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CABRERA: "I want to bring back our panel to discuss what we just heard from the president as he made his case to try to reopen the government. Simone, we were talking to you right before the president's remarks. This deal as we knew it at the time wasn't fair, even though DEMs would get temporary protections for dreamers and the president would get funding for a small portion of his wall. Did anything you heard change your mind?"
SANDERS: "It did not. The government is shut down, because Donald Trump went back on his original deal. The Senate passed an appropriations deal that did include border security, it did not include money for his wall. When Donald Trump signaled he changed his mind and now he wants money for the wall, the Republican led house in 2018 decided not to take up the bill. When Democrats gained control of the house, Nancy Pelosi put the Republican appropriations bill on the floor. Mitch McConnell won't take up the bill because President Trump is refusing to sign it. Now, Donald Trump conspired with pence and a few others on a few things that may make a compromise. Democrats were not involved in these conversations, so how is this a negotiation? This is stupid. I think the American people think this is dumb. If Donald Trump was to have a conversation about real immigration reform, open the government, there are bills that have been passed, the house has voted nine times. I am tired of this exercise of Donald Trump coming out and saying the same thing he said last week, and we're all going to pretend he said something new. He shut the government now and he and Mitch McConnell need to open that thing up. Let's go."
