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He wants to engage on. >> reporter: well, a lot of people who are somehow involved in investigations feel the fbi is unfairly targeting them, but the president normally has a different role -- >> we know for a fact that the fbiin gaug iengaged in an outra amount of political bias, particularly under james comeys leadership is frankly laughable. >> reporter: using terms like rat, who are cooperating witnesses -- >> or -- >> reporter: doesnt he have a responsibility to preserve confidence in the r...

On this issue of reprogramming specifically, is your red line in these negotiations that you need congress to reprogram money explic explicitly so the defense department or whoever it might be, the congress say you can spend this money that we didnt spend on something else on wall construction -- >> no. >> reporter: or are you saying you have the legal authority because nancy pelosi said today doesnt exist. >> i would never use nancy pelosi as my source on anything but i would use attorneys that...

Determination whether were going to sign that. the president has asked every one of his cabinet secretaries to look for funding that can be used to protect our borders and give the president the ability to fulfill his constitutional obligation to protect the american people by having a security border. so were looking at the other options. in the meantime well see what the senate does and let you know when we have an announcement. >> reporter: following up on that, there are other sources that c...

Money from to make sure the president can protect our border and protect american citizens. >> with the deficit ballooning to over a trillion dollars under this president, where are the additional monies on this wall going to come from and why is he asking the american taxpayer for them when he promised mexico was going to pay? >> were not asking taxpayers for that. were looking at existing funding through other agencies that we can draw on to do that immediately. the president has been clear th...

For $5 billion. democrats are saying not so fast. we learned the president has been making phone calls and asking every single agency to see if they have money that could be used to fund his border wall. lets go straight to our senior congressional correspondent manu raju. hes up on capitol hill. what do you know about this? >> reporter: what the white house came to congress with earlier today was a proposal to approve $1.6 billion in funding for border security that had already been agreed to b...