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Have a strong, credible press secretary and be surrounded by the people who can go on air and straighten these things out is a real weakness for him. the normal white house would have one person to go to the microphone and walk the press through this and the president doesnt have to get involved in every little detail. >> i remember mulvaney, before he was the acting chief of staff, he went out and showed pictures of what he said were new wall being built. that was just rehappenibbing exg fencin...

Wanted all along. which is fine if you say you wanted a pony for christmas but you got a hobby horse instead. make believe is fine in youre a kid or a real estate developer in new york. its different when youre a president and when youre twisting the facts to make that case. the whole range of issues surrounding the border and the showdown over it. i spoke earlier with a republican of florida. >> he is saying he should change the chant from build the wall to finish wall. how can you finish wall ...

David axelrods mike. if the president does declare national emergency during the state of the union, i would be a departure from the normal standard dull state of the unions were used to, i guess. >> thats right. what hes clearly trying to do is tease us and build an audience for what could be a speech that -- he hasnt been successful at primetime speeches. the last one he gave at the oval office about the wall was a dud. i think this is important speech for him. i do think if he goes with a nat...

New. hes been making them at rallies as well as official appearances now for nearly a year. two months ago he said he just awarded a contract for 115 miles of wall. he had them. today, he said he was using cash on hand to fund the wall. broadly speaking only congress can appropriate money. what the president seems to be doing now is re-imagining stuff that isnt really what he wanted as something that hes actually wanted all along. which is fine fine if you say y wanted a pony for christmas but y...

We have both sides sitting down to work this out. thats what i want to see continue. i want to see them come to an agreement before february 15th. >> just for a compromise, in terms of compromise you would support if democrats said, okay, there will be more fencing. there will be another ten miles in this area because its a strategic area. this will help. there will be steel slats over here. were not going call it a wall. is that, to you, is that fine as long as theres other things as well for b...

He changed his mind saying you can call the wall anything you want, even peaches. just yesterday he changed his mind yet again tweeting lets call them walls and not staying political games. a walls a wall. last year the president did look at these prototypes for different kinds of walls. nothing that looks anything like this is under construction, let alone finished. no new miles of walls, period. only fencing and none is better or prettier any any way or different as the president suggests from...

Wall. >> have you decided whether or not youre going to decide national emergency? >> whats in my mind? certainly thinking about it. i think theres a good chance that well have to do that. but at the same time well be building -- regardless were building wall and a lot of wall but i could do it a lot faster the other way. >> the president added well see what happens after his state of the union address next tuesday night. trump offered another preview of what comes next. >> on the 15th we have n...

>> dana: president trump speaking and hour ago saying he has strongly legal standing, to declare a national emergency on the southern border which would help him -- the military enable a border wall. john roberts is live at the white house. >> president trump is having a pretty much any hope that this conference of conferees before the house and senate will come up with any kind of solution by february the 15th. he told us in the cabinet room earlier today that in his mind the idea of an emergen...

Both republicans, and democrats said that the fentanyl boston underscores their call to use any new money to stop drugs at the port of entry. using the rising violence at tijuana, and the as for that few between the president and the beaker over the wall, a few facts. there is not 700 miles of pedestrian fence over the border, theres only 350. also were some new wall in four states. and finally, the style favored by the border patrol.

>> do you expect to declare a national emergency? >> you will see what happens. >> the president insists that the united states is already building a lot of wall but that includes from the most part is replacing old fencing with a much stronger border bearing. he still wants to build an additional 215 miles of barriers, most of it 168 miles in texas. but because the wall cannot be built along the border for the most part in texas, the president acknowledges today that building a wall there will ...