being considered right now. the president said there are many different types, including concrete. so i don t know if he actually saw this but he said that was from the previous administration and a number of different types of wall or barrier fencing are under consideration. the president is also claiming that democrats mischaracterized and that reporters did not properly sort of describe meeting he had with speaker pelosi and leader chuck schumer. did a lot of reporting on that. both parties have in large part had very much the same story. the president seems to be refusing the idea he was somehow slamming the table or angered in some way. he s talking about the fact this was him walking away from democrats who according to his view are not willing to deal on the border wall. davos, the world economic forum,
all right. we re going to air that the president speaking to those reporters. a fired up president. i think all of this, the drama that s going on, remember what the president is. a tv producer. he is flanked by bill shine, former president of fox, who has said this will be fun. let s take a look at the president. is it fun? we re going to the border. just spoke to some of my friends in arizona. we have tremendous support. the republicans are extremely united. they all want to see something happen, but they are extremely united. and i don t think i ve ever seen unity like this in the republican party. the media, which i call the opposition party, a lot of the media, in coordination with the democrats, they re not talking about the democrats. for instance, this morning, a number of people came out and said you do need very strong border security. that includes a wall or whatever
days of sun per year. i believe strongly that we can move into a renewable energy economy, and i would want nothing more than to work on legislation that moves that forward. so unfortunately, we are stuck in this government shutdown right now. i feel like it s taking a lot of air out of all the other issues that we would like to see passed. and i will do my best to keep those issues in the forefront as well. but we certainly this is the top priority right now. congresswoman, thank you so much. all right. president trump just finished speaking to reporters at the white house ahead of that visit to texas. kristen welker was there asking questions. she joins me now. kristen, what happened? it was a fired up president trump, steph, as he prepares to visit the southern border. a number of headlines that came out of his back and forth with reporters. he was pressed on whether he s now going to issue a national
not to notice. seems a huge misjudgment. president trump has been speaking on the south lawn to reporters just ahead of his trip to texas. we still have our colleagues talking with the president.sendl notes here. he is talking about these issues we expect today, where he s saying it is still a possibility where he would declare a national emergency, bypassing congress, to try to get funding for his wall. he was also asked about the reporting that s been in your broadcast here from our colleague jacob soboroff, showing the steel slates and an intrusion there. the president responding to a question. he said those were wall sections from the previous administration. it s my understanding those are some of the prototypes that are
answer to that is yes. there are seven different committee chairmen summoning him to the hill. that wants a piece of this. and they think mnuchin is critical in terms of providing information. you ve got the conflict issue where he himself personally has to answer questions and then in his roles, treasury secretary, not providing information they need. do you think they would i don t know, this smells to high heaven. it s always the case. just russians. they did it on december 19th which was right as lawmakers were leeching town for the holidays. mnuchin and his secret service detail were headed to cabo during the shutdown. congress only has 30 days to act. that was two weeks they lost right there. did reporters ask mnuchin at