prior military construction funds, but there s getting the army corps of engineers do it, that s 3 approximately about will. then 700 million without an emergency declaration from the pentagon s counternarcotics funds which seems to be cross purposes from what he says he wants to do, and 680 million. so are republicans comfortable with going to other places and him doing an end run around congress? well, the republicans are going to basically make a deal with the president here. stand with us on keeping the government open and we ll stand with you on taking executive action. essentially what the president will argue is that i m the president and it s my job to set national spending priorities within my legal purview and that s what he s going to do. if i may go back to a previous comment about this idea that border security is nothing more than keeping brown people out of the country, i think that is a terrible thing to say when, as you pointed out, john, democrats have voted for bar
with this deal. please, mr. president, no one got everything they wanted in this bill, but sign it and don t cause a shutdown. i hope he signs the bill. and check it. i think he ought to feel free to use whatever tools he can legally use to secure the borders. white house is considering several executive actions to find other sources for border funding. they could take $3.6 billion earmarked for military construction. but that would require declaring that national emergency. also being eyed, $3 billion from the army corps civil works funds which would come from the national disaster affairs. and $700 million from the pentagon and $680 million from treasury for the ffeiture funds. sean hannity blasting the deal.
there s a really important fact here was that congress has congress has appropriated in the past two years 1.7 billion for border security and 680 million of it is unspent. i guarantee you that money is obligated. no it is not obligated. 60% of the 1.7 billion is obligated but 40% is not. he sold people on the idea that he was going to build something because he was exaggerating what it was and he said i m going to build this big concrete wall all the way across and we ll be safe from the brown menace. so he needs the big price tag of 5 plus billion to justify that
offered money. they offered a billion dollars. the president wants more. so negotiate it. don t shut down the government. that s my problem. i agree. you can t negotiate if the speaker doesn t show up to negotiation. she showed up. that s ridiculous. she s giving you 1.3. congress has appropriated in the past two years 1.7 billion for border security. and there s $680 million of it left unspent. so spend that money to prop up the border. i guarantee it s obligated. it s not. it is not. it is 60% of the 1.7 billion is obligated. 40% is not. $680 million. let s say she s right. for the sake of argument. we know what it s about. the president promised a farce wall. he sold people on the idea he was going to build something.
with obama secretary of state john kerry. today he will be sitting across from rex tillerson, a different secretary of state who brings a different message. bret: eric shawn outside the united nations. attorney general jeff sessions on hand today in san diego to witness the off-loading of more than 50,000 pounds of drugs seized by the u.s. coast guard. the 680 million dollar hall marks the record-breaking year in cocaine seizures for the service. sessions says that bost led to the arrest of more than 600 drug traffickers unkept nearly half million pounds of drugs off the streets. attorney general sessions responded to a california lawsuit over the construction of a new border wall. let s hear how he plans to fight that at six. two stings new york city result in a seizure of $30 million worth of drugs. nearly 200 pounds of fentanyl.