so if i were democrats, and i was acting cynically. i d say, here s $5 billion for a wall. go to it. it s not going to be built in a year. it s not going to be a wall. it s going to be fencing. and if you take congress 2019, you can pull it back. so the thing is, the amnesty, it will happen immediately and once it s written into law, it will never be taken away. but a wall is like a ten-year project. the secure fence act of 2006, didn t happen. i have to run, i m suffering a terrible cold. what was the crux of your column today? it was very compelling, don. i recommend you read it. it was in politico, and i just i argue at greater length, the point i just made, democrats want to get this deal, give them something on the wall. thank you, rich lowery. i won t shake your hand, because i don t want to give you this. when we come back, much more on the president s plan for immigration overhaul.
optimistic, let s get along spirit, he would be in a much better place. this happened repeatedly on the campaign. he loses track of his own brief. he said i will sign anything congress sends me. you could literally hear people pulling their hair out. it s just, you re giving away every ounce of leverage you have. i knew immediately they were going to pull him back. of course, today they did. they pulled him back. the original transcript, they scrubbed the line where he said, yeah, i ll sign anything, and then put it back in. if they re trying to hide that when there are reporters in the room, and it was broadcast live. do you think his core supporters who are screaming build that wall, do you think they would be upset or feel betrayed if that if there s a compromise with democrats? i think it s the single most important promise, and i think he s desperate to have anything he can call a wall or the beginning of a wall.
immigration, he sounded flexible saying, i think my position is going to be what the people in this room come up with. today he is saying the bill has to include the wall. will it be a win if the wall only covers a short distance of the border if it s a fence in some places? will the base buy that? i think they will, but i think it will take the president selling it to them, that hey we got the bricks and mortar and the parts where bricks and mortar works, in parts where you need other types of security, we got that. essentially we got the wall, plus we plug the hole on the job magnets by using everify, and we stop chain migration. you admit he s not fulfilling a full promise here? i would admit it is not a complete brick and mortar wall which people i do believe envision who attended his rally, so i m glad you said that, because that was my point with
obligations. passing budgets and budget agreements. these issues become overly dramatic, very time-consuming and frankly, it s utterly unnecessary. there s so much polarization that it leads to a paralysis that can be crippling to the legislative process, and frankly to the country. that s a bit of my frustration, to be sure. yeah. that s a perfect segue for my next question then, that bipartisan meeting on immigration that was held yesterday. the president said he would sign the bill, whatever bill was brought to him today, he says there must be a wall. is there room for compromise here? and what s your message? is there room for compromise. and then i ll ask you the second part of the question. on immigration? yes. he s saying there has to be a wall. he didn t say that yesterday. members of your party are saying, there s got to be a wall component. people like dianne feinstein want a clean bill without a wall component. is there room for compromise here? absolutely. in fact,
just a slightly bigger fence. and again, it s america s right to do that. bill: do you think they ve backed down from the tough diplomatic speak that was a month or two ago? yes, i do. and i think that the mexicans know that trump is serious. he is going to build a barrier of some kind. whether it s a big, beautiful wall that he talks about, whether it s a great big fence, i don t know. you don t know. but trump has to deliver on this. it was one of his key election pledges. it matters. bill: with a big, beautiful door. absolutely. bill: thank you for coming on today, nigel. shannon: there has been a turn in the battle for mosul as we learn american troops have been injured in the fight there. what else we re learning from the pentagon plus this. (chanting) bill: the town halls are