have not heard from him before, they also want border security. a huge concession for trump to make. for him to admit he spent all of 2018 cycle saying democrats want open borders, they want drugs, crime we re going back to the president now at the rose garden. he s taking questions. senator schumer came out and said that the meeting from his point of view and speaker pelosi s was contentious. he said that you said in the meeting, this is him quoting you that the shut down could go on for months or even a year or longer. did you say that? i did. i did say that. absolutely i said that. i don t think it will. i am prepared and i think i can speak for republicans in the house and republicans in the senate. they feel very strongly about having a safe country, having a border that makes sense. without borders, we don t have a country. i hope it doesn t go on even
hard over the weekend and we ll see if we can do something. so you can call it whatever you want. you can call it the schumer or the pelosi or the trump shut down. doesn t make any difference to me. just words. mr. president, my second question sir on federal workers. go ahead. just one second. please. may be the same question. thank you, mr. president. two questions. just to follow up on daca. are you open to a path to citizenship in theory nor daca recipients and can you explain to federal employees of the agencies closed that are not homeland security why they should stay closed? homeland security is significant in itself if it stays closed. because we want do do what is right and we want to do it at one time. we don t want it in pieces. we don t want to do that. daca will be a great subject. we ll discuss it at another time. a lot of great things that can happen with daca if the
as i m concerned. the white house is falling in line, or people that work in the administration are falling in line and trying to justify the numbers. the terrorism thing, you brought it up. it is ludicrous. the idea there are 4,000 terrorists stopped a day. at the southern border is what sarah huckabee sanders said. what she s referring to is ten known or sorry to interrupt. the president is taking questions. from his point of view, and speaker pelosi s was contenti s contentious. he also said you said in the meeting, him quoting you, i want to check, that the shutdown could go on for months or even a year or longer. did you say that? i did. is that your i did say that, absolutely. absolutely, i said that. i don t think it will, but i am prepared. i think i can speak for republicans in the house and republicans in the senate. they feel very strongly about having a safe country, having a border that makes sense. without borders, i ve said it many times, we don
you have to say in her defense that we had this great recession over the past couple of years and that clearlyhe decifit, but you must also say, bill, that spending in america begins with the house of representatives, and that massive stimulus and the huge budget spending, that clearly added to the decifit and to this $5 trillion extra debt that we ve acquired during speaker pelosi s watch. there s an element of sadness here, bill, because if you go back to january of 2007, when speaker pelosi first wield dollars the gavel, her opening speech said the future generations would not be weighed down with a mountain of debt. fast forward to now, $5 trillion worth of extra debt on the books, and her latest statement said that food stamps and unemployment benefits got the best bang for the buck in an ailing economy. i think that s probably why, along with that $5 trillion extra debt, i think ms. pelosi has become something of an issue in some of the races to be decided next week. bill: you wo
jon: a big battle brewing on capitol hill on how to pay for the two wars. congress having a hard time passing supplemental spending bills as republicans threaten to blocking the measure claiming it s full of pork barrel spend. successfully implementing the president s policy will require our forces and our work in afghanistan is fully resourced. it is essential for the conduct of this mission that the supplemental funding measure now before congress be passed. this committee and the senate have passed it and it was heartening to hear speaker pelosi s call last week for the house to do the same expeditiously. jon: mike emanuel is live at the pentagon. what s going on with the war funding bill and what are the politics about it. reporter: the pentagon