Right now. Martha good afternoon. Im martha maccallum. This is a huge 180 from the president. The white house is scrambling to spin this afternoon over the move to do exactly what they said they wouldnt do, build a border wall on the southern border. Dhs says there is an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers to prevent unlawful entry. Completely contradicting. This from the president in the oval office a short time ago. Watch this. Border wall money was a pronated for the border while. I tried to get to redirect the money. They didnt. They wouldnt. Meantime, theres nothing under the law other than that they have to use the money for what it was appropriated. I cant stop that. Do you believe the border wall no. Martha no. We have to untangle this. Moments ago, reporters went after Karine Jeanpierre. She said she hadnt seen the memo that was put out. The president is looking at the numbers and realizes something must be done. Watch this. Remember this . How is this cons
place in washington right now. so the president goes with a 1600 page cr, continuing resolution that he is forced to do. he has been in office 100 days. he is coming in to a situation that is fundamentally broken and is he trying to manage that while manage repeal and replace obamacare, tax reform, dealing with all of these foreign problems that he is having to deal with because, again, barack obama leaves it all on the table for him. brian: this is the framework that he put out, president obama put out. and up to the president each shut down the government or compromise. this is a severe compromise no. border wall no. deportation force no. e.p.a. roll backs. no sanctuary city funding or crackdown? first of all, there is $1.5 billion in there for the southern border security. for a host of issues. ainsley: as long as it s not a wall. the democrats don t want to call it a wall. so the president is starting with 1.5 billion in this current cr.