$5.7 billion for a steel barrier at the southwest border. $800 million more for urgent humanitarian needs. $798 million for more detention beds. and $571 million for 2,000 additional law enforcement. now in addition to that, they sent a letter to white house and the letter to capitol hill explaining why they want the steel barrier. the president requests $5.7 billion for construction of the steel barrier for the southwest border. central to any strategy to achieve operation control along the southern border is physical infrastructure to provide re requisite impeddence and denial. it s obviously far short of the $5.7 billion and they want to reopen the government first before they even negotiate any of these issues. that s what the white house has rejected. at the moment, no end in sight.
By outside groups. that s quite a lot. $571 million on house races. the money making more difficult to keep these races focused on what you really want to do for your community. it is about immigration. it s about healthcare an it is about president trump. it is. it is intentionally about president trump. both parties, i don t know parties, but president trump and the democrats made it their strategic imperative to nationalize this election. for donald trump, to bring those voters back out that he won in 2016. for the democrats, because donald trump is the number one issue for democratic voters. it s tough for candidates. it s not always in their best interest for the candidates to have it become a nationalized election. it s harder for you to focus. they don t have the money that the superpacts have. you get drowned out. dana: so much money. i m going to throw a curveball.
This merger would effect the everyday consumer and how much they pay to watch their television and watch their shows, watch the news, watch sports and he said that by 2021, u.s. consumers would be paying something like $571 million more in just that year for cable because of this merger. he s done a lot of modeling and economic analysis and this guy s a very well respected professor from uc berkeley. he worked under the obama administration both in the white house and in the justice department as an economist. so he clearly knows his stuff and what at&t then tried to do on cross-examination was poke holes in some of his modeling and ask him things like, why aren t you using real world data, we have testimony from witnesses who said that certain things wouldn t effect their negotiation but your model said it does. it was very intense and long and a lot of math flying around and even the judge he said, i m going to have to reread all of this testimony before i make my decision.