dealings with russia. the president is temporarily backing down from his threat to declare a national emergency over his border wall saying congress should come together to figure out wall funding and reopen the government. joining me, ron johnson of wisconsin, the chairman of the senate homeland security committee. thanks for joining us. the washington post is reporting that president trump has tried to keep secret what was said in private meetings with vladimir putin, going so far as in one instance to take away his interpreter s notes. the story says as a result, u.s. officials said there s no detailed record, even in classified files of trump s interaction with russia s leader at five locations over the past two years. the fbi investigated whether president trump was working on behalf of russia against american interests. does any of this concern you? let s start with the idea there are no detailed records of those conversations with an adversary like russia. well, good morning
voting to give this president $25 billion, including money now it was open ended. you could build a wall, use high technology. $25 billion. if there was a national emergency, did it occur now, and let me say the same situation at the border exists today that existed in february 2018. this is what i mean. this isn t what you mean. you don t know what i m going to say. let me finish and then don t interpret what i m going to say. don t interpret what i m going to say. let me be very, very clear. $25 billion, this president worked so that we could only get 54 votes, including very progressive. and secondly, the crisis at the border is more humanitarian. i was in congress in 1993. it was 1.6 million people getting detained at the border. it s down to 400,000. so there it isn t an emergency. you know who is coming? people leaving almost these
or no, declaring a national emergency? i would hate to see it. using that act would be, in this instance, would be far larger act than has ever occurred in the past. i d prefer not, primarily because if we do that, it s going to go to court and the wall won t get built. i want to see this wall get built. i want to keep pressure on democrats to come to the negotiating table in good faith and fund what they have supported in the past. all right, senator ron johnson, republican of wisconsin, chairman of the homeland security committee. thanks for joining us this snowy morning. we appreciate it. as potential 2020 candidates start to debate health care policy, are cities and states leading the way? the mayor of new york city says he can guarantee health care to everyone. he ll tell us how, next. the day after chemo shouldn t mean going back to the doctor just for a shot. with neulasta onpro patients get their day back.
if no compromise is able to be reached, would you support president trump declaring a national emergency to be able to fund his border wall? a better solution would be to pass our shutdown fairness act which is going to pay those individuals that are being forced to work because they are essential. so i ve got a piece of legislation. got about five co-sponsors already. we ll introduce it tomorrow but it will pay those workers that senator warner is concerned about. hopefully mitch mcconnell will bring it up. hopefully democrats can support it and president trump can sign it so those individuals can get paid. beyond that, assuming the shutdown continues, would you support the president declaring a national emergency? i would hate to see it. using that act would be, in this instance, would be far larger act than has ever occurred in the past. i d prefer not, primarily because if we do that, it s going to go to court and the wall won t get built. i want to see this wall get
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