strong point. i d like to ask you something really quickly back to border security and immigration. yes. obviously leader pelosi and leader shchumer who made it cler we re not going to give trump his money for the wall. do you think the democrats run the risk of looking too lacksx border security? what kind of risks do you see democrats put them themselves in? first of all, i hope we can avert a shutdown. i don t think we re going to go in that direction with all the president s bluster. but i think taxpayers want us to be smart and effective with their fupnds. they were told this big concrete wall would be paid for by mexico. someone else is going to pay for it, fine. we can tunnel under walls, we can throw things over walls and it not effect of.
plan, you d have to understand i won the election and promised safety for the american people and part of that promise was a wall at the southern border. elections have consequences. what do you think. they certainly have consequences and that s really where we are today with the democrats taking over control of the house of representatives, but the previous two years, the republicans had total control of the entire government, the house and senate and the obviously the presidency. during that period of time, the wall was not a major issue. certainly not a 5.7 billion dollar demand for money to build a wall. and so the question should arise, what, why wasn t it done in the previous two years and why do we now hold the entire government of america hostage for $5.7 billion wall? we really need to reopen government. this has become a very, very serious national problem, not just for the workers, the 800,000, but also for people that rely upon governmental services from, i don t know,
the president needs to declare an emergency to resolve this one way or the other? well obviously i d prefer that congress step forward, specifically miss pelosi would step forward and offer a compromise. absent a compromise i do think there s another way to go about it. one thing i ve previously proposed is using the asset for feature funds money taken from drug cartels, drug runners and others which is not subject to congressional appropriation, but which the executive branch can use for law enforcement border security. there s about four to $5 billion that comes in every year to these two different funds. the president could use that to build the wall and that would circuit vent an inevitable lawsuit should he declare an emergency. neil: where does that money normally go? it could be used by law enforcement now and they use it for law enforcement. so you would redirect some of the dollars, but last, we looked and one of the two funds there s about 1.2 billion of unobligated dolla
back, i strongly encourage people to look it up, get on the internet and look it up and you will see the same things that are being said by our president today, the same language was being used by former presidents, by former politicians, on both sides of the aisle, saying that we needed a fence, that we needed a wall, a physical barrier whatever you want to call it. they approved it then and they were saying the same language back in 2006 that the current president is saying now to secure our borders. it s absurd the arguments that are being made right now. neil: so mr. morgan let me ask you something the president just tweeted on this subject. the democrats could solve the shutdown in 15 minutes, he urges call your demonstratesing senator or congressman or congresswoman, tell them to get it done it s a humanitarian crisis. do you essentially agree? 100% in fact neil when i was chief of the border patrol one of the first things that i saw was what i referred to as the humanitarian c
emergency and i hope he doesn t declare an emergency, because if you re conservative you re supposed to be against these sort of actions . remember when obama said pen and a phone people got really upset on the conservative side i think this would be the same thing. neil: even marco rubio says that , you wish the next president could just come in and move the unemployment. if you love the wall, you love the wall so much and you wake up every day thinking about the wall go to sleep every night thinking about the wall even if that s the case you still should be very careful with how much power you re willing to give an executive because the next executive neil: what do you think of that, the might be his only option and it would at least he could go back to his core supporters and say well, i tried. i agree with cat completely. i mean neil: does that worry you in and of itself that he would agree with her? [laughter] it should. no, it s a slippery slope. i don t think the pre