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Programs like the epa. promises kept. taxpayers first. read the list and each promise pairs with the big demographic the president won in 2016 and will need to win again in 2020. senior analyst kaitlan collins is with us at the white house. kate, i know you memorized this in the last hour. tell us what you see when you look at this document right now. like you said, this is meaningless, especially now that democrats are in charge of the house, but what you re seeing is the president renew his demand that congress pay for the board wall. he s asking for $8.6 billion for the wall, some from the security committee, some from the department of defense. the president not learning his lesson coming off that shutdown fight, the fight that didn t earn any money for the president and his border wall, and they re ....
When the whole point is that no, he has not, but when you got nothing, that s the best you can do is cite a largely fictitious standard. no that door is still apparently open or sarah sanders didn t have the clarity or authority to speak on behalf of the president conclusively to it. i ve got a question for maya on budgets. here s my question r for you on this whole news of trump releasing the budget to congress. the big one that everybody s latching on to today is the 8.6 billion for construction of the border wall. there was a question again from a reporter toe, is is mexico going to pay for it. news flash, no. why do you think the president is bring iing this up again? is it about the fight for 2020? is it about needing the money? what do you think? right, well i think the fact that the wall is going to be what gets so much attention when ....
Well as lying. so you take just step back for a second and consider what this president has done to this nation. there is no truth in the white house, and pardons are being tossed around. what effect does that have on what may have come about with the underlying information that mueller was seeking from this man? we don t know. was there a message? there certainly could have been a coded message sent very, very clearly and now we re getting a very clear signal from sarah huckabee sanders that a pardon is in the offing. well, she said she didn t say it s in the offing. she said potentially it s not being ruled out. it s in the offing. that s your that s my view. that s your interpretation. let s quickly talk about the president s new proposed budget that was submitted to congress today. he s asking specifically for $8.6 billion for wall funding. how much are you willing as a democrat in the house, how much do you think you re willing to ....
everything that i have said requires that we take action based on evidence. the evidence is there, there should be accountability. for the record, evidence has been gathered and the u.n. has concluded assad was behind the april 20 17 chemical weapons attack. that was an easy one that she did not deliver on. joining us is julian zelizer. good morning. thanks so much for being here. i want to get to 2020 in a second, but let s start first with this budget that has been proposed. president trump going back to the well on this, an $8.6 billion for the wall doubling down on that. and drastic cuts to domestic spending. what can be read into this budget proemposal? he s doubling down on the issue he believes is a key issue for his campaign, he will force the discussion about the wall. now republicans are going to have to deal with it again. and now it will be framed as ....
Your view, needs to take a step and ground these planes now until we know more. david, former faa staffer, thanks very much for joining us. the other news this morning, it s a month late. hundreds of millions of dollars short and even though it has no chance of becoming a reality, it is sure to set off another battle between president trump and congress. it is the president s budget plan for 2020, which arrived on capitol hill within the last hour. those are the pictures there. those big, thick books. delayed because of that government shutdown. and utterly dismissed by democrats. and this is crucial. even by some republicans. here s the first of many nonstarters for democrats. $8.6 billion for president trump s desired wall. plus, on top of that, reimbursement of the military construction funds the president is commandeering with his emergency decree. cnn s alison kosik joins me to break it all down. big picture for folks at home ....