have been affecting working people in our country for decades, he s turned themm around. the democrat party of today, not the democratic party of the years past, not the democraticty party of bill clinton in the 90s. laura: we know that. how are you going to get the wall built? he campaigned on the wall. mexico is goingo to pay for. mexico iss not going to pay for it unless you tell me something tonight i don t know. r the savings from trade aloe will fund it. i m glad you re bringing up funding issues. just the cost of heroin in our country is $230 billion. just the cost of public benefits for illegal immigrants every year is over 100 laura: we did it, 18 billion just for health care a year for illegal immigrants. that s paying for most of theay wall right there. this is what chuck schumer said about the nafta payment. let s watch. the president repeatedly promised that mexico would pay for his unnecessary and
those with flood insurance will get taken care of. without insurance, fema will be there for you to help you no matter what. and i hate to get back to funding issues. it s what you have to do. these are the resources you use. policy holders and their premiums were supposed to pay for this and the ongoing help that groups like fema and many balked at that. i know it wasn t long ago that the man that headed fema during the obama administration had said, it s damn near impossible for the program not to lose money in that kind of environment i it puts you on defense, doesn t it? it does. we need to put the program on firm financial footing. in other words to do that, we need risk adjusted rates and an affordability program.
he can handle within executive actions and orders and memoranda to get start curbing the problem of executive of illegal immigration, but also, again, it s about we talked a little bit about it yesterday in terms of funding. there s a taxpayer issue here. you ve got the american people out there working, and then having their money sent to places where folks that aren t in this country legally are getting isn t to cities that are there for using their tax dollars. that s a part of it. it s not a one step solution. i think that s why you ve got the wall. you ve got some funding issues. you ve got the vetting. it is not a one step process. it s going to be a multi-tier, multi-step problem. sean, on the supreme court, what is the president s view of he is a name that s circulated. more broadly, does the president feel like the choice should be someone who is in their late 40s, early 50s as a way of leaving his imprint on the court? i think that there have been
executive action and orders and memoranda to get, start curbing the problem of executive, illegal immigration but it s about we talked a little bit about it yesterday in terms of funding there s a taxpayer issue here. you ve got the american people out there working and then having their money sent to places where folks that aren t in this country legally are getting sent to cities that are there for using their tax dollars. that s a part of it. so it s not a one step solution. i think that s why you ve got the wall, you ve got some funding issues, you ve got the vetting, but it is not a one step process, it s going to be a multitiered, multistep problem. sean, on the supreme court, what is the president s views of judge gorsuch, a name that s been circulated and more broadly does the president feel like the choice should be someone who is in their late 40s, early 50s, as a way of leaving his imprint on the court? i think there have been several names that have been
so i m part of a group, anti-violence group called brave. we go out in the community and do different anti violent things but we are stopped by funding issues. i think we need more groups like us and more funding put into groups that are guest violence or are trying to make a change against the violence. and other things such as like jobs. most of the people committing the crimes where i m at and getting the illegal guns and what they re doing is they have no other outlet. they have to do illegal things just to survive. yeah. we ve got to run. but thank you so much. happy new year to you and we appreciate you coming on cnn. that is brave of you, tre. see you guys soon. coming up, the parents of jessica ghawi one of the victims of the movie theater shooting in aurora, colorado.