schools are packed. crazy, the president making the point emphasizing yet again this is a problem without yet a solution and no one really willing in congress to work with them. jedediah: he s tired of trying to stress the humanitarian crisis and something needs to be done in fact the white house has gone so far as to send a letter to congress saying the situation has continued to deteriorate and is exceeding previous high-end estimate and it is necessary to obligate funds at a rate that will exhaust amounts currently available to fund services that involve the safety of human life , protection of property, and the immediate welfare of individuals ed so i think the president feels very stuck because he s not getting any help from democrats at all, they want their talking point but now everyone knows this isn t a manufactured crisis. everyone sees the numbers growing, and everyone is saying hold on a second someone needs t do something about this so hopefully the president will get h
they ve been sitting around when something could have been solved here. ed: you make an important point, it s a manufactured crisis to well, yes it s a crisis but a humanitarian crisis. they don t want to admit it s a border security crisis because then they would have to admit we would need to have money for the wall so the president in that letter i think among other things is calling out congress, democrats but also republicans. jedediah: that s right. ed: saying where is this money for the humanitarian crisis get more beds, more immigration judges to adjudicate all of this for people who are actually seeking asylum the right way. let s deal with all of this. put your money where your mouth is. you have joe biden out there as the democratic front runner yesterday in philadelphia accusing president trump of separating kids and doing all of these things when tom homan is saying wait a second, time out. i was the i.c.e. director serving at i.c.e. during the obama/biden administration a
your husband or your wife whose life was so cruelly shattered and totally broken. to every member of congress, pass a bill that ends this crisis. steve: and the president said call your member of congress. we ve called up sarah sanders, she s the press secretary to the president, joins us live from the north lawn. sarah, good morning. we know the president s going to meet with chuck and nancy and other top republicans and democrats later today, around 3:00. last night it was so clear, the president is fighting for the wall, and they are fighting against it. it just doesn t look like either side can budge, or they re going to look bad. it s actually more than that. the president s fighting not just for the wall, but he s fighting for border security. he s fighting for the protection and the safety of every american citizen. and the fact that the democrats want to continue to live in denial and pretend that things that are coming across this border that bring harm to people
steve: president trump made an emotional plea for border security in his first prime time address from the oval. this is a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul. steve: white house press secretary sarah sanders with reaction next. i switched to stimulant-free miralax for my constipation.
the constitution, to protect the people of this country. let s hope they get serious about it and we see some of that this afternoon. steve: okay. and he s going to have lunch with congressional republicans up on capitol hill, then tomorrow he s going to go to, we believe, mcallen, texas, to survey what s going on at the southern border. he s making the case that there s a crisis down there. and last night while he did not, sarah, mention declaring a national emergency at the southern border, that certainly remains an option. the big question is how likely, given the fact that that if he does that, it could probably reopen the federal government. certainly still an option, something that s on the table, that s something that we are looking at. but at the end of the day, the best solution to fix this problem is not just a budgetary issue. we have legislative fixes that need to take place, and we need congress to help us do that. so we re hopeful, again, that they ll get serious abou