pre we presume is military. after a year there is no funding for the wall and let alone a plan for how mexico not america would pay for it. and it is not just a tweet. according to the post, he pushing the military to fund the project and presented it to house speaker paul ryan and defense secretary john mattis according to three people familiar with the meeting talks to the post. and four days later he is regretting signing of the $1.3 trillion omnibus package saying it was a mistake and he should have followed his instincts. the spending bill only give the president $1.6 million for the border and white house had been pushing for $25 billion. and nbc news national security reporter courtney is at the pentagon. can the pentagon pay for a wall? so theoretically yes, sort
that s actually cute. who is going to pay for that wall? 100%. they don t know it yet, but that doesn t matter. wait, i m not not sure that entirely clear. who did he say was going to pay for the wall? mexico. mexico. mexico. mexico. apparently what candidate donald trump said mexico would pay for the border wall he meant the u.s. military. well that is what we think any way. take this tweet on the omnibus bill which the president said he to sign to fund the military. quote, because of the 700 and $716 billion got tone rebuild our military, many jobs are create and our military is again rich building a great border wall with drugs, poison and enemy combatants pouring into our country is all about national defense. build wall through m. and m. we
and they did as part of that mission, they built about 30 miles of fencing. they also built places for them to stay and some roads and what. no b and what not, but that ws a border mission by the national guard. so there is a precedent for something similar to this but there could be so many hurdles to be jumped over in order for the u.s. military to be the one who would do this mission. is it going to happen? your guess is as good as mine. i ve stopped predicting anything on this administration because i m always wrong. i think that it is theoretically possible but all of the logistics that any agency would have to take on, the department of defense would as well, so it would be a hurdle. and that is a stretch. courtney kube at the pentagon. thank you. let s go to matt shlap from the american conservative union. and it doesn t look like mexico is paying for the wall. is that going to be a problem for the president?
response was, it s okay. i trust whatever he does. i trust his instincts. if the wall does not go up, will he pay for it politically or a problem for him come the 2020 election? i think it is a problem but also a problem for the democrats if they block any attempt to build that wall. and i think that is the problem here. president obama and hillary clinton, the other democrats at the national level all voted to secure our southern border and voted for fencing. you know this. you ve covered this. it is all a silly word game. in the end we have a poor southern border and any politician who is smart will realize the benefit making sure we have security at the southern border when it comes to drugs and people entering our country illegally. that is something we should all agree on, any politician that stands up against that there will be consequences for that. do you not concede one thing, that it is a bit wild to say we shouldn t listen to what the president said? i absolutely think
fails and then the hawkish voices use the failure to push for much worse, more aggressive solutions. remember, john bolton, incoming national security advisor has written his own op-ed in the wall street journal arguing the case for a first strike against north korea. jeffrey, thank you so much for coming on and being with us today. it s a pleasure. and remember this? i will build a great, great wall on our southern border. i will have mexico pay for that wall. mark my words. we re going to build a wall, folks. we re going to build a wall. we re going to build it. don t worry. we re going to build the wall. that wall will go up so fast your head will spin. and whose going to pay for the wall? who s going to pay for the wall? who s going to pay for the wall? i ve never done that before.