BOLDUAN: Congress is racing towards another government shutdown. About a week away. The latest curveball, once again, President Trump. Try this on for size. On the sticking point on the border wall, the president says this now, that, "I often," he says, "state it one way or the other, Mexico is going to pay for the wall. This has never changed." The president says, "Our new deal with Mexico and Canada, USMCA, is so much better than the old very costly and anti-USA NAFTA deal that just by the money we save, Mexico is paying for the wall." So does that mean he doesn't need the $5 billion he's demanding from Congress now? What is going on here? CNN's Phil Mattingly is joining me from Capitol Hill. Phil, I ask you the same question, what is going on here?</s>PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: You know, Kate, one thing we have seen in the wake of that rather explosive meeting in the Oval Office is Democrats have used the president' words against him repeatedly, primarily from that meeting, his decision to take the blame for any shutdown onto himself. They're using that tweet against him as well. Take a listen to what Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer had to say on the floor.</s>SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER, (D-NY), SENATE MINORITY LEADER: If the president really believed what he tweeted this morning, that his new NAFTA would pay for the wall, he wouldn't be threatening to shut down the government unless American taxpayers fund his wall. He can't have it both ways.
Trump Says Mexico Will Pay for Wall but Asks Congress for $5 Billion.