out of these promises, why wouldn t you come here. if you have an illness and you live anywhere in the world why not come to the united states to get free medical care, the finest medical system in the world. it s gonna cause this country to collapse. is a very interesting point because actually from a republican perspective, if you think there may be a certain element of complacency which is well, even if you get president biden or one of these people, whoever, they can t do that much harm because it looks like they might hold on to the senate and the senate can stop them from doing the most extreme stuff and whatever and you ve got the gridlock congress who s divided or as much as we ve had up till now on immigration but then you ve got the reverse of the point that we ve been discussing this evening which is president trump s been able to do a lot of good on his own so a democratic president could do a lot of hom harm on their own. the reason you have to take such a hard stance
because it looks like they might hold on to the senate and the senate can stop them from doing the most extreme stuff and whatever and you ve got the gridlock congress who s divided or as much as we ve had up till now on immigration but then you ve got the reverse of the point that we ve been discussing this evening which is president trump s been able to do a lot of good on his own so a democratic president could do a lot of hom harm on their own. the reason you have to take such a hard stance and secure the border is because this humanitarian crisis has turned into a national security crisis. nobody wants to talk about that. 40 - 50% of manpower is no longer on the line. if you want to harm this country you can t do so after 911 because of the database checks, you can t get a plane ticket because of all the database checks to get a plane ticket.
and there is now dna testing that shows the children are not part of family units. and so i think that is where the administration wants to focus and say, look, we have to focus on the smugglers in these orgsz. we understand that what some of the children are being put through is horrible but they ve been unambiguous about the fact there is an emergency at the border and they are in desperate need of additional resources and unfortunately right now there is a gridlock congress and we just haven t seen it. the numbers today, when you look at the average last year of people in border patrol custody pending transfer of 2,000 per day now somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000 to 17,000, that is not a small increase. that is an unsustainable increase and that is what you heard from the administration and before it becomes worse i m hopeing there is congressional action. some type of supplemental funding like we had during the last time this occurred. look to congress. james hayes, thank
let that sink in for a moment and let s go back to our panel. i want to ask you about your predictions for 2019. joe? in a perfect world, the government back open and infrastructure get done. the greatest likelihood is transfixed by the fueler report and like wise by the democratic house. amy? i see a rocky road ahead for president trump s trade wars. i don t think there s an easy path. i also think we are going to have a long, divisive democratic party that lasts until late spring of 2020 and the party has long hidden their divisions, but they are about to unfold before the public. with the divided government, a gridlock congress and increasingly erratic president
compared to a year ago and now the chinese government is taking steps to boost bank lending to the private sector. all of this an off shoot of the trade war its having with the united states. so you put all of this together, there are reasons that investors are cautious. don t forget, of course, we have the big post mid-term election rally. everybody was cheering, a gridlock congress, lawmakers can t hurt us. guess what, neil? the euphoria is wearing off. neil: incredible. a moody bunch, the investors. indeed. neil: we re going to be up on those developments and implications tomorrow live when we ll be here from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. following the developments. we re also going to be paying attention to what is happening as we speak right now. the president will be landing on air force one in paris. of course, looking back 100 years at world war i, the war that was supposed to end all