Or any expert has supported a wall like what the president has proposed. so, where do we go from here? well, three proposals are on the table. two by democrats. leader nancy pelosi and i. one by leader mcconnell. each of which would reopen the government and provide $1.3 billion in border security. we are also open to discussing any proposals with the president as long as they don t include funding for the wall. but in order for an agreement to be reached, all four congressional leaders must sign off, and the president must endorse it and say that he will sign it. leader mcconnell must agree. speaker ryan must agree. they cannot duck responsibility. leader mcconnell still controls this chamber. speaker ryan controls what reaches the floor of the house.
Coulter both calling him out for not getting his way on the border wall funding. how much of a role do you think they played in his change of heart? i think a lot. risch limbaugh historically has been very influential with politicians on the right. when rush engages someone he gets reaction from his audience. but look, i am sure that congress was debating what kind of horse shoe has the horses would have during for stage coaches when the railroads were being invented. zerlina is right. the wall it really is stupid. it would be like shipping your christmas packages by pony express. it utterly pointless. there is no reason to build a wall. walls make sense in certain urban areas. we have them already. we don t need walls going through deserts. we have plenty of technology that can do those things. and by the way, drug dealers will have no problem drying their drugs into the united states with drones. we need to update the i with a
That s why you saw senator mcconnell essentially raise a right flag this morning and exit these negotiations. he is saying i am going to leave it up to the president to make up a deal. that s because the president threw republicans under the bus when he said he was going to support a stopgap funding until february 8th and then completely pulled the rug out from under them. if i were mcconnell i wouldn t trust president trump either. can you envision when this shutdown will end? how is that going to, loo? democrats and republicans both support border security. donald trump s number one campaign promise was not the wall, it was that mexico would fund the wall. the only way he is going to get his wall is if mexico funds it. u.s. taxpayers are not going the fund this wall. but we will fund border security. i am happy to work with democrats and republicans on language for increasing border security. i also want the remind the american people that there is no
Democrats support security. certainly we are as concerned about keeping american families safe as anyone you about we don t support wasting money on a wall through the desert. i don t see significant change in that. i think there will be opposition from people in the house to any major change in that. congressman, you heard jeff bennett talking about the tweet the president just put out. he speaks about the lunch that will be happening with a number of people, he says a very large group. he says concerning border security. he neglected to say the word wall . that something that democrats could come on board with, with saying we are going to provide this kind of money for border curt but not necessarily to a monolithic looking concrete structure or to the slabs or however the president is envisioning at this point. could that be something that would support a compromise? i don t think the language
Points, why border security is necessary. we heard that over the last weeks, months, maybe even years. but the one flaw in that argument is that mitch mcconnell is the leader of the senate that unanimously passed a spending bill that would essentially give the president $1.6 billion not for a wall or a slat wall or any other kind of wall but for enhancing existing border security. that already passed the senate. they didn t bother to have a roll call vote. it does fend on president trump. as he stated in the infamous photoon where he argued openly with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi in the oval office last week. notwithstanding the video that he posted on twitter this week, saying it is all up to the democrats they owe us the votes. jeff bennett joins us from the white house. jeff, it could seem all of this is going to be done, the negotiating not so much on the