in the the neck and that hurts him sometimes in terms of reaching people, they don t hear his ideas. maybe this is one of those cases, the president has put a plan on the table. i think he is willing to trade boarder security for daca relief. he has talked about the importance, as has speaker pelosi, of securing our ports of entry, for example and the use of technology in terms of border security. the times i ve talked to the president on this issue he s never been angry with spoker nancy pelosi and he s always told me look, i m willing to sit down with the democrats to try to work something out here. this is not meant to be a political statement, this is just my point of view. i think the ball here is in speaker pelosi s court. and she s got to decide whether she thinks or wants thinks a
attend the meetings because she s calling the the shots behind the scenes and i would probably get everybody out of the room and i would say madam speaker, look, let s cut to the chase here. are you going to agree to any sort of wall, barrier, fence, whatever the politically correct term is, whatever the term she s most comfortable with and if she s willing to work with us, we can come up with an agreement. it would probably include other forms of border security. it would include some sort of legal protection, my guess is, for daca. but if she s not willing to do that for whatever reason, she doesn t think it s necessary, she doesn t want to do it because of the politics, we re wasting our time and it s time to move on. i think what will happen if that happens on the 15th is the president will declare a national emergency, it s not my preferred choice but unlike some of my senate colleagues the sun
exchange for some kind of daca relief. that deal was offered, you know, on the table before with democrats a year ago and the president didn t want it because miller pulled away from it, and there s not much indication the president would support it, and it s not a accident sean hannity said, and again, democrats are not in the mood for that deal. they will say that was a deal that was open a year ago. i think it depends on what we are talking about. it depends on the number of people that would be impacted. if you reached a high number of daca recipients or dreamers that would be affected, you could see some movement toward that deal, but it s not going to be at the numbers that existed before. let s just reset for a moment. if they are open to making a deal on the dreamers and daca, they are open to now calling it border security, not a wall. what more is there to haggle
gets that done. $5 billion doesn t make sense when there is so many other needs. understood. we had a democratic congresswoman on last week who also doesn t love the wall idea. but she said, look, i think we meet in the middle. i m willing to give $2.5 billion towards this if we get daca relief. if you are going to truly work together, the president wants $5 billion for the border wall. you have 81% of republicans in the new cnn poll that support a wall. only 7% of democrats. i get that. but you represent more than just democrats, right? you represent your constituents. are those 81% wrong, or should democrats give a little more on this? i think when we talk about policy, we ask, well, what is our ultimate goal? and it s clear the ultimate goal here is border security. and that must be coupled with comprehensive immigration reform, which we strongly support. so i believe you can accomplish the goal of border security.
rights and the justice program at the women s refugee commission. what do you make of this? you listen, the justice department says we are doing that in some cases. this is exactly why you need to pass the goodlatte bill. it s a well thought out rational policy that is systematic and covers all of these bases. the left, we will give you 700,000 daca relief. bring the kids out of the shadows, that s compassionate. trump even went beyond that, he said to millie. the left says no to that deal. what we are trying to keep from happening as we want to be compassionate to the people in the shadows, but if we keep showing compassion over and over and over we send a signal and put out a green light, keep coming from honduras, guatemala, south america, central america across the border illegally, then you don t have the rule of law anymore. and that we have to be stiff on. we need to send a very clear signal and when president trump first came into office of the border crossings went way down.