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>> okay. that was a central theme of the campaign. a promise to make mexico pay for the wall along the border with the u.s. turns out it wont be mexico footing the bill. it will be you, the american taxpayer, at least at first. trumps team has informed congress they prefer to fund it through appropriations process. he plans to use federal tax money. some top republicans refuse to commit to that plan. there is talk about democrats shutting down the government. it is unclear how it could be accomp...

Astonishing that theyre now saying they want to fund the building of the wall through the appropriations process. and we have heard that mexico is going to pay for the wall. they want to do it in a spending bill according to the great reporting by diedra walsh and the interesting point here is i played a few steps forward that im almost envisioning in my mind the fact that the democrats could filibuster this or could try to shutdown the government over refusing to fund the wall. we could find ou...

>> well, i think it is astonishing that theyre now saying that they want to fund the building of the wall through the appropriations process. and we have mattered mexico will pay for the wall. they want to do night spending bill, according to the great reporting. and the interesting point is, as i play it a few steps forward, im almost envisioning in my mind the fact the democrats could filibuster this or try on shut down the government over refusing to fund the wall. we could find ourselves in ...

Weve made some pretty good progress on that front. take our work on finding cures for deadly diseases, or beating back that opiod epidemic, or our work on mental health. these are all things that we should be very proud of. these efforts were directed by the committees, and drafted by our members, all through regular order. there is still a lot of work to do, like having a fully functioning appropriations process, for example. [ applause ] and so to the minority i want to say this. weve never sh...

Continue to cover preexisting conditions. >> right. dana, i mean, gloria referenced the wall earlier, thats probably the most famous policy position, one of the earliest. would he have to -- in terms of doing that, it would take time, but what would he have to do to get that done or get it started? >> there actually is a law -- a couple of laws on the books. congress has passed legislation saying that there should be a wall or a fence, so he can technically start, but he needs a lot of things to...

Pay for the wall, hes got to have the appropriations process, meaning congress, which holds the purse strings, pass legislation to fund it. thats going to be a difficult task. also, you have environmental questions, and regulations hes going to have to go through because having to build that wall cross the whole border. potentially native american land that hes going to have to deal with. not to mention eminent domain, which is always an issue which youre dealing with something -- building anyth...

Debates, but try to find common ground and not hate each other. i hear about people sitting around thanksgiving dinner table that disagree on a political issue and dont talk about their kids because of that disagreement. we are one country united with the same mission. >> lets talk about this in the election year. how can you separate inflammatory rhetoric of the campaign trail that we are seeing and hearing from the business there at capitol hill. >> were just going to have to do it. capitol hi...

Enough for the forces to operate there. but again, i dont want to diminish the risk they are taking in pursuit of the objectives that the president has identified. >> and this is swun more and i apologize and i know that we are friend, but now that you have a broad budget in place, what is going on with the appropriations process, and what needs to help? and how confident are you that it gets done and it wont include any of the riders that you have -- all right. we will continue to monitor the...

Place behind that podium probably for his last time for the weekly press house conference and hes talking about this bipartisan budget deal and whether he can get it passed. lets listen. >> listen to our members and listen to the american people. we have a budget agreement. this agreement will protect our economy and reduces the deficit. it secures more long-term entitlement reforms, it strengthens our national security and brings more security to next years appropriations process, and protects ...

Really focus on the appropriations process. he wants to pass keystone. evidence doesnt want a legacy that some may attribute to harry reid where nothing really got done. so i think because of mcconnell, is he is going to have a real job there pushing his conference to really do things. and thats going to be one of the major stories i think we are all going to be following in the upcoming zero there definitely is some power struggles within the g.o.p. bob, what do you think? >> republicans face a...