wall. and unless there s an end-around, straightaway to remove this from the legislate impressive says or a way for the president to think about he can move forward with this debt ceiling vote if the wall is not there, i don t see how it works. he s committed to that wall and people in his base believe the s the signature piece of what trump is, building the wall. whether or not mexico pays for it, people don t care too much about that. his base was only a portion of the americans that got him elected. there are a lot of people who voted for him, the wall didn t mean anything to him. elana, the president waging these public fights with gop leaders who recollect does it serve? well, clearly it serves the president. how does it serve the president? i think the president and perhaps rightly believes that republicans may fear him more than they let on. keep in mind a lot of these gop aides talking to news outlets like my own aren t attaching their name to it. clearly there is a con
handful of people like jeff flake. right. and say this wall is a really stupid idea on many many levels it s like the american president, the crime bill. right, and it s a border wall that has no chance of ending illegal immigration. i m going to make a prediction now. it just occurred to me this may be his repeal and replace. he s fine with not having passed so that he can hammer everyone on it over the next four years about how the wall didn t get built. we re going to sneak in one more break. we ll be right back. muscles, a. highly digestible, and a taste he loves, all in one. purina one smartblend is expertly blended. with 100% nutrition, 0% fillers, always real meat #1. lifelong smart nutrition. it s all in one. purina one.
. new book reveals never before told details about the political partnership president and chief strategist. steve bannon, donald trump the presidency written by joshua green. it s fast nationing with a lot of stories from the company trail, including how the talk of a border wall began. here s what joshua green told me earlier today. the idea from the wall didn t come from donald it came from two advisers to trump who back in 2013/2014 wanted to keep trump focused on the issue of immigration because they thought it was a powerful one. they knew trump s attention wondered. they came up with this idea of the wall, it s just a device to keep trump focused on immigration. two we mind the speakers to remind the speaking of it.
joshua green of bloomberg business week. it s got a lot of stories from the campaign trail never shared till now include how the talk of a border wall began. the idea for the wall didn t come from donald trump. it came from roger stone and sam.sam nunberg who back in 2013, 2014, wanted to keep trump focused on issue of immigration because they thought it was a powerful one but knew that trump s attention always wandered. they came up with this idea of the wall just as a device to keep him focused on the issue of immigration. to remind him to speak of that. if you can plant that seed in his mind, you can kind of riff on it. at first he didn t seem very excited but wound up going to iowa and tried it out, got a great response from the crowd and did what he does best. he started riffing on it. i m going to build a wall and nobody builds like trump. mexico is going to pay for it.
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