and $1.7 billion increase in overall funding for the department of homeland security. but the deal was just the first hurdle. coming up next is the vote and already key voices on the right, both within the media and on capitol hill say the deal isn t good enough. house freedom caucus chairman mark meadows a close trump ally tweeted that the deal isn t serious and, quote, congress is not doing its job. and while the president says another shutdown is not likely that does not mean that he approves. sir, will you sign congress s border deal? i have to study it. i m not happy about it. it s not doing the trick but i m adding things to it and when you add whatever i have to add, it s all it s all going to happen where we ll build a big, beautiful strong wall cnn s abby phillip is live at the white house and abby, the president s grumbling about the deal terms but what s the white
can t come in because of a medical issue and so we don t know. we really don t know if we ll ever see michael cohen again whether or not he s going to appear before members of congress, whether or not he ll appear before the senate. they certainly want him to appear. today, the ranking member of the senate intelligence committee richard burr said they really want to talk to him and they re hoping they could talk to him before he goes to jail which as you said is march 6th. but that may not happen. who knows what s going on? can t he go to prison and then be in front of this committee? that s what a lawyer told me. it could happen. it could happen certainly. it would be something that s very unlikely but it could happen. who knows when s the last time someone who s actually in prison has appeared before members of congress. it could happen. there s no reason why. i m sure the marshals could set something up. they could send people, the committee members could go to the federal priso
exactly sorry, brooke. i think i lost you here. can you hear me, abby? reporter: it s not clear what president trump meant by that. he s referring to this conference report. the problem is if president trump decides all of a sudden that he s going to change or add to this bill, it could be a serious problem. republicans and democrats have been haggling over this for weeks. they would have to go back to the drawing board to get buy-in for whatever president trump wants to add to it. there is one thing that president trump has been working on with his aides for weeks now behind the scenes and that is potentially getting money together from other parts of the government in order to build the wall without congress appropriating the money for it, at least not at the levels that he had asked for, $5.7 billion. now if he takes what congress gives him in this bill and then adds to it money that has been pulled from other parts of the
i feel like what we re seeing now it seems to me is a realization of the new world order in washington with democrats in control of one branch and the political pain that he clearly saw in the polls from the 35 day longest shutdown in history. he does not want to revisit that. he mentioned or he certainly he doesn t but the president is considering other options to get this full funding for his wall. we heard mick mulvaney calling them pots of money. what other options would the president even have now? reporter: well, i think they re looking at various executive actions up to and including potential declaring a national emergency. you re starting to see some republicans in congress who are very alarmed about that just a few weeks ago maybe a little less so now seeing it as the only option left at this stage of the game. the president continues to say every options available to him. what is crystal clear from these
moments, and again, until he signs it and that ink is dry, we remain in a fluid situation. we always have to caveat that here. if it is indeed moving towards his signature, he sees zero more option for getting actual appropriations out of congress for thinks wall. so he s talking about the press about he s feeling about this bipartisan deal, he also talks about ilhan omar. he weighs in, weighing in about her anti-semitic tweet that earned her bipartisan criticism. here was the president. congressman omar is terrible what she said and i think she should either resign from congress or she should certainly resign from the house foreign affairs committee. what she said is so deep seated in her heart that her lame