fisher on his favorite network, seemingly attracted to the company by their assurances of being cheaper and faster. i don t know if you heard about this contractor who said he could build the whole wall cheaper than anybody else and get it done by 2020. are you aware of that? yes, i am. we are dealing with him. fisher comes from north dakota, recommended by a great new senator, kevin kramer. reporter: north dakota senator, kevin kramer took fisher to the state of the union. fisher and his wife donated $10,000 to kramer s senate campaign. in an interview, kramer said trump auz brings them up. he s talked to the president twice about fisher, including yesterday. the army core of engineers passed over fisher s bid for one part of the wall because it didn t meet the operational requirements an official told the post. they are in the mix for other parts of the $5 billion in
various people need all the time. contracts and all that stuff. are you confident that none of that is happening now? of course not. you have a president that even now there are reports that he wanted the army core of engineers to send a contract to somebody who was a big donor to trump. that s not how things work. as i say, when you use government resources and access for personal gain, that s corruption. i would say with this administration, it starts at the top. that story with the north dakota firm with a prominent ceo who is a donor as well that trump has been advocating to steer a border wall contract to. i think on the face, it s a law of my knowledge of contracting law is not great. you can t do that, right? we have various requiremens s when it s issued and certainly
interview. there is lots of interviews that various people need all the time. contracts and all that stuff. are you confident that none of that is happening now? of course not. you have a president that even now there are reports that he wanted the army core of engineers to send a contract to somebody who was a big donor to trump. that s not how things work. as i say, when you use government resources and access for personal gain, that s corruption. i would say with this administration, it starts at the top. that story with the north dakota firm with a prominent ceo who is a donor as well that trump has been advocating to steer a border wall contract to. i think on the face, it s a law of my knowledge of contracting law is not great. you can t do that, right? we have various requirements when it s issued and certainly
of illicit things are pouring through our border. you know, we talk about points of entry. one of the things we do have now is a lot of money for points of entry. everything was given the money so much that you almost don t know what to do with it by congress. when it came to the wall they wanted to hold back. it was politics. in fact, i hear the democrats want to take down all walls along the southern border. if you do that will you have a different country. first of all, they won t do it. they know it s wrong. they know walls are necessary maybe more than we do. but they re playing a political game and their new game is let s take down all walls. i saw what beto wanted to take down walls. they asked me, what do you think? i said i think that s probably the end of his political career. we re doing very well on the wall. we re building a lot of wall right now you know that. in the valley, we re doing tremendous work in a very important area. we have a lot more under negotiation right n
know, president trump just has to open government. there s a crisis in the oval office. we have a president that s abusing power and shutting down government and trying to use that as leverage to fund a wall that experts say is not only ineffective but everyone says is too expensive and impractical. what is your view for people watching at home that may think the government should reopen but they like something about the idea that a commander in chief may need to declare an emergency or go to the army core of engineers and those things that we re hearing about. what is wrong with, in your view, what the president could be proposal.