we passed it. the president signed it. it s the law. we appropriate the funds article one. the legislature is responsible for the appropriations bills and appropriations of our nation. the president is required to follow that. so this is not even a close call. the emergency declaration is not for this type of a purpose. i think everyone really understands that. that s why so many republicans have problems supporting the president on this issue, even if they may support the underlying policy that is the border security issue. i m quite confident that when the vote is taken today the majority will override the president. you say so many republicans. right now all we know is that it is these five republicans which leaves you with 46 senators not checking the president on this. i think if you talk, even senator mcconnell acknowledged this is not what should be happening. he will vote with the president but he knows it is wrong.
incompetence. the state of the president s foreign policy is incoherent. the state of our union is in need of drastic repair. bill: tough talk there chuck schumer reading from the floor of the senate. some democrats on the offensive ahead of tonight s address. katie hill is a newly elected california democrat and how are you doing and welcome back to america s newsroom. i m great. how are you? bill: this will be your first on floor of the house, correct? yes, i m excited. bill: we had sarah sanders on. most ears will be trained on the border security issue. now, about 10:00 last night speaker pelosi put out a long email. in that email there were a list of things that democrats are pursuing. they go the following. funding for humanitarian assistance, funding for additional immigration judges. 1,000 new customs officers, new imaging and cutting edge technology. two weeks ago the president
that is not a border security issue. but if you were talking about harris: when he barrier work? a wall, a barrier. as kellyanne conway likes to say, whatever you want to call it. it s a wall is a wall. harris: it s a simple question. will it barrier work? anything that is like a wall is not a border security issue. it s not that it does not solve a problem. i think they are coming to the table. let s invest in technology and more harris: i want to get into chuck schumer here. senator schumer going after the state of the union in a prebuttal on the senate floor. i want to get your reaction. let s watch. what i expect the president to do is ignore reality and spent his own fiction. a looming question is just how many falsehoods, distortions, and made up facts will appear in the president s speech. harris: let s float right into the president s response. i see schumer is already
i want to talk we can talk about that but none of that happens until the border security issue is addressed that s my point. i don t know if you ve been down to the border or not but you talk to the border patrol agents and they all say everywhere we have a physical barrier it helps our job. why would that not be a central component of any agreement? i have been to the border and physical barriers have always been part of border security. buttier ear talking about 1800 miles and you re talking about rivers and miles and a lot of inhospitable tear rain. in other words what do you say we listen to the experts saying here s what a secure border looks like, put some metrics around that. but the experts are saying we need an additional 100 miles of walls in the rio grande valley, i need 100 more miles. where i don t have a wall, that s where 94% of my traffic is. why isn t he getting the money? the president says he needs a
thing in most in all of the conversations we had yesterday, daca as it s called was not part of the discussion. i think that we need to focus on what is in the homeland security bill, my bill which is things like tsa and coast guard but also the wall, custom and border protection. what you do with detention centers and those sorts of things. i think as time moves on, we may get broader in discussions but right now i think if we stay focused on the issue at hand and wrap this up and keep government open we can live to fight another day on things like daca. i ve voted in favor of this. i m not opposed to it but i m not sure that s the icing on the cake. julie: it won t be enough to push it through is what you re saying. i don t think so. julie: let s talk other options. graham said people from 10 countries with temporary protected status shouldn t be given a pathway to citizenship. a lot of people are concerned about a path to amnesty, if you