steve: we are hearing there will be remarks in that room. right now they are way back there in that other room it looks like that s part of the security detail. it looks like they are trying to close the door or maybe open the door. abby: we just heard, brian, president trump said iran has brought nations together. iran, nations you wouldn t ever see working together. you think about saudi arabia and now in israel. that is really something to take in. brian: absolutely. iran had big elections over the weekend. billing turnout. 1600 candidates told you can t run. don t let anyone think they actually had a democracy with candidates picked by the people like we do. they do have this great turnout. there is a sense that they do want more representative government and they did what many people say in ruin any a r. secretary kerry shelled all diplomat action including decisive action in syria in order to get this deal done this yawn.
i got to tell you though, the expectations are low for any major break through. although the president did recently double down on his support for a two state solution. so today he is going to be meeting with the israelis. then tomorrow he is going to go over and he is going to be meeting with the palestinian prime minister abbas. but i ll tell you the palestinians in palestinian areas are not happy. they have had hunger strikes, prisoners in israeli jails for six weeks protesting this president s arrival here. they don t want a deal. president trump does, they don t. brian: the problem is you have abbas who has the power and mahmoud abbas whatever deal he did you tell us. who is bringing along the group. abby: president trump says he can do better than anybody he can get a deal done. think about these moments, flying in the helicopter or sitting in the residence of the president there of israel in jerusalem, these are the
thatch thatcher. the idea of republicans now is just come in and sit on it and tinker at the edges and manage it better. what s the they are finding it very difficult the reality is that obamacare is very popular right now. they re finding it very difficult to repeal legislation that is twice as popular as the president and three times more popular than members of congress. once you give somebody entitlement, it s very difficult to take away. ted cruz is right about that. the 2012 election i think was actually the last shot republicans had to actually repeal and replace. once it was enacted, people now have this assumption that it s the government s responsibility to provide them with health care. pre-existing conditions should trump can do this in a second. the entire primary he reinvented republican protect medicare and that was trumpism. if he tomorrow said, my plan is
but because not able to rein in spending, remember all the hand wringing about how it was going to slash the epa, it doesn t do that. and people wonder why do republicans win elections when spending just keeps going up. the democrats last time they were in power, they took a huge political risk to pass health care because they believed it was a norm imperative to give more people access to health care. republicans, the last time i checked when president obama was president said that reining in the debt and the deficit was a moral imperative. when are they going to show some political courage to get that done. it is hard for mulvany to stand up there and say that fencing, a steel wall replacing fencing, it s hard to talk about the president s border wall when this is existing fencing that s being updated.
reporter: mulvany said some of the money was going to a quote, new wall, but it s really just to build up existing fencing. the president s priority was to secure the southern border. reporter: democrats were quick to pounce on the shutdown talk. we don t like government shut downs and we avoid them at all cost. reporter: this budget isn t sitting well with republicans who think they gave up too much to make a deal. there are things in this bill that i just don t understand. this was not winning from the republican point of view. jim acosta joins us now. is the white house going to try to get funding for the wall in the next budget bill? reporter: that s the plan, and keep in mind that this wall is going to cost $12 billion to $15 billion. they re going to try to fight