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are the progressals that i rely on. they ve showed me and told me what needs to be done. we already have 600-plus miles john: so why is that lost on all of your colleagues? because now it seems like the border s going to protect us with 700 miles of wall or fencing, whatever, i ll call it a secured structure the, is downing to be the catch-all. that s not the case. we can stop most of our ports of entry is where our drugs are coming through. can t we have screaming, sensors, things of that sort? john: isn t that what he s proposing? senator manchin, we are good friends, he s been consistent on this. i frankly think, and his position has been consistent, many of the democrats in the last few months have looked at the president making this a big issue in his campaign, and they ve decided, well, we can t be for that anymore. 2013 virtually every democrat who s still in the senate voted
for 70 miles of barriers and a whole lot more money than anybody s talking about right now. speaker pelosi has been for barriers in the past. you know, the whole idea that somehow 650 or 700 miles of barriers are appropriate but 702 miles are immoral, that is a incredibly interesting place to draw your line about what s moral and what s not moral. i think this debate got with way too political. i do think, let me say again, i think the president has shown more willingness to move so far than others have. but we need to solve this. we need to solve it in three months. it may look like right now that speaker pelosi got what she wanted, open the government again and we ll talk. the we ll talk part of that now is where we really are going to see the speaker either step up and talk along with senator schumer or find out that we ll talk really didn t mean anything. it just meant give us what we want, and you not going to get
this point. trump politically is in a situation where he has had for the last two years a solid base that has been behind him no matter what happens. but, john, you were at these rallies in 2016 as i was, and i was constantly struck by the fact that a lot of trump supporters when he had the chants about build the wall, who will pay for it, that wasn t just a political talking point for a lot of people. they actually wanted the policy to be implemented. john: exactly. this was not just rhetoric. is so i think he knows that base that has been so loyal, this is one issue where they could crumble. john: gillian, does this loss have coat tails with negotiates with xi. and with kim and his approach to putin, are they going to say, wow, we ve just got to wait him out? i think that is a calculation foreign leaders from across the globe are making this week. they re looking at this and they re saying, you know what? turns out that the democrats winning the house in the midterms actually did
but i think there ought to be a pathway for some. that would change the whole complexion of this, the whole dialogue would change if that could be done. as far as the 5.7 billion if that s the number, we re figuring how to you split that up. and let the professionals we ve proven it s hard for us because with the president and white house and the legislature, we ve locked horns on this thing. no wall, all wall, halfway in between. let the professionals tell us what it takes to keep us safe. drugs is a big problem in my state. john: absolutely. how do we stop the drugs. people that, basically, the terrorists, everything that s been reported. i don t know, i would talk to will hurd and ask will, are you having that problem in texas. we need to talk to the professionals that can be a dealmaker, if you will. john: senator blunt, you re going to be in on these negotiations. do you think that compromise is possible here knowing that nancy pelosi has said time and time again no money for