something that i think the president s allies on capitol hill are trying to counsel him against with actions against it and whether that is sanction, or troop movement in the region, i think that remains to be seen, but that is something that the president is going to be hearing a lot from, from republicans. andrew, thank you, good seeing you. thank you. we ve heard it before, president trump is touting the idea of a big beautiful wall, but last night, he said it will be built in a state that does not border mexico. your first look at morning joe is back in a moment. who s got the time to chase around down dirt, dust and hair? so now, i use heavy duty swiffer sweeper and dusters. for hard-to-reach places, duster makes it easy to clean. it captures dust in one swipe. ha! gotcha! and sweeper heavy duty cloths lock away twice as much dirt and dust. it gets stuff deep in the grooves other tools can miss. y know what? my place. is a lot cleaner now.
immigration, based on the constitution, it would be hard for the president to shift money from the pentagon that was in the spending bill and all of a sudden, shifted over to pay for the wall. do not underestimate their sheer will of this president to try to make it happen. this stems from two flash points with his political base that came together with that omnibus bill that he was reluctantly signing into law last friday. one, he is under great pressure to deliver on that promise to call what he called a big, beautiful wall and he tried to justify setting that bill to say he was holding his nose over liberal programs for exchange for a big boost to defense money. the president started laying the groundwork for a merger of these priorities sunday tweeting because of the $70,716,000,000,000 cut and to rebuild our military, many jobs are created and our military is again rich. building a great border wall with drugs, poison, and enemy combatants pouring into our
jim comey said three times that the president is not under investigation and we have no reason to believe that that has changed. so that is essentially all that they are saying at this point although we should add that the president has called the probe a witch hunt so we can t rule out the possibility that he may comment on this. all of this is playing out hours after the washington post published leaked transcripts of the president s phone calls with the leaders of mexico and australia. tell us about that. the white house won t confirm or deny the authenticity of allegedly leaked classified documents. clearly the transcripts are a big concern for the president who promised time and again that mexico would pay for a wall, a promise the president appears to be prepared to break. who is going to pay for the wall? it was a key campaign promise
pushed time and again. not just a wall on the border with mexico but a wall that mexico that fully fund. we will build a big beautiful wall, a big beautiful wall and we will have a door in the wall and people are going to come into our country. what are they going to do? nay a they are going to come in legally. who is going to pay for the wall? who s going to pay for that wall? mexico. in transcripts of president trump s january phone call with mexican president obtained by the washington post it is clear there are cracks in that promise of a wall. in the call mr. trump says if you say mexico will not pay for the wall then i donot want to meet with you anymore. i am willing to say we will work it out. believe it or not this is the least important thing that we are talking about but
politically this might be the most important. he stood firm saying my position has been and will continue to be very firm saying mexico cannot pay for that wall. the president s response but you can t say that with the press. the press is going to go with that. you cannot say that to the press because i cannot negotiate under those circumstances. the president appears to chalk up his victory to the state s opioid drug crisis. mr. trump tells the mexican president i won new hampshire because new hampshire is a drug infested den. his words were disgusting. my message is this. he should stop insulting people and instead work with us to get the resources to our state and states all around the country who are also challenged by this