Border Wall

They "almost seem to have like a sexual fetish for a cement wall …  a big beautiful erection of a wall," S.E. Cupp said, taking aim at Ann Coulter and others.

"We lost the election in November and now we've lost six weeks to get our strength back, to get our position back," GOP Representative Peter T. King of New York said.

"So let me get this straight, you were convinced Donald Trump was the guy, you voted for him…and now you're finding out he's a lying con man?" Maher asked his guest.

The overall cost of the shutdown just surpassed the amount of money Trump repeatedly requested from Congress to construct his long-promised border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

In a speech on Friday, the president said he will shut down the government again or declare a national emergency if a border wall deal isn't made by Feb. 15.

The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, which President Trump has signed, guarantees that federal workers will swiftly receive back pay.

"Overall, more Americans now oppose expanding the U.S.-Mexico border wall since last asked in 2016," the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reported.

"This is your fault," Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson reportedly told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at a private Republican luncheon.

There are still hurdles to jump when it comes to hashing out the details.

It's unclear where lawmakers and the president will go from here in order to reopen the government.

Most of the group was composed of family units, according to a CBP spokesperson.

A Washington Post report describes the rising influence of the president's son-in-law.

Former cartel members testified that narcotics were hidden in shipping containers, passenger cars with hidden compartments, trucks, tanker trains and even cans of jalapeños.

"That is not a Christian gesture," the pope has said about the president's claim that Mexico would pay for the wall.

"We urge Congress and the Trump administration to break this deadlock and improve public safety by reopening the government without delay," said a letter signed by 44 law enforcement officials from across the U.S.

"I was doing fine with him up until this government shutdown," said Jeremiah Wilburn, a 45-year-old operating engineer from Michigan who voted for Trump.

"We get that this is unfair to you, but this is so much bigger than any one person.... It's going to be for the future of our country," said Trump.

"Marist/NPR/PBS Poll shows President Trump's approval rating among Latinos going to 50%," Trump tweeted on Tuesday.

Representatives of two major aviation unions warned that mass flight cancelations could soon occur if the shutdown drags on.

"Martin Luther King Jr. was a bridge builder, not a wall builder. Martin Luther King Jr. would say, 'Love, not hate, will make America great.'"

"There's no way to look at [MLK's] history and align it with this administration," Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, told CNN.

The government shutdown is now into its 30th day.

"You could open the government tomorrow," Chris Wallace repeated several times.

"Amnesty will be used only on a much bigger deal, whether on immigration or something else," the president tweeted.

Coulter wasn't happy with Trump's offer to exchange extended DACA protections for his proposed border wall.

Not only is San Antonio 150 miles from the border, it doesn't have a wall.

Prior to Trump's announcement, which was leaked and reported by numerous outlets, Democrats had already rejected it as a "non-starter."  

On the 28th day of the partial government shutdown, Texas Republican Rep. Will Hurd described the hype around illegal border crossings as a "myth" and slammed the president's proposed border wall, calling it a "third-century solution to a 21st-century problem."

Rumors of Muslim prayer rugs along the Mexico-U.S. border have been a staple of right-wing anti-immigrant talking points for years and were even a plot point in "Sicario: Day of the Soldado."

"If you liked the president's border wall, wait until you see his space wall," arms control expert Joseph Cirincione said.