mexicans were going to pay for this wall. we appropriated about $1.3 billion last year that hasn t been spent yet on extending the wall. there s about 700 miles of border wall already. like almost every democrat, i have voted for increased investments in border security, but to shut down the government of the united states when republicans control the senate and the house and the white house over a fight about border wall money when they haven t spent the money they ve already got seems to me pretty silly. i think we should resolve the mueller bill separately, get it taken up and passed and then work together to resolve our spending issues before the end of this before the current bill runs out december 7th. senator, at the risk of plunging a substantial portion of our audience into instant depression, i want to ask you about your effort to have this legislation to protect bob mueller once again trying to put it forward. my question is why? why would you do it when the