pretty assertively. and he had this to say about the u.s.-mexico border. >> president trump: and we are going to have tremendous border security that will include the wall. a lot of people don't know it, but we have already started the wall. we have $1.6 billion and we have started large portions of the wall, but we are going to need, even the way we negotiate, we will need more and we will get more and we may have to do some pretty drastic things, but we are going to get it. >> tucker: the border wall of course the centerpiece of the president's 2016 campaign and yet republicans in congress for the past year and a half have not been eager to provide funding for that wall, or the border enforcement with the president has repeatedly promised. they are content to produce ag master tax cut and not a lot else. byron york has been watching carefully and he joins us tonight.