session for the president who said he signed this bill. we know that this morning he was watching the news coverage of this bill. lot of negative coverage about how this bill did not fund his immigration priorities. he sat there, complaining about it in the diplomatic room. as manu said, this has been in the works for several weeks now, especially in the last few days, and a process that the president has not been engaged on. his complaints there, they could have aired those before they voted on it and pass this had spending bill. he signed this bill and, wolf, it capped off a frenzied morning this morning on the white house and capitol hill with the president starting threatening to veto this bill. in the end, he is signing it. and as we pointed out, kaitlan, and you re right there at the white house, his budget director, director of legislative affairs at the white who us and other senior officials were working closely with top republican and
wall, very small percentage of what the white house actually asked for to build that wall, the wall that, as you remember, during the campaign the president said time and time again that mexico was going to pay for. he was very critical of that, critical of democrats, saying they opposed funding the military and also being critical of the fact that there was no legislation in here to fix, to help those dreamers who have benefited from the daca program, the program that the president ended last fall and that he has also failed to reach a deal with on democrats in order to give them legislation to protect their status while they are here. it was really just a venting session for the president where he lamented this bill, went over it. that comes four hours after the president said he was considering vetoing the bill, which was 24 hours after his own white house official, including his budget director, mick mulv a. ney, were on camera in the briefing room with reporters saying yes, he was
collins at the white house. give us your perspective t sounded like the president was venting. reporter: that s exactly what it was. he threatened to veto this bill, a threat that not even his own advisers took seriously but sent a scramble over at capitol hill after reporters and lawmakers were assured that the president was backing this bill. you saw the president say yes i m going to sign this bill, begrudgingly. here is what i don t like about it, main ly the lack of funding for his border war, when back in the campaign he said mexico would pay for it. and nothing on daca, something that the president failed to reach a deal with in the first place. a venting session in the diplomatic room. he said it would be a news conference. he spoke for 30 minutes criticizing this bill, saying he will never sign a bill like this again. to be clear, that was a venting
there s a whole a lot of russia to ask about and roy moore you could ask about and sexual harassment stuff to ask about here. i m curious to see how he handles that. i think he will probably, if he does do it, he will handle it the way he handled lengthy news conferences. there was one he did early on where he took questions for almost an hour. he loved it. it felt to him like a venting session. it will depend on how much he s buying into the strategy his legal advisers gave him. we re taking a break. up next, new details in the derailment in washington state. today we now know how much the train was speeding when it hit that curve, but there s many safety questions that don t have answers. that s the latest, next.
it s possible he will answer questions in a public way. this could be interesting. there is a whole lot of russia to ask about. right. a whole lot of roy moore, sexual harassment stuff to ask about. sure. i m curious to see how he handles it. if he does did it he will handle it the way we have seen him handle similar lengthy news conferences. remember the one he did early on against his aides advice. right. he took questions almost an hour. he loved it. it felt like a venting session to him. what he does here depends on where things are with the investigation and how much he is buying into the strategy that his legal advisers have prescribed at this point. maggie, great to see you. you said a date. february. and not a moment before then that s when we ll do it. we ll take a break, maggie thanks for being us. new details on the deadly train derailment. we know how much the train was speeding when it hit the curve. but there are many safety kwis without answers. that