but they won t do it and that s why he did the emergency thing for the fence. why not do it for this that s real. if you and i can agree on this, i can t imagine why democrats and republicans can t come together and agree on this too. it s obvious there s a crisis. the president defined a brown menace all about drugs and terror and people coming to rape and kill us. yeah, everybody realizes. but it s about kids and families. taking care of them. not about guys with bags full of fentanyl on their back. that was an exaggerated issue. they re in there. they re in there but they re not the majority that he painted it as a picture. saying we were a fence way from fixing it. they were never the majority. i know that. anybody that knows the facts knew that but he said it was a
an hour continuing to go over things to try to get more votes in two years. a lot of republicans are upset at the president not because he is doing something unjust and that s getting money through emergency action for the border we are worried about the press denting; therefore, maybe instead of using you re veto we could get money from other areas and maybe get you more money than you needed and stall warts like senator capito from west virginia emergency effort to pull back that emergency action. we will see. steve: yesterday, their appearance on capitol hill was to sell congress because it s up to congress if they buy the emergency thing, that s easy. meanwhile, speaking of congress, the democrats are divide. they cannot figure out what to do about some of their freshman members in particular ilhan omar who over the last two months has had to apologize for smeat anti-semitic tropes and last week was talking about loyalty to israel. she has spoken to nancy
the ballasts that they can see through. neil: and still sounds expensive. do you risk not getting the wall built because it s pricey? you need to be effective. the wall will pay for itself in years. the outstretch of ice. $8 billion and part for detention beds. it means less judges and social service. last year the cost was $116 billion for illegal immigration. you slow it down, it pays for itself. neil: the emergency thing, where do you think that stands? the president was in a tough spot. he was given two options.
mueller s investigation and everything else that could come. by underscoring the commitment to the wall, they hope to keep that base with them. so sam, i guess that s the question. from now until election day 2020, you know, in 2016 the message you heard from trump was bil build the wall. if in 2020, it s okay, i tried. the democrats in congress blocked me. there was this shutdown. i tried to do the emergency thing. a court blocked me. and now you the voters need to deliver a message in 2020 that you need a wall. how do you think that goes over? well, it depends, right? in 2018 they had a variation of this. it was look at this caravan brewing on our southern border. now we need to construct a border to stop it. and we know the results were a 40-seat swing to the democrats
the base that he s trying to impress with the declaration of emergency thing that there s no chance that the emergency declaration will ever result within the lifetime of any of them or president trump, it will never result in the president building a wall from the pacific ocean to the gulf of mexico? the prospect that that would actually do what the president says it s going to do is so far from reality that at some point somebody s going to break it to the people who are supposed believe it but you know what? time s up. we re going to break it to them in this hour. we have neal katyal am who knows more about presidential power than anyone. he has argued in the supreme court, he knows the 21st century version of that. he s going to deal with exactly that question and this is how we re going to break it to them get to it. thanks, lawrence. thank you, rachel. the breaking news of the night is that president trump s wall has been crushed.