Who are you and what have you done with Andrea Mitchell? The usually reliably liberal MSNBC host on Wednesday pushed Senator Tim Kaine to compromise with Republicans and the President on the wall. She also indicated that liberals may simply want to deny Donald Trump a win.

After Kaine trotted out the talking point that the government must be reopened before anything can be solved, Mitchell demanded, “Is there any compromise that would involve dealing with the border security issues first? Because that's apparently what [Trump] is saying in this Oval Office moment today.” The MSNBC host noted the “criticisms from Republicans that there's been no give on the Democratic side.”

She also highlighted, perhaps in a worried tone, the way in which Trump could win by declaring an emergency: “If he declares a national emergency at the border and wants to take Pentagon money, he's got a lot of leverage. You could challenge him in court, but unless you get an injunction this thing could start [building the wall].”

After Kaine insisted that some sort of compromise is possible, Mitchell told him that “involves something for a wall or a fence or something.”

During CBS’s live coverage of the address to the nation on Tuesday, Mireya Villarrea indicated that opposition may be driven by Democrats who want to deny Trump victory.

It seems as though a few journalists are coming around to the idea that compromise may, in fact, be a two way street.

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