of what we can do for this country if we come together and work together over the next two years. one of the first opportunities that members will have, republicans and democrats to come together would be to vote on and support the usmca deal. one of the biggest trade deals in the history of our country. something that fights for the american worker. this is something that both republicans and democrats talk about regularly, say they support, helping the american worker, helping our farmers, our ranchers and the forgotten men and women of this country. this deal does exactly that and we ll see if the members can come together and support this trade deal and make history by coming together and getting that done. bill: we want to lay the table. a chance for you on that. i want to take you back to sunday during the interview on cbs, a key line in the answer caught my ear when the president said this. president trump: i don t take anything off the table. i don t like to take things off
the president is demanding that you, the taxpayer, you pay for it instead, while simultaneously claiming this. they are paying for it with the incredible deal we made called the united states mexico and canada, usmca deal. the usmca deal, that s the trade agreement the president hopes will replace nafta. he and justin trudeau signed this deal in november. i said hopes because that s not law. congress hasn t ratified that. with democrats running the show in the house, there s no guarantee it will. any direct benefits of the deal will be reaped by individuals, not the u.s. government, and the white house argues that yes, more money for american companies means more tax revenue, sure. you but it would be merely impossible to track which dollars are a direct result of
they could stop this problem in 15 minutes if they wanted to. i really believe now that they don t want to. i really believe that. i really believe that they don t care about crime. the president s afternoon trip to the border today another publicity gambit hoping he can change minds about the bordered wa border wall. his chat with reporters reinstated it. nancy pelosi won t give in, the president won t abandon it. a national emergency seems to be the only way out to the end of a government shutdown. i have the possibility of a national emergency. the lawyers have so advised me. i m not prepared to do that yet, but i will. there s no doubt about it, i will. if we re unable to make a deal, i want to say it 100%.
work, but i m not going to get into that right now. mexico is not paying for the wall. if it goes through, taxpayers will pay for the wall either through the pentagon budget or they categorize and make a deal. the president brought that up. why is he so sensitive about the who is going to pay part? he made a campaign promise and he s clear that it is broken. he s sort of hopefully discussing he sounds like someone who is guilty of messing up something and saying, well, that s not what i meant to say. even though i covered the campaign, i never heard him say, we ll have a wall that will be paid for through congress. what people heard was we will build the wall, mexico will pay for it in some direct way, and you can tell he s nervous about it. that was the whole point about, look, i m going to be really tough on border security and this is my way of communicating that. but you see what s under his skin by when he comes out and what he brings up in his sessions with reporters. it s
the president pulled the rug out from under them. so anything mike pence is doing right now up there comes with a credibility factor of just about zero. if you think about that, the president s point man on capitol hill, nobody trusts. now, it s not mike pence s fault. no, it s not. so, then, we re at this for a while. we re at this for a while. the lindsey graham group, and i don t question their intentions, but they re talking about help for daca recipients, changes to hgb visas, help in the temporary immigration status program. essentially, here s something the democrats want, give the president his wall. they could have gotten democratic votes when the republicans were still in the house. that could have gotten them to the finish line. but the republicans don t rule the house any more. he s not going to get a better deal now. a, would democrats support it, and b, is there any indication that the president,