so there s a lot of pressure on the trump administration to figure out how to cut spending and cutting $15 billion is a lot of money, something they don t expect to come forward in that proposal coming to congress, erin. and manu, what is the trump administration now doing? they obviously have to shore up support. this is important. they can go ahead and build a wall if they want, right? he s got the authority to do that, but not the authority to get the money to come up from it. he s got to get that from congress. reporter: that s right. john kelly, the new homeland security secretary, was on capitol hill this week talking to lawmakers about his plans for border security, but i m hearing he did not give a lot of details of what that wall would look like. the republicans and democrats want to hear more details, but they re planning on the administration s planning on putting together a proposal of funding that not only could help with border security, but more national security s
trump supporter kayleigh mcenany, strategist maria cardona and nia-malika henderson. kayleigh, what ais the trepresi going to do if republicans block support for the wall? he needs the money from congress. sure. and i don t think there will be a problem with congressional republicans. we ve heard paul ryan come out and say we want to give president trump this. this was his number one campaign promise. and republicans, congressmen and women need to support a republican president. and i think he can do a lot of cajoling behind the scenes, maneuvering to get these republican congressional individuals there. and i think the one thing he needs to say to them is when have republican gop establishment congressmen and women ever cared about spending? you know, we re called back to two yaears ago with senator mik lee saying let s defund dhs because they ve given out thousands of work permits over the last decade. now all of a sudden they care
about spending. so, i think maneuvering behind the scenes will remedy this problem. here s the thing, though, support for the wall among the american people has dropped dramatically, right? this used to be something every republican would agree with, at least those running for office. here are the numbers. 52% supported a wall in september of twflt. today it s 38%. that s a pretty significant drop and it could affect republican opposition, right? is this going to make it easier for them to go against trump on this issue? will more of them join john mccain? i think so, and we re seeing some of that already. it s really hard to find a border state republicans who are out really trumpeting this idea of building a border, a state wall. and in many ways, it is deja vu all over again. this is the problem that the initial fence that was bush s idea, this is the problem that it had. this is why it s still incomplete, because they couldn t come up with the money to fund it. i mean, these
11 million illegal immigrants. sure, who want a pathway to citizenship and who understand that they have contributed a lot of money to this economy, and it would do what you want, which is to continue to deport the criminal undocumented immigrants, which is what we need. quickly, nia, one question here before we go, though, and that is, donald trump does have a lot of support for some of the things he s doing, all right? the wall support has changed, but in terms of the immigration ban, right now 47% favor it, 53% oppose it. the margin of error there is 3%. i think that may surprise some people watching the show. a lot of people in this country support what he s doing there. will he get the support of congress for these things? perhaps. and a lot of those numbers there, with the support for that travel ban, it s because republicans, you know, are very much supportive of what he s doing, and that s not the case if you look deep into the numbers with the wall. 70% of republicans su
you haven t even heard my catchphrase. i m all done with this guy. box him up. that s terrible. tonight, breaking news. top republicans now breaking with trump over his talk, his big campaign promise to build the wall, this as a new cnn/orc poll shows public support right now, 60% of americans actually disapprove of the wall. manu raju is outfront. manu, you see those poll numbers. you ve been talking to republican lawmakers about this. what are they telling you? reporter: well, there s concern, erin, namely over the price tag. this is something that the republican leadership said could cost anywhere from $12 billion to $15 billion, and we re hearing it will be labeled as emergency spending, which means it does not need to be offset by spending cuts and it could add to the deficit. now, the trump administration is trying to make clear that they believe congress should pay for