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He wanted. he knows that. theres other ways to get those dollars but reprogramming existing funds. he will get there. but this is an incremental process and this is a down payment. he will be building a wall and he got the democrats to concede. they werent going to put a single dollar in. look at what they were trying to do with capping the number of beds, the number of criminals that could be detained by immigrations and custom enforcement. that was a win. i think the president can live to figh...

Reach out to senator cruz on this. so far we have not heard back. it is an interesting idea to say the least. $14 billion. you have to weigh them. have to weigh the idea that this money is -- would have to consider it blood money and the other idea, border security, which would help everyone, help americans, also help those on the other side of the border. thomas, as i just said, it was a complicated proposal. $14 billion is very enticing. its money that came at the expense of a lot of lives. >>...

They launched the russia investigation. where have you seen theyve been fired and left. we need to get to the bottom of that. took one partys opposition research and made it peer to be legitimate intelligence to spy on the presidents campaign. that shouldnt happened in the united states of america but did. >> charles: less than a minute. hard break. you want to continuing resolution for a week. you think youll get it? >> it allows to us continue to negotiate for building the border security wall...

This works sense. build the wall, cartels get less money, illegal aliens can go through the port. will hurt this cartels bottom line and save lives. going to save a lot of lives. border patrol saved 4,000 people. this makes sense to me. >> most of these assets are mexico. so there would probably have to be some form of negotiation with mexico. you think they would be okay with that? >> i think i they should be. theyve had a war on drugs for many years. this will help holding the cartels in check...

Annual energy costs. so these are all part of this sort of utopia that a lot of engineers come up with in washington, but in the lives of the american people, they have real practical everyday costs. thats what the american people will be looking at. >> senator thune, speaking of open borders, i want your thoughts on this compromise and the potential for president trump to sign it and there being a vote on it. >> right. i think, charles, there is, as you know a negotiation and some give and take...

An agreement with people who are more focused on stopping the president than they are on helping the country. i always say remember ten years ago, both then-senator clinton, senator obama, both of them said they were for money for border security wall, money for a bauerier. and, of course -- barrier. and, of course, today the democrats are taking extreme positions. secretary clinton, when she ran for president just a couple years ago,ing saying we need a borderless hemisphere. youve got the spea...

Security budget, and its money that hasnt been appropriated. constitutionally, congress has to appropriate dollars, but money thats there that hasnt been spent and appropriated, the president can use that to construct border security fencing under current law. to build the border security wall, he would need to declare an emergency or congress would need to pass language which says we appropriate these dollars for a border security wall, and thats been a hang-up. democrats wont negotiate with us...

Border security wall den. maria: so nothing really has changed. you were among those pushing the president to dig in, look, keep the government closed. was all of that worth it? >> we were pushing the president to do what with we told the american people we were going to do. it doesnt take a genius -- what are we on now, the fifth caravan forming, going to be here any day now in texas? anyone with common sense can see we need a border security wall, we need to secure our border, we need to refor...

Scratcher, how she could call a wall immoral knowing that she has this wall separating tijuana and san diego in her own state. do you think the president will call for a national emergency during the state of the union on tuesday night? should he do that? >> i dont know if he will then. i do think as he said just the other day, he is seriously consider considering that. thatll be the presidents call. what i know is the president is committed to securing the southern border, committed to building...

He needs. lets work through this security clearance process. the administration has done that. understand they are so focused on stopping the president and not on helping the country. i think well continue to see this. i hope that changes but it certainly doesnt look like it is going to. >> sandra: i have to leave it there. a couple seconds left. how does the shutdown story end? >> if nancy pelosi would get focused on helping the country we would get a solution. lets sit down and negotiate and n...