jacqueline, let me say thank you for your ten years of serving this great country ask we look forward to you going back to work. thank you. thank you. it makes meso angry. a u.s. official says the trump administration is actively examining using billions of unspent dollars dedicate ed to disaster relief to build this border barrier. it would be part of the president s declaration of a national emergency, an option that s still alive at this point. senator lindsey graham is now advocate i advocating for trump to do that. now that funding talks have been broke b down. en down. during the obama presidency while opposing his executive order on immigration, mitch mcconnell said this is about a president going too far. this is wrong. it will do damage to our efforts to fix a broke b immigration
get democrats that vote for some things, to get some things across the finish line, what about the timing and what about the week ahead. i still think we are going to get through. i don t believe they ll be a shut down. i hope you re correct. i hope that there isn t a shutdown. we shouldn t be politicizing the the economy and the health of the american workers and that s federal workers and private workers that will be affected by government shutdown. we shouldn t be doing that. we shouldn t be holding people hostage and i do believe daca, if democrats want to work in good faith there s still opportunity to do it. he s probably the most transactional president. what about the democrats who try today link daca to some of the funding talks, feeling they have leverage because democratic votes will be needed to get things across finish line, how does that play out, does this get separated, we tried on daca, let s do it in march, where are
our plan is to oppose it and go to the american people and say the democrats need to work with us to fund our national security and our intelligence systemand ensure our military isprepared in case of an emergency. going to the american people and making the case that democrats are being irresponsible, shutting down the government and doing the things they pledged not to do only a few years ago will be effective. that s the section of that strategy. democrats , their only leverage it to try to get daca in these funding talks with that on friday, they are under the gun with that court to get this done. they regoing to drag it out. the democrats i spoke to , they said they re pushing this week to get it done in those four days to hammer out some type of deal.