disincentivized to budge because they are not going to fund a wall. nancy pelosi was very clear on this. i think we are farther away than we have been up and to this point, and you know, we can have working groups and stuff. it s up to donald trump. if donald trump does not commit to a deal, it s not going to happen. you can have as many meetings as you want. michael, donald trump always wants his cake and eat it too, can he le open the government and keep his wall fight going? i don t know. he is pursuing a base strategy in all this, but his own party has some divisions. i think democrats are united on this issue. trump unites them. exactly. we re not even talking about nancy pelosi and all that trouble she was going to have getting elected speaker thanks to donald trump. you have republican senators who realize they don t want republican governance to look like it doesn t work, which is what s happening in this circumstance, so there are divisions on his side. i just am n
investigation reveals more information that requires that people take action. is there any part of you that says, look, at some point we have to reopen the government no matter what we have to do here, that you have to give him something? at what point do you feel as if is there ever a pressure point in your mind that you re like let s give him something to get out of this, we ve got to reopen the government? it all depends on what you mean by something. no one s going to give him $5 billion for an unnecessary and ineffective wall because in addition to the 5 billion this year, the same thing will happen next year. this wall doesn t cost $5 billion. this is something like 28 to $30 billion, and so what you re going to be doing is saying, okay, trump, every year you can once again threaten to shut down the government to get the wall that mexico was supposed to pay for. so the as senator langford pointed out, this administration in their own budget this year only asked for 1.6 bi
on the one hand there was trump digging in moments after democratic leaders spoke. so we told the president we needed the government open. he resisted. in fact, he said he d keep the government closed for a very long period of time, months or even years. i did say that, absolutely i said that. i don t think it will, but i am prepared and i think i can speak for republicans in the house and republicans in the senate, they feel very strongly about having a safe country, having a border that makes sense. without borders i ve said it many times, we don t have a country. so there was that, and there was also this. you don t need congressional approval to build the wall? no, absolutely. we can call a national emergency because of the security of our country, absolutely. no, we can do it. i haven t done it. i may do it. i may do it, but we could call a national emergency and build it very quickly and it s another way of doing it. but if we can do it through a
negotiated process, we re giving that a shot. so is that a threat hanging over the democrats? i never threaten anybody. but i am allowed to do that. to be clear, the president says he s willing to keep the government partially shut down for years if congress doesn t fund his wall. at at the same time, he claims he doesn t need the funds, and he doesn t need congress. we re going to try to solve that riddle in a few minutes, which brings us to the version of president trump we also saw today, who seemed as if he was looking for an off ramp or at least a cease fire. he also said he s convening a working group to try to figure out a way for both sides to get on the same page, in washington speak have a commission. and he also seemed to be laying the groundwork for a potential detaunt as congress awaits the supreme court s decision on daca. he sounded awfully confident that the shutdown would be over in a matter of days, perhaps that january 11th payday is lingering in his head. it g
of 1.3 billion that was provided last year. if he said i ll take the 1.6, would that be and i know that you guys have taken that off the table, at that point, though, would you be like, fine, let s get out of this thing? look, we were very clear, the 1.6 the way it was written also had language saying it s not for a wall. if the president s talking about border security money, we ve already provided it. we re happy to have a conversation about border security. he just needs to stop deluding his followers and the country about this idea of a 2,000 mile wall. senator chris van hol llen i going to leave it there. up next, a colorful call for impeachment by freshman congresswoman ra scongress ra she data leeb. congress ra she data leeb because when you re ready for what comes next,