and neither side is budging on the wall. the president says if democrats don t act, he will. i will declare a national emergency. the chairman of the homeland security committee, republican senator ron johnson, responds in moments. and step right up. more democrats throwing their hats into the presidential ring. i am a candidate. i have decided to run. who can win the progressive wing of the party? new york city mayor bill de blasio will be here. hello. i m jake tapper in new york where the state of our union is alarmed. two major breaking stories about the russia investigation are consuming all the oxygen in the political world, even amidst the longest government shutdown in american history. overnight the washington post reporting that president trump has gone to quote, extraordinary lengths to keep specifics ability his meetings with
but it s a winning trope for him. s.c., what we re hearing here at the table is this is just about racism. well, there s certainly some of that underpinning this, but the president, let s be real clear, the president lost. he lost this issue. he lost it last year politically because he wanted to tweet and rally more than he wanted to govern, he lost his opportunity when he had republicans who would help him get this on to his desk and he s losing now. and you know he s losing because they re doing the spaghetti on the wall trick, let s see what sticks. well, maybe we will declare a national emergency, well, let s float the idea of using hurricane relief money to fund this. let s see what will work. and nothing has worked. the democrats are not coming to the table, they re not seeing religion, well, we have to give them a wall. they don t have to. that might change, again, public polling might change on this and push them back to the table, but as it stands right now the
wall. it was the winning trope. what we re hearing at the table is this is just about racism. well, there s certainly some of that underpinning this. but the president let s be real clear, the president lost this issue. he lost it last year politically because he wanted to tweet and rally more than he wanted to govern. he lost his opportunity when he had republicans who would help him get this onto his desk, and he s losing now. and you know he s losing because they re doing the spaghetti on the wall trend, let s see what sticks. well, maybe we ll declare a national emergency. let s use hurricane relief money to fund this. let s see what will work, and nothing s worked. and the democrats are coming to the table, they don t have to. public polling might change on this and push them back to the table, but as it stands right now the president has lost, and
claim from his election, better border security, keeping this nation safe. democrats have voted for this in the past. this could be solved in 15 minutes as the president has said. just fund the barriers which we need. we re out of time, but i want to get you on the record. 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 still continues, would you support president trump yes
$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