very important and the lottery system and in addition we want money for funding. we need some additional border security. reporter: this comes as the president s administration is privately laid out a request for put billion dollars in additional border funding including $18 billion for the wall and all of that is a tough ask for republicans to make of democrats but those discussions are going to happen the coming months. one issue the president did not manage to escape during his weekend retreat at camp david was questions about his mental fitness. he perhaps even amplified those questions yesterday as he took to twitter and stout himself as a stable genius and followed that up with more questions yesterday during that brief news conference alongside republican leaders during which he touted his success from college to the board room and to his current presidency. back to you. jeremy, stay with us here. i want to bring in as well julian zeleny, a cnn political