two secondses. it doesn t matter because we need 10 democrat votes. had the us have our conversation and you can meet with the press again, but the fact is that legislating, which is what we do, you make your point and you state your case. that s what the house republicans can do, if they had the votes. there are no votes in the house. the major votes for the wall. that s exactly right. if i needed the votes for the wall in the house, we would have it. then go do it? don t put it on the senate. put it on the negotiations. we are doing this in a friendly manner. it doesn t help for me to take a vote in the house where i would win easily. you will not win. it doesn t help to take that vote because i m not going to get the vote of the senate. i need 10 senators. you have the white house and the senate. the white house is done and the house would give me the vote
for border security. do you worry about the politics of a president of your party saying he is proud to shut down the government? no, because i think it s clear the american people are seeing what this is about. this is about politics. the word wall. about that structure being the politics that is dividing the nation. what we need to do is get past that. the number they are putting on the table, they are not putting it on the table to do what s right to secure the border. they are putting it on the table to avoid the politics. that has overtaken the issue. if you don t have a secure border, you have american citizens threatened by the criminals and the threats that are going unchecked right now. how do you square that after your party passed tax cuts last year and we saw the federal deficit jump to 7 fi$779 billio. you said between between that for the wall.
the wall. we do not want to shut down the government. you were called 20 times to shut down. i want to shut down the government. we don t. we want to come to an agreement. if we can t come to an agreement, we have solutions that will pass the house and senate right now and will not shut down the government and that s what we are urging you to do. not threaten to shut down the government. you don t want to shut down the government. the last time you shut it down you just say my way or we shut down the government. we have a proposal with republicans and democrats will support to do a cr that will not shut down the government. we urge you to take it. if it s not good border security, i will not take it. it is very good. we have 60 people of the republican party are losing offices now because of the transition. people are not and we gained in the senate. nancy, did we win the senate? we won the senate.
simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. more now on the wild clash between president trump and democrats before the meeting with chuck and nancy, as he calls them. tweeting the wall will get built, but the demand ran into opposition from democrats and the stalemate could trigger a partial government shut down. he made it clear he is not budging. and i am proud, i will tell you what. i am proud to shut down the government for border security because the people of this country don t want criminals and people with lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country. so i will take the mantle. i will be the to shut it down. i m not going blame you. the last time you shut it down,
if i wanted it. i need 10 votes from chuck. let me say something here. let me say one thing. the fact is you do not have the votes in the house. nancy, i do. nancy, nancy, we need border security. of course we do. people are pouring into our country, including terrorists. we caught 10 terrorists over the last very short period of time. these are very serious people. our border agents, all of our law enforcement has been incredible. we caught 10 terrorists. these are people looking to do harm. we need the wall. we need more important than anything, border security of which the wall is just a piece. it s important. did you want to say something? we have a lot of disagreements here. the washington post gave you a lot of pinnocchios because you constantly misstate how much of the wall is built and how much is there. that s not the point. we have a disagreement about the wall. not on border security, but on