we were in the white house last week, and nancy pelosi was saying you re not going to be able to pass a $5 billion wall cr, basically the idea was they needed money for they needed votes from democrats to pass the cr. and part of that was the conservatives had all these ideas about asylum policy riders. there was a lot of conservatives who were concerned about the disaster aid that was added to this. because it was a political vote, a posturing vote, it goes to the senate where it s clearly not going to pass. but republicans can say, no, we you know, we went with the president, we voted this way, and now it s just sort of a standoff between the two chambers. i should note, though, just to be clear, the $5 million is american money, in the from the mexican government. not pesos, no, correct. i want to be clear. $5 billion of american public funds, not mexican funds.
week, and nancy pelosi was saying you re not going to be able to pass a $5 billion wall cr, basically the idea was they needed money for they needed votes from democrats to pass the cr. and part of that was the conservatives had all these ideas about asylum policy riders. there was a lot of conservatives who were concerned about the disaster aid that was added to this. because it was a political vote, a posturing vote, it goes to the senate where it s clearly not going to pass. but republicans can say, no, we you know, we went with the president, we voted this way, and now it s just sort of a standoff between the two chambers. i should note, though, just to be clear, the $5 million is american money, in the from the mexican government. not pesos, no, correct. i want to be clear. $5 million of american public funds, not mexican funds. i want to bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt who s been covering this all day. i saw you at the press conference with chuck
symbolic. this is not purely symbolic. we could be heading for a train wreck. the former senate majority leader is a disaster. we can t go down this road. bob, let me ask my posturing vote, yes. let me ask michael this question because i m trying to get to you deal with the issue you don t want to deal with. what do you want to deal with, al. you talked about every poll that the republicans are doing but you won t deal with this vote this week. is it because, maybe, just maybe, the republicans have overplayed their hands. i m reading the case that was written this morning in the new york times. they said, y all were winning. you had no end game. you came in, you had a great first three rounds strategy but you didn t know what to do.
doing. president obama voted against raising the debt. and he shouldn t have. he cast the vote. it is easy to reconcile. he cast the vote when it was symbolic. this is not purely symbolic. we could be heading for a train wreck. the former senate majority leader is a disaster. we can t go down this road. bob, let me ask my posturing vote, yes. let me ask michael this question because i m trying to get to you deal with the issue you don t want to deal with. what do you want to deal with, al. you talked about every poll that the republicans are doing but you won t deal with this vote this week. is it because, maybe, just maybe, the republicans have overplayed their hands. i m reading the case that was