high-priority law enforcement areas. republicans are upset that the democratic plan does not add any new i.c.e. agents. back in the midterm campaign, some democrats wanted to abolish ic altogether. it s a contentious issue. the broader issue is whether speaker nancy pelosi who is called the wall immoral will back whatever plan her democratic colleagues and of coming up with. shannon: first meeting today. they only have days to get it done. thank you. time for tonight s power panel. former acting ic director tom homan. former border patrol chief under president barack obama mark morgan, and austan goolsbee. welcome to all of you. tom, i want to play first of al all, the congresswoman and how she characterizes what kind of crisis this is at the border. the proposal includes funding to address the only real crisis
agents to focus on high-priority law enforcement areas but republicans are upset that the democratic plan does not add any new ice agents. in the midterm campaign some democrats wanted to abolish ice altogether so this is a contentious issue. the bigger broader issue is whether nancy pelosi who called the wall immoral will back whatever plan or democratic colleagues come up with. they only have days to get this done. time for tonight s power panel, former acting ice director thomas homan, border patrol chief under barack obama mark morgan and a singles be has the same boss as mister obama. welcome to all of you. i want to play first of all congresswoman lucille allied and how she characterizes what kind of crisis this is at the border. the president includes funding to address the only real
a process here and that s the process we re going to follow. as you know quite well, speaker nancy pelosi has called the wall immoral. let me ask you this broadly. do you believe that there are democrats in this conference committee who are willing to break with democratic leadership? i am going into this conference committee as the chair, as an appropriator. i ve worked with senator shelby, senator leahy and i m not giving any advance information. we have the facts. the chair of the homeland security committee has pages and pages of information which she s sharing with every member of the house and senate. we have a responsibility to evaluate, look at the facts and try to reach some agreement. so i m not saying what i would do, what i wouldn t do. we re going to look at the facts and have a really good,
colleagues can strike a deal i think the biggest problem is the president. he has this tendency to walk back what he says and move, as you ve heard tonight, move goal posts. i think, you know, my colleagues in the senate and in the house can try to deal this may take longer than three weeks but if they re making progress i think question do something to extend that i have absolute confidence we did this deal had a deal struck back in the summer. especial es spescial in the senate incredible job moving appropriations forward and i think they can do it again. house speaker nancy pelosi drew a line in the sand and the president ultimately had to cave to her she has called the wall immoral. do you agree with that assessment you know, kasie, the big effort problem now is the wall is a metaphor, everybody i talk to in alabama wants stronger border security, and the wall is used for a lot of different ways how they could what we need
i would not rule out a wall in certain instances. now, the notion that we can t have barriers is just something that s not true. jillian: house speaker nancy pelosi has called a wall immoral. congressman thompson said he ll democrats are not opposed to barriers but the white house needs a better plan beyond using the wall as a talking point. some lawmakers appear eager to begin negotiations. rob: republicans need a guarantee that the border will be secured before shaking hands. conservatives are not bound on this. i think they will give on daca type points a lot. once they re assured, just like the american people, that the border will be secure. i think once guarantee that, we guaranteed it so many times and failed but i think if people really believe it s going to pass that we would have a secure border, they would say sure. when you look at daca, you could say about these daca kids after