perhaps he can avoid it this time. just to be clear here, manu raju, no details on what s in that deal, that s more than a little important here. any sense of whether this has any level of presidential sign-off? it s really unclear at this point. the president tries to move and act administratively. declare a national emergency to try to get funding for his border wall, do that way. he certainly won t get the $5.7 billion he has demanded for the wal wall. some kind of border deal. joining me now, cnn political
pressure on to keep i.c.e. in check. the president set to speak in el paso in moments. below that, the counter rally, beto o rourke, marching with demonstrators against the president investment quickly, has the president weighed in? do we know what he would sign at this point? we don t. that is so important. the potential, we are told, on anything that does not give enough beds for ice. whether it be new, we don t know whether he will accept that. dana bash, thank you so much for being with us.
points, including detaining people at the border. sticking point over the weekend was to limit the number of people detained on u.s. soil, undocumented immigrants. what s unclear is how that was resolved. me and other reporters tried to ask what was exactly agreed to. they are not saying at this point. they re saying though they have reached this agreement, they believe they ll have the support within their respective teams. president trump signed this into law. we ll have to see when it comes but lots of optimism. big shift from just yesterday. a sign that they could avert another government shutdown after the longest one in history of 35 days of these very issues.
real embarrassment and terrible decision not to make it. we ought to thank them for doing that, appreciate that and say mr. president, his next move is up to you. if he did not go after the democrats and take the low road. terrific point, david gergen. this agreement comes 20 minutes before the president is scheduled to take the stage for what will be a political rally and as political rallies are full often of divisive rhetoric, that s texas senator ted cruz right there, the president s old foe, now friend who does support the president s moves on the border wall. are kierstin powers, to you, what do you think democrats will need out of this proposed deal from the 17 appropriators? obviously there s been a hang 00-up in the number of funding for i.c.e. detention beds. the question for me, is this a hill they re going to die on or
more fencing was completed in 2009 and a lot of crime went up right around there, 17%, and has bounced around at a fairly low level ever since. the numbers are consistent with other big cities over that period, violent crime going down dramatically in many instances and any president can get those numbers by picking up a phone acres local call. any president at any time of day or night has access to more facts about more things than any of us could possibly imagine. unless, that is, he prefers imagining his own, then doubling down and actually going to the place he lied about to prove a point that s not true. you know, because it s monday. in a moment, you ll hear from the mayor of el paso, republican, by the way. first live coverage of the event, starting with the protest march and jeff zeleny, who joins us live. give us a sense of what s going on where you are. reporter: there s a sense that the residents of el paso,