuck Schumer, both of whom were less than pleased with how the meeting went. Here were their reactions to the meeting.

Federal workers will not be receiving their paychecks, and what that means in their lives

is tragic in terms of their credit rating, paying their mortgage, paying their rent, paying their

car payment, paying their children's tuition and the rest.

The president seems to be insensitive to that.

He thinks maybe they could just ask their father for more money, but they can't.

The president just got up and walked out.

He asked Speaker Pelosi, will you agree to my wall?

She said no.

And he just got up and said, then we have nothing to discuss and he just walked out. Again, we saw a temper tantrum because he couldn't get

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