you ve got to be sitting there thinking my god, how low is he going to drag this party? joe, i talked to some people on capitol hill, republicans yesterday, they are furious that the president is taking this line. they ve said it again. shutdowns are bad. please, mr. president, stay on the sideline, let us work with nancy pelosi. we can figure something out. i ll read her quote again. there s not going to be any wall money in the legislation. that first bid, that first offer that democrats put out, not only did it not have any wall funding it didn t mention a wall, didn t mention a barrier of any kind although pelosi did say we can do a fence, if you want to call it a wall go ahead. president trump tweeting all morning yesterday. yeah. and what s so weird is again, he just goes back and forth, if you re a republican on capitol hill you ve got to be absolutely furious because now suddenly he said maybe it s not a wall,
if it could be built tomorrow it can t it will prevent the essential americans to get their feet on american soil. they re not going to put a shovel on the ground for as much as a year or more. yeah. even if he got this money. optimistic, incredibly optimistic to think there would be miningful construction in a yearment even if he declares an emergency setting aside litigation, people suing about this. you have to understand, i don t want to discount the litigation. there s going to be a lot of litigation. a lot of this land is privately held land by ranchers and farmers on the borderline themselves. they re not going to give it up easily to let a wall go through there. let s show you. part of this briefing yesterday seemed to be undercutting the president s argument about a wall as he was told the existing sections of the wall can be tunnelled under. let s watch. here, this is just a couple of miles from here from where we re standing. this is a tunnel. this is the sec
promised a border wall. he has to stand by. that i like him because he doesn t switch. he stands his ground. if i were to see a wall go up in my community, i would veal very oppressed by. reporter: the word promise gets thrown around a lot. i made a point to ask folks, especially those a support the president. is the wall a promise that they want him to keep? and some of them, you heard from a former border patrol agent say that they do expect him to keep it and stand his ground. and i know you were on the trail with him for over 500 days and you heard him say over and over again the wall is a promise. for many it is a symbol. for some of it is a promise they expect him to stand by. do they expect him to stand by mexico paying for it? i think these are the ones that .to yesterday. they think that s not really going to happen. in terms of the shutdown, when i asked them, when there are work
i don t like that idea. i ve been through four of those in my career. it s not a good thing. but i don t think it s totally his fault, but it has to come something s got to give. i think the wall is necessary. if i were to see a wall go up in my community, i would feel very oppressed by that. i love the fact that i live in a community that has this bi-national fluidity. reporter: so one of the things, steph, that you were talking about before is does border security equal a concrete border wall like the president is asking for. and if you listen to that local resident that we just heard from, many people hearsay no, because in this area of the border, you have the rio grand river. it already acts as a sort of natural barrier. so most of the people here that i ve spoken to, even those who voted and support the president, say they do want the drones, they do want the technology. what they call here a virtual wall, not a concrete wall.
$5 billion wall is not going to, where does this wall go in the 1,200-plus miles of wall, and how does donald trump get this done when the current wall cost s over $7 billion, itself. it is showing you that the numbers are out of whack. and donna, pretend that you are a freshman democrat coming in, and so far nancy pelosi as the speaker designate is showing a lot of political savvy here. tomorrow, the democrats are going to demonstrate a unified party when it comes to standing up against this president and what that means. there is not going to be a wall. the vote that is going to be taking place puts mitch mcconnell in a bad place. the senate overwhelmingly and even by voice vote voted for the bill on the house floor tomorrow and back over to the senate.