last week i heard donald trump say $18 billion, we can do it for much less. i m a fast builder. i can do it cheaper and i can do it faster. and now a week later we are back at $18 billion. we ve been told he now understands he doesn t need all of that wall, that it s 700 miles we re talking about. i think the grand durbin bill includes language on there s no bill. the only bill out there is this durbin bill right now. there s no bill. put them all on the floor and vote. now, matt, here s your problem, like jim jordan advances let s keep our promises, that s why we got elected. and you got the hedge position from kelly. i don t think it s a hedge. we re going to build a wall. he said we re going to bring a big wall all the way across or now i m informed and i ve learned about things called maps
was saying we do not need a solid wall. here s what confuses me. last week i heard donald trump say $18 billion, we can do it for much less. i m a fast builder. i can do it cheaper and i can do it faster. and now a week later we are back at $18 billion. he s been told he now understands he doesn t need all that mile, that it s 700 miles we re talking about. i think the grand bill includes language on there s no bill. the only bill out there is this durbin bill right now. there s no bill. now, matt, here s your problem, like jim jordan advances let s keep our promises, that s why we got elected. i don t think it s a hedge.
protections for the dreamers. and 57% of folks in these battleground states that were polled say they don t want this funding for the wall. so whether it is c.h.i.p., the dreamers, whether we re talking about americans pensions, funding for veterans and the military, these are all things that are biparsan priorities and so, agn, if the government shuts down, it is not on the fault of democrats. so i think democrats should not be concerned if you will about what kind of blame might come their way if the government shuts down. they should continue to negotiate in good faith. but if a bill comes to the floor that does not include protections for dreamers, i, myself, lots of other progressive folks on the left and activists believe that democrats should not vote for it. democrats have been saying, they stay with dreamers for a long time. now is where the rubber meets the road and have to put the money where their mouth is. if democrats vote for a bill that does not include protections for
know, the grand bill, the dick durkin bi durbin bill, would you support that? i don t know where they are on the chain migration. it is extended families and there is debate, that s the thing that has to be debated, john. that s why you couldn t put that in this cr, this spending bill that we have to pass by tomorrow. there is still debate on whether that should go to immediate family, what is the definition of an immediate family, is it moms and dads, brothers and sisters, is it second aunts? that s the thing being discussed now and debated. we could agree on that, we could get all four elements of the immigration reform done. are you concerned that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell essentially says he has no idea what the president wants, no idea what the president will sign and that republicans are, in his words, spinning their wheels until the president makes that clear. do you think the president has made clear what he wants, what he will sign? again, i m not part of th
blame. newt gingrich got the blame. 2013, john boehner and house republicans took the blame even with boem in the with barack obama in the whougs. is there a case to be made that putting daca/the d.r.e.a.m.ers into this cr is a mistake? there s too much to it. you re not going to get just that, whether a wall component and/or security, chain migration, the lottery, do you think there s just too much to fit it in in two days? no comprehensive immigration reform is enough to plesh by friday, but the terms of the graham/durbin bill, which i saw on paper, included 1.6 billion for construction of something that president trump would call a wall and the democrats would call virtual fencing or whatever