nation as its commander-in-chief and president. the leader of the nation. not only the political party. and he is really using very specific examples of how congress and he have done this already. and how he would like to do in the near future. harris: real quickly, because there s been all this discussion about the semantics is it a border barrier customer could president has gone back and forth. maybe i won t call it a ball. is he going to call it a wall in the city been an address tomorrow i believe that to. i will speak specifically about the dress, which i ve seen my thick it s fantastic. harris: do think you should call it a law customer i think it doesn t matter, and here s why. including your own network, it s a silly semitic surrogate. not a lot of people are saying that. meaning, we need a physical barrier. he has told s leadership in the democratic party, here in the white house, and the situation room, call it whatever you want. call it steel slats, coda barrier. c
tuesday s state of the union address. joining me is one of the lawmakers trying to cut a deal. senate appropriations committee chairman richard shelby, republican from alabama. senator, good to see you. always good to have you on. your committee has just 12 days left to strike a deal to avoid another government shutdown. president trump said this week those negotiations you are helping to lead are, quote, a waste of time. the comments like that, do they hurt your efforts to find a compromise? well, it could hurt but also could help because a lot of us are going to do everything we can to try to make this work. to get to yes. to avoid another shutdown. to show that we can do the job like we did three-fourths of the funding already. there seem to be an obvious area of compromise here on fencing. speaker pelosi indicated on thursday she won t pay for a wall but is open to enhanced fencing or normandy fencing in some areas. president trump said he was open to fencing, barriers, steel
to fencing, barriers, steel slats, but then this week he kind of did a turn around and tweeted, quote, let s just call them walls from now on and stop playing political games. it seems as though the president has just kind of put up a wall in the way of finding common ground here. am i wrong? i think that the president is dead set on keeping his campaign promise. i support border security, a wall, a fence, a barrier, whatever it takes. also support enhanced procedures, technology and more manpower. we ve got to have a comprehensive approach to this. i believe that we ve got a chance this week to move things. will we? we don t know. the president could be right. we could be wasting our time. on the other hand, we could come up to a solution. but as long as the speaker and
republican of tflorida. he is saying he should change the chant from build the wall to finish wall. how can you finish wall that hasn t been started yet? at the same time he s also said a lot, including a speech from the white house last week about wall barriers, steel slats, fence, call it what you want it but we need to secure the border and a physical barrier is part of that. that has been started. members on both sides of the aisle have voted for barrier as part of overall border security for years. finish it, complete it. my position is let s let the current committee that is negotiating that finish its work, come to a compromise, keep the government open and let s move onto a lot of other business that the country needs. the president portraying it
wanted all along. which is fine if you say you wanted a pony for christmas but you got a hobby horse instead. make believe is fine in you re a kid or a real estate developer in new york. it s different when you re a president and when you re twisting the facts to make that case. the whole range of issues surrounding the border and the showdown over it. i spoke earlier with a republican of florida. he is saying he should change the chant from build the wall to finish wall. how can you finish wall that hasn t been started yet? at the same time he s also said a lot, including a speech from the white house last week about wall barriers, steel slats, fence, call it what you want it but we need to secure the border and a physical barrier is part of that. that has been started. members on both sides of the aisle have voted for barrier as part of overall border security for years. finish it, complete it. my position is let s let the current committee that is