fence. okay? thank you. good question. it s a good question. please, go ahead. reporter: two questions. first, mr. president, have you considered using emergency powers should we keep this going or not, folks? i just don t want them to say, oh, he stood out there. you have so many questions. i m looking at mike and steve and more important, madam secretary. none of us brought coats. are you cold? get out of here. take mine. do you want mine? should we keep this going? first let me know when you get tired. reporter: have you considered using emergency powers to build this wall without congressional approval? yes, i have. and i can do it if i want. reporter: so you don t need congressional approval to build
money, ne wothey would with peo. reporter: so you would encourage landlords i would encourage them to be nice and easy. we have a bigger subject to deal with, the security of our country, including terrorism. reporter: one more. thank you, sir. go ahead. come on. reporter: thank you, mr. president. i had a question about the terrorism. i wanted to ask who are these individuals who are being captured terrorists? are they people on the watch list? are they from travel ban countries? a second question i wanted to ask, why is senator mitch mcconnell not here? why was he not invited? he s been great. first of all, he was here. he was with us for hours at the meeting. reporter: why is he not here right now? he s running the senate. mitch mcconnell has been fantastic. he has been really great. he s right at the top of everything that we re doing and he s really been fantastic. do you want to answer that
that, at least during the shutdown? well, i might consider that. you know, that s something i may consider. that s a very good question. who else is out there, mike? who do you see out there that s always been very fair to us? reporter: are you committing to that, mr. president? are you committing to that? go ahead. good. go ahead. no? that s all right. mike likes you. mike highly recommended you. this will be the killer of all. reporter: you were a landlord. for people that are worried about paying their rent checks, government employees, and people worried about bill collectors, would you ask those companies, the landlords to go easy i think they will. i think that happens. i ve been a landlord for a long time, in the real estate business for a long time, when you see there are problems and difficulties out there, the people are all good for the
question about the terrorists? sure. obviously i can t get into classified information but what we do know is cdp has stopped over 3,000 what we call special interest aliens trying to come into the country on the southern border. those are aliens who the intel community has identified are of concern. they either have travel patterns that are identified as terrorist travel patterns or they have known or suspected ties to terrorism. so we have 3,000 that we know about. i think what the president continues to make clear is it s our sovereign duty to know who comes into our country without any kind of a structure and without changing the laws, we have no way to know the identity of every person that walks across the secured border. the ones we know about i can give you 3,000. we ll look to what else we can give you, there s obviously investigations ongoing i can t get into. so i think that we can say with surety i think it was a
have heard the last of michael cohen. he was on state of union suggesting that he may ask cohen to yet again testify before congress. listen now to the incoming chairman of the oversight committee. i am hoping that mr. cohen will come before the congress where he can tell the american public exactly what he has been saying to mueller and others without interfering with the mueller investigation. i think the american people just voted for transparency and integrity in our hearing. they want to hear from him. i certainly would like to see him come in the month of january before congress so representatives will have an opportunity to ask him questions. whether cohen testifies is still an up question. the other big open question which cnn reported last week that mueller was still