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President trump shows no signs of giving up on his border wall. today the president will ask congress for another $8.6 billion to pay for it. as part of his new budget request. joining me is democratic senator doug jones from alabama. hes also the author of "bending toward justice" about the decades-long struggle to bring justice, or deliver justice for the victims of the 1963 birmingham church bombing. thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> before i ask you questions about today, this ter...

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A balanced budget in 15 years so that is what a lot of what these budget cuts are going toward is a balanced budget projection for 2034. thats a long ways away. we are also a long ways away from this budget ever becoming much of a reality. >> joining me now to discuss this and much more republican congressman of new york. thank you for coming in. >> great to be with you. >> the chairman of the house appropriations committee who handles the budget says this that the budget request is not even wor...

National security crisis at our border and the president is doing his job in addressing it. he gave congress number of opportunities to address it and they failed to do so. the president is taking his constitutional authority that congress granted him -- lets not forget the only reason he has authority to call a national emergency is because congress given the right to do so. >> dana: also addressing about whether or not mexico will be paying for the wall. >> is there anything in the budget requ...

♪ get ready ♪ oh oh oh oh ♪ oh oh oh oh ♪ get ready ♪ moving ♪ ready or not ♪ get ready ♪ oh oh oh oh oh ♪ hey live from americas news headquarters, president trump providing his border wall battle. hes expected to ask congress for an additional $8.6 billion to build a barrier when he unveiled his budget request for the fiscal year tomorrow. this comes as the senate prepares to vote on a

The fight over funding for his border wall. the president will ask congress for $8.6 billion more to pay for the wall along the southern border. the administration will make the demand as part of its 2020 budget request, which it will send to congress today. the new funding figure is more than six times what congress has set aside for bored are proje-- projects and its more than what trump was able to get by declaring a national emergency. and shum are and pelosi on trumps new wall funding deman...

Wall and the president was forced to admit defeat and reopen the government without getting his wall. the same thing will repeat itself if he tries this again, so we hope he learned his lesson. >> funding legislation must be passed before october 1st, and the president has started to make his case or have his team make the case because last hour we witnessed the first white house press bereaving in 32 days. in. >> the fiscal year to 20 budget provides size able bumt for completion of the wall an...

Medicaid cuts in here. over $200 billion in food and nutrition support and when you have a ten -- which i think it will be, not five, but 10% across the board that will hit everything people care about from cancer and alzheimers research to headstart funding. so i think that also this is part of trumps strategy of diverting the shiny objects from a value structure that i think most of middle america may not support. >> those are very important signals and a very important reminder from you. jaco...

So why does it matter to you? because of this. the wall fight. the president demanding more than $8 billion for it, on top of the $8 billion he hopes to get from his national emergency. this is a re-election pitch. president trump basically saying, hey, the reason you should re-elect me is these are great, frankly, rosy predictions for the economy. with fears of another shutdown, what does this mean for the countrys bottom line? we have a lot to get to. lets get to geoff bennett at the white hou...

Fact that he hasnt given up his fight over the border wall. publicly, white house officials say they think they win on the merits. they think this wall constitutes good policy. privately though, they say it is good politics. the president needs to energize his base and his base of conservative commentators who the president, we know, cares so much about. here are some of the other highlights in the budget request. $8.6 billion in wall funding. it calls for eliminating the deficit in 15 years, no...