security. he s ready. they need to come to the table. this is not a negotiation. we look forward to seeing that negotiation when congress comes back. when speaker pelosi comes in, she has a weakened hand. how does he have a weakened hand? she has control of the house. right. but she has a smaller margin than the republicans had when they were there. and they had two years and difficulty with completely control of congress. by the way, i to get the president s border wall. i totally agree with you, the courts and congress have totally failed to do their jobs, democrats and republicans have promised border security, voted for it in the past. chuck schumer circa 2009 talking about how border security has helped stem immigration to chuck schumer ten years later that will not even talk to us. cbp tells me that thousands were arrested. we need these stories as well,
funding, money for the wall for lack of a better way of saying it. democrats have a chance here to work with me and others, including the president, to bring legal status to people who have very uncertain lives. i m not asking anybody to do something new. i m asking people to sit down and rearrange the deal that was offered before. you probably hear this from democrats and republicans. if i m hearing it, you re hearing it. they don t trust they don t want to go into a potential deal like you just described because they re not convinced that the president will pull the rug out from under them just like he did on december 19th when you and your fellow democrats and republicans approved a funding bill that he later said he would veto. even though he didn t say that at the time. we need to start talking again. let s talk about pulling the rug out from inform each other. i ve been working on this ten years.
married up with the bridge act, which senator durbin and i wrote, three-year one-time renewable work permit, daca pop lace population, 700,000 people population and 400,000 tps people came here from natural disasters and war-torn countries decades ago. their visas are running out. so basically $5 billion for the wall plus the bridge act, tps and some legal changes to do away with some of these magnets to illegal immigration might save the day in the senate. senator, this is the gist of this, which is money he for the border wall in exchange for legal status, at least, for the so-called dreamers. right, right. it s been out there before. democrats have rejected it. and tps reform. democrats have rejected it. the white house rejected it. what makes you think it s going to fly now? the bottom line is everything i just outlined has been offered by each party before. you know, president trump is not going to walk away from this fight without border security
has caused so many problems for so many people in this country. he is an angry, emotional, unstable man sitting in the white house. is that your campaign speech for 2020? is that what we re hearing? i think what americans want is they re tired of this angry man, emotional man in the white house who is a constant liar. look at this week. he went over to iraq and told the military, oh, they wanted 2%, 3% no, i got you 10%. he didn t. it was 2.6%. he said you haven t had a pay raise in ten years. they had a pay raise every year. under president obama for several years they had a bigger pay raise. then he has the audacity to come out and blame democrats for the death of these two children. that is the lowest act i ve ever seen any president in the history of our country. you sound like a man running for president. are you going to announce right now? i m not going to announce right now. i m obviously looking at it.
democrats have voted for 700 miles of fencing in 2006, 25 billion for the wall in february, in 2013 we voted for $42 billion for border security, including $9 billion for a wall/fence. the bottom line is, they want trump to lose more than they want the country to win, i fear. at the end of the day there s a deal to be had. everybody is changing their position here and most americans are pretty tired of it. to my democratic friends, there will never be a deal without wall funding and many republicans are going to offer something as an incentive to vote for wall funding that you have supported in the past. you talk about everybody changing their position. i have to ask you about something that seems to be getting lost in this conversation, which is that when you were running against the president in the republican primaries and all through the general election, he did say that this was a campaign promise to build a wall. right. but he also said mexico would pay for it, not the amer