back in june. we have a lot to discuss. let s begin with lauren fox live on capitol hill with the shutdown i guess negotiations. reporter: good morning, john. trump administration trying to respond to democratic criticism this morning laying out their list demands and playing fast and loose with facts about terrorism trying to make their case for the wall. president trump standing firm on his demand for $5.7 billion for a border wall. again, insisting that he s considering funding the wall through executive action. i may declare a national emergency dependent on what s going to happen over the next few days. reporter: declaring a national emergency could allow the president to bypass congress and use military funding to build the wall. but democrats insist this move would be challenged in court. look, if harry truman couldn t nationalize the steel industry during war time, this president doesn t have the power to declare an emergency and build a multibillion dollar wall
week. no major progress after three straight days of meetings over the weekend. the border wall still the barrier to the deal. on understansunday, the white h out budget requests including $5.7 billion for what they are calling a steel barrier and $800 million to address you are xwentd hugh m urgent humanitarian needs. mike mulvaney admitting that the president took the concrete wall off the talks on friday. call it a wall, call it a fren fence, the president doesn t care, he even offered to let the democrats help him design something. he said as long as it is effective, he doesn t care what you call it. the president now weighing whether to declare a national emergency at the border to fulfill its signature campaign pledge, that idea facing swift pushback from democrats. look, if harry truman couldn t nationalize the steel industry during war time, this
2019 agenda strategy session in which the wall and shutdown as you can well imagine drew top billing. that will continue to be the focus here again today. sandra: what s the latest on the outreach to congressional democrats? you saw over the weekend the vice president, mike pence, was very busy not just meeting with congressional staffers from the offices of chuck schumer and nancy pelosi but also making his broad overture to democrats in general. they want this to get done somehow, some way, they want to make sure that as the interest continues in this story line of whether or not we ll get funding for the wall, can we reopen the government, they want to do all they can to figure it out together. by the way, there are democrats on capitol hill that say listen, this idea of declaring a national emergency. it won t work. here is adam schiff. look, if harry truman couldn t nationalize the steel industry during wartime this president doesn t have the
with acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, and one of the things that mulvaney and i were talking about was the deliberations about the president potentially fund the border wall. what do you make of that? what do you think? i make of that really threatening talk from the president that he doesn t have the power to execute. look, if harry truman couldn t nationalize the steel industry during wartime, this president doesn t have the power to declare an emergency and build a multibillion dollar wall on the border, so that s a nonstarter. and i think that what the president needs to do more than anything else, he s painted himself into a corner on this thing, is figure out how he unpaints himself from that corner. we need to reopen the government. we need to put people back to work. and i think senator jones was making a very important point, which is really something that i m very focused on as well, and that is, we can t allow this continual process that was really modernized by the te
whether he can actually do that, lawmakers disagree. i may give that really threatening talk from the president that he doesn t have the power to execute. look, if harry truman couldn t nationalize the steel industry during war time, this president doesn t have the power to declare an emergency and build a multi-billion dollar wall on the boarder so that s a non-starter. unfortunately the short answer is yes. there is a provision in law that says the president can declare an emergency. both of those guys, democrats, mind you, earlier today in washington vice president mike pence and other administration officials met for a second straight day met with congressional aides, many of them democrats, talking about how to navigate their way out of this. this from the president just a few minutes ago. vice president mike pence, he writes, a group had a productive meeting with the schumer/pelosi