funding, money for the wall for lack of a better way of saying it. democrats have a chance here to work with me and others, including the president, to bring legal status to people who have very uncertain lives. i m not asking anybody to do something new. i m asking people to sit down and rearrange the deal that was offered before. you probably hear this from democrats and republicans. if i m hearing it, you re hearing it. they don t trust they don t want to go into a potential deal like you just described because they re not convinced that the president will pull the rug out from under them just like he did on december 19th when you and your fellow democrats and republicans approved a funding bill that he later said he would veto. even though he didn t say that at the time. we need to start talking again. let s talk about pulling the rug out from inform each other. i ve been working on this ten years.
in other words, then they re not even discussing it over the christmas and new year s breakdown of what could be in that package. would he veto it or not? depends what s in it. the president likes the $5.6 billion in the house package. his incoming acting chief of staff has and his vice president have offered less than that as a compromise. we ve heard nothing in return. a negotiation, by definition, has to include both sides. he s in the white house. he s in washington, ready to negotiate. this is important for border security and keeping the government open. you keep saying wall, wall, wall, because you want wall to be a four-letter word. and we re not being honest about kellyanne, the president is the one who explicitly said in the oval office it s the wall and he said the reason he said in a tweet yesterday you can t cherry pick his tweets. he talked about border security yesterday. he mentioned border security yesterday and mentioned it to me in a phone call i m here
democrats have voted for 700 miles of fencing in 2006, 25 billion for the wall in february, in 2013 we voted for $42 billion for border security, including $9 billion for a wall/fence. the bottom line is, they want trump to lose more than they want the country to win, i fear. at the end of the day there s a deal to be had. everybody is changing their position here and most americans are pretty tired of it. to my democratic friends, there will never be a deal without wall funding and many republicans are going to offer something as an incentive to vote for wall funding that you have supported in the past. you talk about everybody changing their position. i have to ask you about something that seems to be getting lost in this conversation, which is that when you were running against the president in the republican primaries and all through the general election, he did say that this was a campaign promise to build a wall. right. but he also said mexico would pay for it, not the amer
said he would veto. i ve been working on this ten years. democrats have voted for 700 miles of fencing in 2006, 25 billion for the wall in february, in 2013 we voted for $42 billion for border security, including $9 billion for a wall/fence. the bottom line is, they want trump to lose more than they want the country to win, i fear. at the end of the day there s a deal to be had. everybody is changing their position here and most americans are pretty tired of it. to my democratic friends, there will never be a deal without wall funding and many republicans are going to offer something as an incentive to vote for wall funding that you have supported in the past. you talk about everybody changing their position. i have to ask you about something that seems to be getting lost in this conversation, which is that when you were running against the president in the republican primaries and all through the general election, he did say
i m not asking mexico to pay for it. he did. i m asking the american people to pay for it. at the end of the day, i think he ll claim mexico is paying more under the new nafta deal. i m not talking about what he said during the campaign. i m talking about what we can do now to open up a government. coast guard isn t going to be paid soon. dhs is an important national security function. we need wall money. democrats have voted for it in the past. the president has put on the table more than the bridge act, more than tps. i hope calmer heads will prevail. i talked with several democratic senators. there s a deal to be had, i think, if the president would get behind it, $5 billion for the wall, bridge act, tps and legal reform and we could reopen the government and be a more secure nation. real quick, assuming you do take the gavel as judiciary chairman, will you hold hearings on the deaths of migrant children? yes. i ll hold hearings on the deaths of these two children and the