Trump urges wall funding to fix border crisis in TV address

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Last Updated : Jan 09 2019 | 8:05 AM IST

US President Donald Trump made a televised plea for border wall funding Tuesday night, seeking an edge in the shutdown battle with congressional Democrats as he declared there is "a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul".

Addressing the nation from the Oval Office for the first time, Trump argued for funding on security and humanitarian grounds as he sought to put pressure on newly empowered Democrats amid an extended partial government shutdown.

The US president called on Democrats to return to the White House to meet with him, saying it was "immoral" for "politicians to do nothing."

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First Published: Jan 09 2019 | 8:05 AM IST

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