the republican side will be joined by three more. without a spending deal, the government will shut down friday at midnight. without a daca deal, 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers face possible deportation after march 5th thanks to president trump s decision to end daca. today, capitol police arrested 82 people seeking to prevent the deportations in the rotunda of the russell senate office building. republicans want to pass a short-term bill to fund the government without any protections for those 800,000 people. many democrats are refusing to play along unless the d.r.e.a.m.ers are protected. the overwhelming number in our caucus have said they don t like this deal and they believe if we kick account can down the road this time, we ll be back where we started from next time. so there s very, very strong support not to go along with their deal. for his part, president trump is attempting to place the blame for the possible shutdown on anyone but himself. today he described the
they report his attorney bill burke was asking the white house counsel s office by phone during the tuesday session whether his client could answer questions. bannon s lawyer was on the phone with the white house as bannon was being questioned. unsurprisingly lawmakers on both sides were frustrated by his appearance. the white house says the whole thing was just standard operating proceed your. that s the same process that is typically followed. sometimes they actually have a white house attorney present in the room. this time it was something that was relayed via phone. and again, was following standard procedure for an instance like this and something that will likely happen again on any other number of occasions not just within this administration but future administrations. it s unclear whether this was in fact a typical process. we do know that even with all white house efforts to keep him quiet, he still slipped at least once according to axios bannon admitted he had had con
anyone else in the united states congress. my understanding is that net inflows have reached a low in the last 10 or 15 years if you look at that period of time. we ve increased border spending every year. if there s fewer border crossings and less people coming over, why do we keep expanding the amount of money we spend on it? well, so in the last year, we have seen apprehensions decrease. what you don t know you don t know, you can t calculate. we can t see at any one point in time what is happening along our border. we know, for example, along our coast, the coast guard is only able to action 30% of the intelligence that they receive on drugs being smuggled into our country. that s a pretty terrible number. so one, we should make sure we understand what s coming back and forth. again, i would rather use technology or a smart wall which only costs about half a million dollars a mile versus a 30-foot high concrete structure that
what s that line about kasowitz and what part are we seeing an what he the iceberg for ndas. one of the things from the weinstein reporting that was one of the major tools in the tool kit that kept it appears to be hundreds of women who he allegedly raped, assaulted quiet because they were locked into contracts. we know of one nda here, maybe another or a few. we don t know the total number. that s right. that s the entire point is to ob cure the total number. there was a report by the daily beast, jessica drake came forward with accusations of solicitation by donald trump before the election. someone reached out to her. her manager told the daily beast she has an nda. she called the daily beast back and said i spoke out of turn. there are certainly indications there may be other ndas out there. we know, you said this, had he campaign volunteers sign ndas. this is a tool he used and the question is, if this is an
have seen apprehensions decrease. what you don t know you don t know, you can t calculate. we can t see at any one point in time what is happening along our border. we know, for example, along our coast, the coast guard is only able to action 30% of the intelligence that they receive on drugs being smuggled into our country. that s a pretty terrible number. so one, we should make sure we understand what s coming back and forth. again, i would rather use technology or a smart wall which only costs about half a million dollars a mile versus a 30-foot high concrete structure that requires $24.5 million a mile and for all those folks watching on tv that aren t math majors, that s a difference of $24 million a mile. a final question for you, congress hurd, since i have you here and you had a sort of remarkable experience yesterday in which steve bannon came in and his lawyer s on the phone with the white house. he was subpoenaed there on the