includes $5 billion for a border wall can somehow pass. we ll get the latest in a moment from the capitol hill team. but remember, folks, this is two years of the trump presidency, many ways summed up in one day. he is blaming democrats for not sending him a bill with what he called perfect border security except for one problem, his own party, republicans not only control both chambers of congress for the next two weeks, they ve been dealing with his wall proposal for the last two years and yet to find the money for it. if he doesn t have support for a border wall by now in his own party, it is on him and his fellow republicans. here we are. the president won t sign a deal without funding for a wall. the senate doesn t have votes to pass a deal with funding for a wall, and house republican conference is just a mess. we don t know if a third of them will show up. one member told us they re literally watching his twitter feed to figure out what the heck is going on, quote, because that
from the right wing this morning. but the flip side is that rank and file republicans, the ones who the speaker, paul ryan and leader kevin mccarthy can usually rely on to take tough votes that help leadership, they were saying, look, why would we do this if we don t know that the president is going to sign it. the president has not put out any definitive word. kasie never mind, sorry, steve scalise was speaking. it was very brief. sorry to interrupt you. reporter: no worries at all. to pick up where we left off, those rank and file republicans are saying we need a guarantee from the president. everybody went out onto the house floor. they were trying to start counting the votes and what many of these people were saying is we just need the president to tweet. one republican lawmaker was very frustrated with that. he said that s what the expletive serving in congress has come to, that they are simply waiting around for the president to tweet something so that they can decide wha