it will be less obtrusive and stronger. under the way the law is written right now it is technically not a wall. do you think this is a wall? the white house s answer is yes, we do. in a letter to democrats they called it a wall. a physical barrier wall. perhaps the only thing more ridiculous than a wall that isn t a wall but really is a wall is claiming that it desperately needs to be built and it has already been built. the work has already been done, they say build a wall, i don t say that any more, i say finish the wall. we have done a lot of work. no new sections of border fencing have been built under this president. none, absolutely none, that brings us to one of the administrations core arguments for why they need the money they claim to already have.
not. that s right. and there are a lot of people who are just elected in the house who come from districts that donald trump won by two, three, four points, who don t want to be seen as soft on border security or they re going to be vulnerable next time around. so i think something that includes less than $5 billion, but some amount of money for border security that nancy pelosi can say, this isn t a wall and trump can say, this is a wall. i think that s the only way out of this. isn t that offer already on the table, though? aren t they offering a billion and a half? $1.3 billion. yeah. that s obviously not enough. right. so you re saying they would have more money than that. because they have basically said, we support border security, we ll give you this money, but we re not going to give you the money for the wall and that s where the $5 billion comes in. ultimately, the big solution, obviously jeff flake used to say, all these democrats in 2013 voted for somethin
this. he has said it was going to be many miles. it s rehabilitated existing fencing. there is nothing new. he has told people we have started building the wall and he has contracted some certain number of miles already. what i wonder because i listen and read every statement he makes on the wall is whether or not he will in the end reopen the government with a deal that he calls a wall that isn t a wall or whether he actually wants to stay on offense about a wall into mid-to-late 2020 and use it as an election issue. ed: is it becoming a semantic debate? john kelly made some headlines by telling the los angeles times we determined a long time ago is not really going to be a cement wall. part of it has to do with the border patrol saying we don t want a cement wall. want to be able to see the other
it will be beautiful and at the same time give our country the security that our citizens deserve. so he s really into the design of this wall, but that isn t a wall. that s a fence. but go on, steve. no, he s a builder. listen, that is trump the builder. trump the entrepreneur. i love that. it s funny. i ll be be the first to say it. but i love it. he builds amazing structures. he s done it his entire life. the most amazing well, look, we can get hung up on whether you call it a wall or a fence. if it has slats in it and it s 30 feet high going build it on his own time. don t waste our time with it. don t waste taxpayer money. let him finish, maria. i promise you ll it s not here s why it s not a waste of time because a government shutdown you re right, maria. a government shutdown would hurt some people and would hurt them temporarily. but there are people being hurt permanently in the united states. angel moms. angel dads who have lost american citizens i ve go
question, steve. i m answering your no. i don t care steve, we re not going to get off track here. i asked you what happened to mexico paying for the wall and you go off track. was the president wrong? mexico s not paying for the wall? does that part of the promise not matter? i do not know. it doesn t matter to me. that s what i m saying. very consistent on your show for a very long time. all right. here s what the president tweeted why he said democrats are the democrats are saying loud and clear that they do not want to build a concrete wall, but we are not building a concrete wall. we are building an artistically designed steel slats so you can easily see through it. it will be beautiful and at the same time give our country the security that our citizens deserve. so he s really into the design of this wall, but that isn t a wall. that s a fence. but go on, steve.