fulfill his campaign promise to have mexico pay to build it, saying this last night. build that wall! build that wall! we are building the wall, 100%, 100%. [ cheering and applause ] 100%. connell: all right. 100%. we heard that plenty of times during the campaign. where do things actually stand as far as you know with the wall? as far as we know, the most concrete thing that s happening with the wall is the president s visit to california on tuesday. the president initially thought that he could be able to get funding for this wall in a daca deal where he said we will give a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million. in exchange we need $20 billion to build this wall. in terms of where things stand now, given the supreme court decision on daca, we re not going to see anything in that arena probably for the next year. connell: the other thing from the president, a big push
two other groups caught in the crosshairs of this debate. he said it s not only the fault of the fbi, of the trump administration. i don t know there s very many elected democrats and republicans willing to give any quarter of this debate. these activists are so powerful, they are creating a flattening, sanding off some of the corrupted edges of this debate. their access to information, their ability that was loaded with facts. that was loaded with indisputable facts. i think the other group of students that are in washington, students and parents, i think when they sit down with the president, one concrete thing to ask for is his assistance in making this a fact-driven debate. the president can t do a lot, and i don t think he s willing to stand up to the nra. but he can purge some of the falsehoods, some of the smearing that happens online. e can call on facebook and twitter to take off the russian
and we have a president who s been saying the fbi s in tatters and as far as the political argument i do think trump gets some sort of a boost out of this as accuracy asthat is to say but this wasn t the only federal law enforcement oversight that could have prevented one of these incidents. there were two others. one in the charleston shooting where that shooter had information that should have prevented him from getting a weapon where federal authorities did not enter information into the background check system and another in sutherland spring, texas. there is a pattern of these federal authorities or disconnect between local authorities not communicating with federal authorities and i think that s the most concrete thing that needs to be fixed that we know could ve prevented this shooting. you had discussions about background checks in the past tightening some of those procedures. marco rubio, of course, the senator from florida had this to say in terms of background
currently republican appointee john roberts. so hard to believe they are biased against any party. they are not democratic plants? i can tell you federal judges are not easily duped. good point. no matter who they were appointed by to be on the fisa court it is chief roberts john roberts who puts them there. carrie, the one concrete thing confirmed is something that sort of has been denied at least directly to me by some of these intelligence committee members that the papadopoulos investigation was what started the fascination. counterintelligence investigation was launched because george papadopoulos had been bragging that the russians were promising dirt on hillary clinton. so, john, i m a little bit cautious about drawing the conclusion even from the memo that papadopoulos was the sole
and talk to trump about this stuff will tell you that the russia story from the very beginning has driven him crazy. he feels like it undermines this huge historic presidential victory that he had. he feels like it s something designed to take credit away from him and obviously as it s expanded, become a more concrete thing with the investigation, the indictments, it only it only further exacerbates his feeling that he s being unfairly treated, unfairly maligned. we have to look at the timing here. we are at the beginning of what could be a major what should be a major legislative push by the republicans to try to get something done by the end of the year, the end of trump s first year in office, and, you know, we ve already seen that the president has a hard time kind of focusing on policy and legislation. he never seems to learn the details of the legislative initiatives that republicans are pushing on the hill. to now have this these