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measures to give wiggle room. the fact that the president is once again renewing the fight over the wall when he got nothing out of a 35-day shutdown and nothing out of a deal passed by congress and instead resorted to a national emergency, i think it is more of a statement of the white house s priorities and the sense that they will be willing to take on this fight one more time perhaps because the 2020 election is looming, but ultimately because congress passes appropriations bills the question is if there is a bill between republicans in the senate and democrats in the house, what will that legislation be? the president is clearly calculating here that this fight works for him with his base whether it s the wawall, fighti for the funding or the national emergency declaration. the wall was the single it is not something he was able to
tool to keep that, his coalition together. you talk about immigration and the wall and impeachment. he talks about impeachment more than democrats talk about impeachment. by tenfold. right. and i think he uses it to light a fire under the base, bring everyone back in the fold, and because i think those are the two things that animate his supporters. defending him and then also the wa wall, and he s obviously failed getting funding on the wall. who s in charge of getting his base, the base or him? lamar alexander has this dream that he s going to be nixon to china, and he s going to create the great comprehensive immigration bill that barack obama and john mccain couldn t figure out. who s in charge of the base, the base or the president? i think we could see that in the lead up to this, when we were leading up to this and there was a deal on the table and mitch mcconnell got snookerred once donald trump started listening to other people who said they were speaking on behalf of
time. the white house has backed off of doing a concrete solid wall, which i don t think it would be useful and the border patrol folks said is the wrong way to do the design. there is a difference. in san diego where they changed the fencing from the old style to the new style, when we visited the border patrol folks the old style fencing they had ten penetrations a day. the new style, they re having one a month. there is a dramatic difference if you change the style of fencing. it should be fencing, not a solid wall. all right, senator langford i m going to leave it there. republican from oklahoma, thanks very much. appreciate you coming on. let me turn to a senator from the other side of the aisle, who was listening in on this interview. joining me is maryland senator chris van hollen. happy new year to you. was i incorrect in how i described, if you could support what senator langford described. there s bipartisan support for what he described on the border versus what presiden
for the non-taxpayer paid for wall. none of this will be good, and somebody will have to pay a price for this, and as of right now it seems that it will be the president. the question is will he care? will those things move him. i hope nancy pelosi has enough leeway from her own left to get a good deal. she could actually get real progress i think on daca or other issues. i assume she s got more leeway on this issue than others, right? look, i think that the party is totally united behind her in this position right now. i think that she, you know, the fact that she was able to bring up a republican bill and pass it overwhelmingly, send it back to mitch mcconnell who probably needs to come out from the bushes to bring it up for a vote, that speaks to her strength. is there a pressure point for mcconnell at some point where you feel like he has to lead? he leads when he thinks that his people are in trouble, and that i think is, you know, the question. these elections are pre