Mr. Trump has reasserted that he would not budge on negotiations to reopen the government

until the Democrats agree to fund the multi-billion dollar project to build the wall.

I can't tell you where the government is going to be open.

I can tell you it's not going to be open until we have a wall offense, whatever they'd like to call it.

I'll call it whatever they want.

There's really no incentive, a very little incentive, for the Democrats to move closer to the

president's demands, knowing that on January 3rd, Democrats we take control of the House

for a much stronger hand to push these negotiations.

Hello, I'm Leon Krause from Los Angeles, California. Welcome once again to Trumpcast.

I once heard that every crisis eventually escalates in such a way that it finds a specific name,

a specific face to mourn. It has happened before, if you think about it,

the way the world approached the Syrian refugee crisis changed dramatically after we all

saw the heartbreaking picture of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, the Syrian boy of Kurdish background

who was found face down after having drowned on the sand in Turkey.

Just recently, another brutal picture of a child changed the debate around America's support

of Saudi Arabia in the war in Yemen. It was taken by New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks in Yemen,

and it shows Amal Hussein, a famished seven-year-old barely strong enough to breathe,

her arms thin, her ribs protruding, her eyes lost in a haze of melancholy and despair. She died

a few days later. Now, the Central American migrant crisis has its own name, its own face to mourn.

Seven-year-old Jacqueline Cal grew up in an indigenous community in Guatemala.

According to her family, she dreamed of owning a pair of shoes and learning to read and write.

A few weeks ago, the girl joined her father, Neri Cal, on the long journey to the United States,

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