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Promise to build the wall reportedly began as a memory trick for an undisciplined candidate, a device to reminding trump to get tough on immigration. if you think he cares about the supposed scourge of undocumented immigrants, we now know that at least a dozen were quietly working at the presidents own westchester golf club until last month, when the club fired the undocumented workers amid the showdown over the border wall. [ speaking spanish ] >> without a new deal the government will shut dow...

Including $3 billion that will never be recovered. in other words, the president effectively lit that money on fire in a fruitless effort to get funding for a wall he famously promised mexico would pay for. in the briefing room today the white house simply refused to acknowledge the finding. >> no, i wont acknowledge any of that right now. now that the government is reopened, the switch goes right back on. theres certainly no permanent damage to the economy. >> no, no, everything is swell. just ...

The wall was just a thing he said on the campaign trail over and over again and the reason why he started saying it is he used it as a kind of memory trick. one of the presidents early aids telling the "new york times" that trumps quote political advisors landed on the idea of a border wall as a new monic device of sorts a way someone who didnt like the read -- and sure enough it was right there on day one >> i would build a great wall and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me and ill b...

Promise, ever. >> yeah. mark, i want to read this. this is from "the new york times," okay? it says, president trumps promise to build a wall on the southwestern border was a memory trick for an undisciplined candidate. as mr. trump began exploring a presidential run in 2014, his political advisers landed on the idea of a border wall as a mnemonic device of sorts, a way to make sure their candidate, who hated reading from a script but loved boasting about himself and his talents as a builder, co...

Something -- >> steel wall. its going to be steel. it doesnt have to be concrete. >> but to call it a memory trick for an undisciplined candidate. >> so whats interesting, i had not heard that part, but i have to tell you, i have heard many anecdotes where staff would have to do things like this in order to get president trump to either stay on message or, in many cases, don, to try to steer him away from a particular message because they knew if he went out publicly and said something, it would...

Are in really dire straits financially. >> good point. >> because he was not able to fulfill that promise, which he said over and over. this was not some off the cuff thing. this was something that he said and now its been turned into this thing where, oh, well, nancy pelosi needs to get together with him and make this deal. its like that was never your promise, ever. >> yeah. mark, i want to read this. this is from "the new york times," okay? it says, president trumps promise to build a wall on...

You have representatives to call, call them, call your local news station, tell them, you know, make your politicians in washington aware of the pain that you are in because otherwise i really dont see how anyone here in washington is motivated to solve it. >> kasie hunt, thank you very much. still ahead, we will confront one of the biggest lies of the trump campaign, that the u.s. is in crisis over the number of people crossing the border illegally. plus new reporting describes how the pres...

His advisers landed on the idea of a border wall to make sure trump would remember to talk about getting tough on immigration. as the times describes it, what has become a chief sticking point in the government shut down started as a memory trick for an undisciplined candidate. one of trumps early political advisers recalled talking with roger stone about the idea, how do we get him to continue to talk about immigration. he told stone were going to get him to talk about how hes going to build a ...

Receiving end will make adjustment. they always do. and theyll make adjustments. people understand exactly whats going on. but many of those people that wont be receiving a paycheck, many of those people agree 100% with what im doing. were trying to do everything possible to get money to our incredible people, but many of those incredible people agree with me, and they say make sure you win this battle. this is a very important battle to win. >> so despite the presidents claims, a number of rece...