since 2012. it was removed earlier this month after the council skborsed president trump s $5.7 billion wall proposal. council president who endorsed trump during his campaign told politico it was the position of previous leaders but was taken down for causing confusion. while meeting with the top congressional leaders of both parties earlier this month president trump harshly criticized his new chief of staff over shutdown negotiations. two sources who were present tell axios it happened on the situation room on january 4th when mick mulvaney tried to compromise a sum of money for the wall. one of sources said mulvaney was saying if democrats weren t okay with $5.7 billion and the president wasn t okay with $1.3 billion the democratic offer he was saying we should find middle
the president and his team making sure border security negotiations come before the government re-opens. there were talks over the weekend between vice president pence, top capitol hill staffers, they did not receive or end up in an outcome of any way. what they did end up with is the administration for the first time laying out in detail its $5.7 billion wall proposal. why that matters more than anything else, besides the fact the administration put something on paper is because they did not move an inch from the top-line number. $5.7 billion. that s now the paper on the table and that more than anything else is why the negotiations are still at a standstill. wolf, the most interesting element now yoin lo, when you l the president s planned trip to the border, his speech tomorrow night, it s now not trying to figure out if there s a path forward, more seems like it s shoring up their own bases. tomorrow vice president mike pence before the speech is expected to come up to capitol hill
the ridiculous immigration laws that our country is settled with. i do believe there was a congress and president who would approve. the president is threatening again to cut aid to honduras, guatemala and el salvador for failing to prevent their citizens from traveling illegally to the us border. the white house and democrats are a few billion dollars apart on funding for border security, donald trump insists on many for a wall. democrats say the wall proposal is immoral, ineffective and expensive. republicans are now trying to pin shutdown blame on nancy pelosi saying she s refusing to negotiate on wall funding to appeal to liberal house democrats and assure their support in her race for speaker. he does not have the votes. if she cut a deal with the president of any sort before her election on january 3rd she s at risk of losing her speakership. we are in this for the long haul. reporter: are public and are pointing to a story published in the washington free beacon claiming she
includes $5 billion for a border wall can somehow pass. we ll get the latest in a moment from the capitol hill team. but remember, folks, this is two years of the trump presidency, many ways summed up in one day. he is blaming democrats for not sending him a bill with what he called perfect border security except for one problem, his own party, republicans not only control both chambers of congress for the next two weeks, they ve been dealing with his wall proposal for the last two years and yet to find the money for it. if he doesn t have support for a border wall by now in his own party, it is on him and his fellow republicans. here we are. the president won t sign a deal without funding for a wall. the senate doesn t have votes to pass a deal with funding for a wall, and house republican conference is just a mess. we don t know if a third of them will show up. one member told us they re literally watching his twitter feed to figure out what the heck is going on, quote, because that
decision. reporter: this joint statement, this holiday season the president knows full well that his wall proposal does not have the votes to pass the house and senate and should not be an obstacle to a bipartisan agreement but house majority whip steve scalise says the problem lies with democrats. the president was willing to put a lot of people on the table to negotiate with democrats in return for wall funding and they walked away and said they are not going to do anything because the extreme left doesn t want to do anything because they want open borders, that is the dilemma where nancy pelosi is right now. reporter: the freedom caucus is this is the last chance before democrats take over the house and they fulfill the president s promise to the american people to build that wall. the meeting is at 11:30 and we will see, it appears democrats are offering $1.3 billion which is the same as fiscal year 2018.