i don t think it s a good idea. i think it would be a terrible idea. i hope he doesn t do it. would you fight him on it? sure. i don t think we ll have to fight. i don t know they ll end up doing that. it s an option they looked at. you are at the mercy of a district court somewhere and appellate court. it may not withstand if you look at the other rulings. and the precedent that s set. it is not a good precedent to set in terms of action. it doesn t mean that i don t want border security. i do. i think it s the wrong way to achieve it. so for the next 2 1/2 weeks negotiations about the next step for a border wall, bill, will be contained within a conference committee made up of republican and democratic senators and members of congress. we have a conference committee including senators and house members. they re already structured ready to meet. they are the ones that have in the past approved as recently as last year in the senate more
well, or first of all, what he did was put on the table things that have already been rejected by both the house and the senate before maria: well we are going but they have been rejected. maria: what about the bridge act? i believe the democrats voted for the bridge act, and many of these proposals were part of the bridge act, congresswoman. you know what s going to happen next week, maria? we re going to put on the house floor six bills which have been negotiated by senate and house conference committees to reopen the government, reopen those six other agencies. then let s get in the room and have a real discussion about how we keep this nation safe. you know, i don t know any democrat that doesn t care about keeping our nation safe. we do need to have border security maria: well, let me stop you there, congresswoman, because you say you don t know any democrats who don t want border security, and yet none of them voted for kate s law, none of them voted to end sanctuar
one-tenth of a percent impact per week as a result of the government shutdown? i mean, i recognize it hasn t really hit the private sector yet, but when that happens, that would have an impact on broad economic growth, right? it will have an impact. again, that s why let s we re putting the bill on the floor this week, let s get it done, and that ll take care of it. more more you think you ll have the votes necessary next week, on tuesday or wednesday? it s going to talk some work, but this is a compelling package. we re offering compromise maria: when you say work, what do you mean it s going to take work? you re going to try to yeah. there may be some provisions in there that they may want to adjust, add or change a little bit. but at the end of the day, we ve got to continue to work the find that compromise and get it done. and this package that the president s put forward, we worked with him to do it, is a good package. we can get to a resolution, end the border shutd
nancy pelosi, and that s why she s the speaker. what were you trying to say when you just said no? i was trying to say that i thought we needed a better process, that we really needed something that represented what at least my constituents wanted when i spoke to them. they said, you know, we really hope that we get somebody new that doesn t have maybe some of the pre-existing ideas and feelings and attitudes towards, you know, some of the folks that are there from the past. maria: are you willing to allocate some money toward some kind of a barrier fencing given the fact that nancy pelosi already has a wall in her own state? yes. i ve made that clear. maria: you are. we are a nation of the rule of law, and we do need some type of barriers. and as we ve all said ad nauseam with, you know, in some places it may be electronic, some places it may be drone, some places it may be an actual wall, but we do need to insure security. that is part of the deal, and it s something that we sh
something that represented what at least my constituents wanted when i spoke to them. they said, you know, we really hope that we get somebody new that doesn t have maybe some of the pre-existing ideas and feelings and attitudes towards, you know, some of the folks that are there from the past. maria: are you willing to allocate some money toward some kind of a barrier fencing given the fact that nancy pelosi already has a wall in her own state? yes. i ve made that clear. maria: you are. we are a nation of the rule of law, and we do need some type of barriers. and as we ve all said ad nauseam with, you know, in some places it may be electronic, some places it may be drone, some places it may be an actual wall, but we do need to insure security. that is part of the deal, and it s something that we should do. and i think that there s a great number of democrats as well that really believe that that is maria: and real quick, do you think $5.7 billion seems reasonable? it, if it s