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Veterans to social security and on and on. neil: youre right. weve gone to the well where you should down the government under both administrations and multiple administrations and congresses. and you talk about you guys had the run of the table in the obama administration and you agree more than you disagree. in your case there are serious and comprehensive i am gra i s gos-- immigration reform and theres a lot more commonalty than the wall. why couldnt it be included in a daca agreement or som...

, it was, we didnt see the same wage growth, so there were a lot of things going on. neil: so did fitch over react? they didnt move, theyre reviewing it right so lets say they do downgrade it? >> and say look, were looking at it. we put out a statement all the time saying were looking at this, were considering it. its an important part of your analysis. neil: but if they pull the trigger then what? >> it could have a short-term impact but long term the credit worthiness of the united states of a...

Fundamental issues that really need to be addressed to provide a secure border. along the way you might also want to include in that the u.s. coast guard. you want to build a wall. coast guard actually builds a wall 1500 miles from the shores of america and thats an important piece of this puzzle, also. so, weve got to do it co comprehensi comprehensively. not not just the wall, the pieces on the puzzles-- >> the problem with the democrats using shutting down the government to get what you want....

>> we have 55 miles in this sector we started a job in 2006 we need to finish that job, weve got the personnel, we need the technology, we need the resources, we need the infrastructure, in order to control this border and manage it. part of our area is covered with some fencing on our east side, that thes for about 6% of our traffic, where we have no fencing over 90% of our traffic occurs in those areas. neil: all right, a lot of border patrol agents are directly affected by this ongoing border...

Huck. hunter is up in tallahassee, neil and hes working with the governor and actually when i was up there for the inauguration, they wouldnt give hunter more praise, theyre like fighting for him to be their intern. so, hunters doing a great job. my other sun huck is down here in broward. hes taking tear of his mom. hes in school at fau with finance and theyre just two different kids and i love them both and im proud of them, but im not finished in broward, neil. we owe the community-- we put a ...

Forward would allow that money to be bonded forward, so we know we get three to 5 billion a year in it, allow it to be bonded, so that that way, you could obligate future receipts for current construction and you could have the funding you need now based upon future receipts. neil: the president has also raised the possibility that money extracted from the mexican trade deal even though it hasnt been ratified yet could be used to pay for this. do you know how that would happen? >> i think that w...

Now, they did condemn his remarks, but they didnt go beyond that and neither, for that matter, did senator scott if you think about it, but what should they do? censure him or-- . >> no, you cant censor him. you cannot dispute the will of the american voters that elected him, but i want to encourage them to find a candidate and it looks like theres a primary challenge. dont support the guy, but, neil, to be honest with you, the damage has already been done. its the republican party now that sudd...

Of the president, then candidate trump, who talking about mexico paying for the wall and obviously, hes talking about changing our trade agreements and boosting the economy. neil: i dont think that was obvious. >> it wasnt obvious to me. neil: he never said im going to extract this from the trade deal >> but we all knew that was the platform and they were robbing us, remember all of the rhetoric neil: pay for it means pay for it whether it means i write you a check i say im going to give you mon...

Neil: all right. senator cassidy was a little earlier in the last hour here outlining a plan that might be acceptable to both sides, even though democrats do not appear to be very keen on it, that use the funds taken from the drug runners along the border here, billions of dollars, which are gathered each and every year and use that to pay for the wall. id want to get reaction to all that with democratic california congressman john ga garamundy. >> that would probably work, but theres an issue s...

Excited about around here in maddow land is -- wait for it -- the final tallies of political spending. for example, year-end financial filings are giving us a peek into how much money hedge fund manager robert mercer spent in 2018. as major trump supporters, the mercers who are the big money behind breitbart news and the now defunct cambridge analytica, he pumped $25 million into the 2016 election. bloomberg news reports the mercers are stepping back from some of that. a mere -- spending a mere ...