lower wages. secondly, the taxpayer. the total amount, net, even if you take into account taxes illegal aliens play, the total amount we taxpayers is over $100 million. the third category of people who lose are the victims of these thousands upon thousands of illegal alien committing crimes and as president trump pointed out in the discussion yesterday, there s a terrorism risk as well. he mentioned ten terrorists who have come across the southern border. actually there than 15 publicized cases and it s probably higher than that because there are many we didn t catch. we have a very real cost in terms of our security, our jobs, and our tax burden. laura: victor, there are about 40,000 to 50,000 american veterans of all races and backgrounds including legal immigrants who are sleeping on the street on any given night. some about two blocks from where we are right here because there s not enough room in the sheltered so they are in the street.
question becomes what does bannon do now? does he try and continue to ingratiate himself with trump, flatter trump, hope trump takes him back? or does he go rogue and does he start pointing out that trump, in fact, is a phony in terms of his alleged populism, and really isn t doing anything for the kind of downwardly mobile, angry, white working class voters, who are bannon s constituency who supported trump so fervently. that s going to be really interesting to watch. at some point, if bannon is p persona non grata with trump and threatened to lose his job at breitbart? what does he have for himself. he s more of a racist populism than trump it. a clip i want to play. citizens united. somebody who served on the president s transition, and he was asked about michael wolff
and i ll tell you something, chris, right now there s a lot of suffering and dislocation in houston. what i m seeing there is just some extraordinary bravery of people coming together. and by the way, i hope trump learns from that lesson. that in houston right now, people don t care whether you re black or white or latino or you re gay or straight. people are helping each other, which is what this country is supposed to be about. people in houston are coming together and hope trump stops dividing up the american people. well, he would say and his supporters say that he doesn t have that lesson to learn, that he was just being fair about violence being on both sides when it came to what happened in charlottesville and that he s not a divider. he s a uniter. what do you make of that? well, i happen to strongly disagree with that assertion. when the president of the united states talks about nice people, quote/unquote, nice people on both sides, let me be very
to the russians about doing a deal on syria, coordinating forces. the hope trump can seal the deal. and hope, too, what donald trump said during his campaign, some kind of agreement can be reached about crimea or at least moved away from the center of the relationship between the united states and russia. of course, russia annexed crimea from ukraine and nato expansion. trump and russia appear to share similar misgivings about continued expansion of that military alines. so a lot of expectation. the problem is, of course, in reality, once trump takes up his position inside the oval office, he may not be able or willing to deliver on any of those issues, spoken from a russian point of view. could be a lot of disappointment here in moscow over the next several months is what the presidency actually means, as it becomes apparent. clearly hopes it will bring improvement in u.s./russian
cici in new york he really took control of egy egypt, it was good chemistry. reporter: wolf, you know, words matter in diplomacy, especially now that trump is president-elect. india, pakistan s arch enemy, is trying to make sense of the report of this call, but for now, is taking a tongue in cheek approach, saying it does hope trump will help pakistan with its biggest outstanding problem, terrorism. thank you very much. let s get back to our panel. gloria, what do you make of donald trump s what his critics are calling inconsistent treatment of these foreign leaders in these congratulatory phone calls? i think it does sound like he s winging it. when you welcome president, when you have these phone calls, every word is usually strategic.