totally effective while at the same time beautiful and if you look at that a lot of people out there saying this could work, actually. pete: part of the reason while the steel slat versus the wall is because if you get 1.6 billion as it s currently written, it has to be a design that was already approved by congress. steel slats already approved by congress, so you can get a wall. if you get the 5 billion for wall funding then it can become the prototypes that the president wanted. all washington semantics and differences. listen, a wall like that works pretty darn well. griff: those washington semantics. pete: they happen to matter. griff: we need to do something on our border. when you hear the head of the border patrol and cpp we have a problem spiraling out of control and we have to address it whether it s steel slats or concrete wall which is what democrats wanted to make this a negative political football. you either address it or you don t.
right? jedediah: no armageddon, as far as i can see. pete: it ain t happening. for my two cents the more d.c. is uncomfortable the better. we are going to show information about previous shut downs. i think the one under oklahoma most recent to ours is 2013. i had to google it what do you remember about these shut downs? everyone got paid? everything is fine. everything rumbled forward. armageddon not really happening, jedediah. jedediah: what you remember is that the democrats try to paint these scare at that time ticks every single time something major comes up whether budgetary issue, the debt, immigration they come in with scare tactics. sometimes it works as far as how it plays out in the public. trump took a lot of heat initially because people thought he was walking it back and not digging his heels in. we elected you to be the guy who does something and follows through outsider who gets stuff done. he is digging his heels. in people are hoping he
the money is there. pete: i got it wrong last hour. i said the go fund me page was at 4 or 5 million. it s at 15 million right now. pete: jedediah great point. what they spent money on. i live in washington. i get accused by all people of being a swamp creature. pete: you are my favorite swamp creature, griff. griff: thank you. when you look at those ridiculous expenditures earmarks. just last year they spent 14. congress that is spent 14.7 billion on earmarks but can t find 3 million, which is the difference between where we are in this negotiation that by the way our hearts should go out to the nearly 800,000 federal employees who will be foreload who may go without a paycheck. they will get that back. history of previous shut downs. at the end of the day, you look at they will spend three times the amount of money we are talking about the security of our southern border but yet they have money. pete: your heart will go out to them. they will get paid. everything is going to be
clear cut plan on what the withdraw with entail. pete: you mentioned uae and saudi arabia and turkey that are going to fill the vacuum for us. a lot of people watching this program say whoa, that doesn t sound like much of a solution knee. the bottom line is are we going to leave u.s. troops there indefinitely? that s that wasn t the mission. the mission was to kill isis. there is a couple other things we need to worry about. qatar has been funding al qaeda in syria a long time. they are supposed to be. we need to put serious pressure on them. they are not acting like an ally. if we tak ask the people who live there to help. both israel and france have agreed to step up. it doesn t always have to be the u.s. sometimes people who have a dog in this fight can step up and help as well. pete: that s a good point at what point do regional actors take responsibility for what s happening in
that will be out of here. cooler air and still breezy conditions. maybe a few delays in the airports across the northeast because of that wind and we will have left over delays from yesterday. most of the country looking good. yesterday was the worse of the travel days. today good. more moisture coming in today across the pacific northwest. tomorrow, another day, that s looking good. pacific northwest. only problems rest of the country. no airport delays. the roads are going to be looking good as well. if you are thinking all right, i want a white christmas. maybe if you have snow out there already you have a little bit. this is the precipitation that will fall through tuesday. no going anywhere across the east. out across the west we have a better chance of a white christmas in arizona than we will around here, guys. pete: rick, stuff santa back in the box. he is not coming out of chimney quite yet. that s a cripple any in the front, right? i never even saw that. pete: i was watchin