2016. now, we knew from earlier this month that trump planned on diverting money from the pentagon to pay for huz is belo wall on the southern border. we now know his plan was to pay for the precious wall, by, quote, taking funds from more than four dozen air force military construction projects posing various national security risks for the u.s. armed forces, according to a report by the air force. one of those cut backs includes security improvements to a base in tushlgy that houses thousands of american airmen. here s how the report characterized that cut. quote, if not funded the main gate remains vulnerable to hostile penetration and an increased terror threat. joining me now is the reporter who broke this story. courtney, thank you for being here. thanks for having me. explain what was on the list of being cut and what were the national security risks that
blocking common sense measures. they re a matter of simple morality and patriotism. common sense is a term overused in this city that displays common senseless often than it should. but these matters ought to be bipartisan and they would be bipartisan but for the republican leadership. let me press you. part of what we re discussing here is the nature of the attacks on mitch mcconnell which as reported got his attention but which are impugning him. it was liberals who efforts to tie them to the red scare, to tar them and all these type of things. you re talking about why he opposes it. i want to give senator mcconnell s view some air time. he cites several reasons and this is from reporting a long-standing resistance to federal control over state elections, right? which is something many republicans talked about pretrump, newly enacted security improvements shown to have worked in 2018.
insists on having a border wall, ending chain migration and visa lottery. there are 1.8 million dreamers in the united states, donald trump says he wants to help them but only if democrats agreed to making borders for security improvements. jillian: felt like we had this conversation before. rob: donald trump s administration working to make america safe from outside threats. i call it extreme vetting. our country has enough problems. we don t need more. rob: signing in order to establish the national vetting center as a 1-stop shop for screening new immigrants coming into the us to help agents identify potential terror threats, the department of homeland security has 6 months to submit a final plan afforded by the president s approval. the death of a border patrol
correspondent for reuters. thanks for sticking around. my pleasure, sir. rick: the president criticized president obama for failing to use leverage. this appears on the surface to be a brilliant approach to allow both sides to get what they want. approve $25 billion for the wall and other security improvements and two million immigrants get legal status instead of a boot out of the u.s.? brilliant is your word. some people would agree with that, some would not. certainly the democrats have something they want. they want very much for the dreamers to get legal citizenship to have a pathway to citizenship which the president is offering in that. but don t want to spend that much money on a wall. and the democrats argued this is an issue, the dreamer issue that has bipartisan support already. they don t want to give up bargainingship by agreeing to this when they feel they should get to through already.
back jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. thanks for sticking around. my pleasure, sir. rick: the president criticized president obama for failing to use leverage. this appears on the surface to be a brilliant approach to allow both sides to get what they want. approve $25 billion for the wall and other security improvements and two million immigrants get legal status instead of a boot out of the u.s.? brilliant is your word. some people would agree with that, some would not. certainly the democrats have something they want. they want very much for the dreamers to get legal citizenship to have a pathway to citizenship which the president is offering in that. but don t want to spend that much money on a wall. and the democrats argued this is an issue, the dreamer issue that has bipartisan support already. they don t want to give up bargainingship by agreeing to this when they feel they should