weeks of what they ve asked for so far would be. whether or not democrats would support that is still an open question. you heard the president pointing several times there to that meeting between senator chuck schumer and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. they ve been meeting. they just broke up and ended that meeting. we re going to talk to them after that. when he was asked by a reporter in the room would he assign whatever kind of agreement that mcconnell and schumer came to, he said yes if it was a reasonable agreement. now, wolf, what the president thinks is a reasonable agreement sometimes has been very different than whatnot only democrats but also republicans up on capitol hill have agreed to. that raises questions there, what exactly it is that they re looking for. this is new, that the white house is offering a down payment on the wall in exchange to open the government for three weeks. wolf, that raises the question of what happens when those three weeks are up? if de
you re working your sources over there. we ll get back to you. phil mattingly is up on capitol hill. you heard the president say if mulch mcconnell and chuck schumer could come up with a reasonable agreement, he would support t definition of a reasonable agreement, though, remains outstanding. doing a lot of work there. one of the key issue bes we ve seen the last four or five weeks is that both parties, regardless, democrat or republican, having a difficult time trying to pin down exactly what the president is for or whether or not the president is willing to move off his $5.7 billion top line funding for the wall. over the course of those comments i was texting back and forth with democratic sources in the house and the senate, about a pro-rated wall down payment over the course of the three-week cr, continued resolution and unanimously democrats are expouresponding t no. democrats both in the house and
are going to see that. that s not like hiding drugs in the engine or hub caps and incredible, ingenious ideas. it s so genius, if they were ever legit, they would become very rich people. but what they do, they go through the ports of entry with small stuff. but the big stuff comes through areas where you have nobody watching. you have hundreds of miles of open space. you go out there and they load it up with drugs or have women in the backseat of the cars with duct tape all over the place. it s a disgrace. you don t catch them. you don t even know the difference between mexico and the united states. they make a left turn after they go out 20 miles, 40 miles, five miles in some cases and less. they milwaukee a leake a left t they re in the united states. we need the wall. we can all play games and talk about technology. i know more about technology than anybody. you don t have a wall, the
we want to go through the system. we have to have a wall in this country. we have criminals pouring into our country. and i m not talking about the southern border. they don t stay there. they permeate all throughout the country, including places like wisconsin. a lot of different places. and that s the problem. i say that we would cut our traffic you know, we re doing very well compared to past years and past administrations. i think our crime rate would go way down and our drug rates what s happening, the drugs are pouring in. yes, they come through the ports of entry, but the big trucks come through areas where you don t have a wall and you have wide open spaces. we have to have the wall. you would stop drugs. you could stop human trafficking. i mean, human trafficking where they tie up women and put duct tape on their mouths and put them in the backseat of a car or in a van, they don t come through a port of entry, because the people at the port of entry
let s discuss all of this with democratic congressman ted liu, judicial committee. thanks for joining us. both government funding bills up for consideration in the senate failed this afternoon. now the president says he would support a temporary reopening of the federal government if there was a pro-rated down payment for a wall. what s your reaction? thank you for your question, wolf. first of all i m pleased that the democratic proposal with no strings attached got more votes than donald trump s own proposal. very pleased that six republican senators broke ranks with the president, including mitt romney. i m glad he s showing he s not a flake and that mitt romney is putting country above party. i m hopeful this will lead to talks to reopen government. democratic position has always been consistent and reasonable. reopen government, mr. president. negotiate a deal. would you, as a member of the