Were going to be starting those negotiations relatively soon, and we will be in a form reimbursed by members of the jury mexico. So the american taxpayer will pay for the wall at first . Well be reimbursed at a later date from whatever transaction we make from mexico. Mexicos president said in recent days that mexico absolutely will not pay adding that it goes against our dignity as a country and our dignity as mexicans. He says i think he has to say that. He has to say that. But im just telling you there will be a payment. It will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form, and you have to understand. What im doing is good for the United States. Its also going to be good for mexico. We want to have a very stable, very solid mexico. When does construction begin . As soon as we can. As soon as we can physically do it. Were in months . I would say in months, yeah. I would say in months. Certainly planning is starting immediately. Later this hour, the president signs another executive actio
all right. about a half hour briefing by sean spicer, the white house press secretary, making all sorts of news that i want to make sure we can assess. joining us right now jeff mason, the white house correspondent for reuters, david, our cnn political director, gloria bo borger, our cnn chief political analyst. he was very forceful in defending the president s decision to go ahead and seek some sort of federal investigation, for example, on voter fraud, which the president has suggested is massive and a lot of illegal immigrants were voting. he suggested the other night, what, 3 billion to 5 billion. no evidence of that. no. he is going forward with a full scale investigation. we don t know how that investigation would take place. there has to be a complaint according to justice correspondent pam brown for the justice department to investigate it. would he ask congress to do an investigation? congress seems uninterested, including republicans seem