them. congressman clay higgins, we re glad you re here. this is poppy harlow. point of fact, it s gone down. the number of total illegal boarder crossings has gone down. we ve shown the chart many times. wrong. it s not wrong. how do you count the ones, madam, that you don t catch? how do you count the ones that you don t catch, sir? we re counting the ones that we do catch. and that s what i m counting. congressman, i really we don t want to argue with you, congressman, we want to have a civil conversation so let me ask the question as the team gets the chart and we ll give you the sourcing. my question to you is you say there are not any good faith negotiations from democrats and jim and i see the democrats digging in here and not counteroffering. but was it a good faith negotiation of the president when republicans controlled both chambers of congress and he controlled the white house and he walked away from a deal that would have given him $25 billion for the border
well, we had certainly very challenging endeavors to hand until the 115th congress and the president was very reluctant to sign an appropriations bill in 2018, january, 2018, without the kind of enhanced physical barrier border security that border security agents and law enforcement professionals had stated they certainly needed. what the president moved forward with that in good faith that as we moved into the 116th congress he would receive the requested funding for enhanced physical barrier. keep in mind, madam, and appreciate your offer for civility because this thing doesn t have to continue. we have existing 700 miles of physical barrier. it s old. it needs to be replaced with 21st century hardened difficult to cross and loaded with technology barrier. we ve identified a couple
text regularly, they send me pictures, they send me videos, it s a crisis. it s been a crisis, right? it was a crisis yes, ma am, it s an increasing crisis. why didn t the gop congress when it controlled the senate, the house, and the white house, why wasn t it a crisis last year? why wasn t there an effort to shut down the government then? brother, that s not a sincere question. that s like me asking why didn t when president obama was president and the democrats controlled both houses why didn t they fix daca? why didn t they handle dreamers? that s a fair question for documents, but for republicans we must get the government back open. we must. we must restore full function to the government. it can be done in a 15-minute meeting with any reasonable counteroffer from my democratic colleagues. congress clay higgins, thank you for coming on. please come again. i think we all agree this needs to be solved for the 800,000
as weak or as eyeas a hero? well, there s hope they ll be seen, and what actually happens here. christi, as far as the reality of it, the polls suggest that an overwhelming majority of democrats and democrat-leaning independents think that a wall wouldn t work, that it s just a bad idea in the first place, so, you know and the majority of a solid majority at the end of the day, both dems and republicans say we do need border security. this is about a number, about 5.2 or $5.6 billion that the president is talking about. or it s about saving face politically? well, you know, when it comes to saving face politically, there have been multiple opportunities. i mean, there were lots of compromises that were offered in the 115th congress before the democrats even took the majority, keeping in mind there was a republican majority. and they couldn t get a deal. you know, the reality is, there are a lot of people, especially
and people not thinking about the issues plain and simple. david: so are the democrats and democratic party leadership doing any favors, beto, white is he being attacked for who he is? i say because america historically has basically had white men at the helm of all politics. and i think when you talk about identity policy, we can t just look at race but gender. we know the democratic party, however, historically minorities have been discriminated against and not just the democratic party. and also the republican party. 115th congress you have only one african-american serving in the united states senate and that is a republican. we only have two in the democratic side but still david: who sets the requirements for this? you have one of the most powerful groups in politics involved called the congressional black caucus.