entire federal government hostage because all he wants for christmas is $5 billion wall that mexico is to pay for is reckless and irresponsible. and how long could this shutdown last, do you think? mark meadows was saying in the last hour, there may be no end in sight. this could last a while. is that is that something the american people should be bracing for at this point? i believe the first crack in this in this situation will be when the democrats come into the majority status on january 3rd, and i believe one of the first orders of business will be to pass a funding bill and send it over to the senate. will it be something the president wants to sign though? that will be up to him, but but he created this crisis, hand now he wants to blame somebody else for it. don t democrats though have some responsibility in all of this? if you come back next week, if you put out a bill that you know the president is not going to sign, might you alternate point
than $5 billion in wall funding. mr. president, will you move from 5 bill ton to 2 billion for border security? well, as you know, we ve already built a wall and will build a lot more. will you come from the 5 billion ask to 2 billion in. here s the problem that we have. we have a problem with the democrats because nancy pelosi is calling the shots, not joe. will you accept 2 billion instead of 5 billion? i m not going to talk about it now but i will say this. we have been building a lot of wall. reporter: even on his first trip as president to a u.s. combat zone, are trump s penchant for politicizing the military continued. as soldiers looked on he once again attacked democrats and pitched his border wall. we want to have strong borders in the united states. the democrats don t want to let us have strong borders. only for one reason. you know why? because i want it. the president also drawing criticism for rallying troops with a lie about their salaries. you just g
be open to some blame here that you re perpetuating this shutdown? i think that s sadly i think that s feeding the false narrative coming out of white house and the republican enablers in the united states congress. democrats didn t create this crisis. we had a responsible bill that was bipartisan that passed the senate unanimously a week ago, and with respect to the shutdown, have we all collectively developed amnesia? i watched on television as did you, jim, the president of the united states say to chuck schumer and nancy pelosi i will take responsibility for the shutdown, blame it on me, he said. you won t have to take responsibility. now all of a sudden don t you have to take responsibility to some extent to find a solution? well, of course. we think we have a solution which is responsible border security but not some symbolic multi-billion dollar wall that isn t going to work. so when chuck schumer says, mr. president, you re not getting your wall, you re never going
look to cut the i.c.e. budget. less funds, less arrests, less deportations, more catch and release. i think it s going to be a struggle with the house under democratic control because they don t want immigration enforcement. jesse: let s take a look at the caravan, some stragglers beat everybody to the punch. they made it to tijuana. how easy is it to climb the wall? they are sitting on top of the wall, straddling it, they fall and then they scurry back when they see any sort of presence on the other side. it s kind of a joke, isn t it? geraldo: i think a new wall would be kind of a joke also, a 30-foot high multibillion-dollar wall can be easily defeated by a $25 31-foot ladder. what i m relieved is that the demonization of this group of people jesse: wait, wait, wait. are you saying that the prototype doesn t prevent against ladders? i think they took that into consideration.
long time. reporter: though the president is sounding a bit more hawkish on russia after the british government finding that moscow was behind the poisoning of an ex-russian spy on uk soil. it sounds to me like they believe it was russia and i would certainly take that finding as fact. reporter: but he says it s too soon to condemn moscow. as soon as we get the facts straight, if we agree with them, we will condemn russia or whoever it may be. reporter: the president spent part of the day inspecting prototypes for the multibillion dollar wall he envisions for the border, the one he vowed mexico would fully fund. we have a lousy wall over here now but at least it stops 90%, 95%. when we put up the real wall, we re going to stop 99%, maybe more than that. reporter: all this as washington is bracing for more white house turmoil as the president teased this season of the apprentice is not over. i m really at a point where we re getting very close to having the cabinet and