he never actually explained how mexico would do that. he had a deal on the table with congress and democrats to make this happen, and i think frankly what happened there is his hardline, more ideological immigration advisers realized that they would rather prevent daca from happening than have that wall because anyone who really knows the immigration issue knows that the wall is not, you know, going to do much. so that was scuttled. and now he doesn t understand how the budgeting process works. you can t go to the pentagon and say, hey, you just got all this money from this bill. he says they re rich now. right. congress actually specifies exactly what the pentagon can use that money for, which is a pretty basic part of the constitution. i keep thinking about all those other republicans who are on the debate stage and during the primaries who were all saying, you know, this is not
interested in this idea, and even if they were, he would have to go back to congress to get the money approved, and that s going to be impossible. i mean he s tried to get mexico to pay for this wall. he s tried to get congress to pay for the wall. and now he s trying to get the military to pay for the wall. the only thing he hasn t tried so far is a gofundme campaign. in each of these cases he had absolutely no understanding about the process by which that would happen, right? he never actually explained how mexico would do that. he had a deal on the table with congress and democrats to make this happen, and i think frankly what happened there is his hardline, more ideological immigration advisers realized that they would rather prevent daca from happening than have that wall because anyone who really knows the immigration issue knows that the wall is not, you know, going to do much. so that was scuttled. and now he doesn t understand how the budgeting process works. you can t go to
substantive view. i think the problem for speaker boehner, while he does have to deal with the whole caucus, people don t know what his substantive view is. any other resolutions for him? well, i think, maybe part of the resolution for me, too, we have to give up on this big grand bargain of getting any type of legislation done. and that he should try and go after immigration reform but do it in a fashion that we get something done. yeah. and we are as we ve been reporting, hiring one of mccain s immigration advisers among other things, thank you very much. and we thanks, ari. absolutely. we ll be right back. i ve got a big date, but my sinuses are acting up. it s time for advil cold and sinus. [ male announcer ] truth is that won t relieve all your symptoms. hmm? [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer plus-d relieves more symptoms than any other behind the counter liquid gel. thanks for the tip. [ male announcer ] no problem. oh.and hair products. aisle 9.
but even within the romney campaign, i have to say there is another model for dealing with problems like this. this may come from the way mr. romney was beaten in 2008. it may have left his campaign determined that he not get stuck with the flip flopper label again. even though they leave the ads with the lies in them up and sometimes mr. romney goes on tv invents a brand new policy position he s never had before. after he does that, his staff follows behind him and quietly releasing statements taking back his quotes. when mr. romney was asked in an interview last week about one of his immigration advisers. he said he could not confirm whether kris kobch was part of his team. and they yes, he s a romney campaign adviser. so he tells an interview he s never met with him but his campaign says what he said was not true. same thing happened last month when mr. romney came out with a whole new policy position on abortion rights.
another model for dealing with problems like this. this may come from the way mr. romney was beaten in 2008. it may have left his campaign determined that he not get stuck with the flip flopper label again. even though they leave the ads with the lies in them up and sometimes mr. romney goes on tv invents a brand new policy position he s never had before. after he does that, his staff follows behind him and quietly releasing statements faeg back his quotes. when mr. romney was asked in an interview last week about one of his immigration advisers. he said he could not confirm whether kris kobch was part of his team. and they yes, he s a romney campaign adviser.