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Interview. this is clearly a full-court press by the administration to get as many republican senators later today to vote against the. pete: all the way. they are trying to make that zero sum vote. if you vote against us, forget about the precedence argument or idiosyncrasies. either you are with the president on border security. you want that wall, period, or you are voting against it the point to make good luck going back to your district or state as a republican senator in this trump era. st...

Should be used for something else. he says the $7 billion in the pentagon budget for the wall should go to defense. where do your colleagues stand on this issue? >> look, so just to be clear on the numbers, because i think there is a lot of misreporting out there. $3.6 billion is backfilling what were using now. the rest -- this $5 billion number we just had the shutdown fight over is not a made-up number. not just something coming from the white house. thats from customs and border patrol. the ...

Nancy pelosi sitting beside the president as he delivers his state of the union address. it will be a big topic. >> the fact that she wants to continue this stalemate to try to not fund border security is in furtherance of her goal. >> sandra: the president over the weekend saying that he wants to watch iran for this reason. >> president trump: i want to be able to watch iran. i want to watch. we have an unbelievable and expensive military base built in iraq. it is perfectly situated for looking...

What do we need to know this morning? >> what you need to know is that there is not going to be a whole lot that the military can do but theyll be there for support. people will make all these thousands of asylum claims. if they are able to cross the border, that means that before too long they are going to be released back into the interior of the united states. and so this is a real problem for us. it is a problem because we have not built the wall, we havent added border security. were under ...

Work out the differences that is up to the conference committee in the purest form it is an open wide ranging debate between the 2010 conference committee dodd/frank reform legislation in a conference committee is nothing more than a glorified press conference like on border security. everything else is behind closed doors. >> of think of the conference committee with the house and the senate with the digital frontier drones and fencing and put it into a blender. hopefully when they mix it toget...

>> jon: im jon scott. president trump building some excitement ahead of the big speech teasing a big reveal or maybe more than one but keeping details under wraps. >> president trump: were looking at a national emergency. i dont think anything is going to happen. i think the democrats dont want border security. listen closely to the state of the union. youll find it very exciting. >> sandra: rich edson is live at the white house. its a big setup. >> good morning. senior administration official e...

Its political. >> first things first. a state of the union coming up with a looming government shutdown. well watch and have camping for you. back to you. >> sandra: thank you. >> jon: as kevin just reported one major theme of president trumps state of the union address tomorrow building the wall. the president sitting down for an interview which aired last night on what it is like negotiating with speaker nancy pelosi on border security. >> president trump: i think that she was very rigid, whic...

Work out the differences that is up to the conference committee in the purest form it is an open wide ranging debate between the 2010 conference committee dodd/frank reform legislation in a conference committee is nothing more than a glorified press conference like on border security. everything else is behind closed doors. >> of think of the conference committee with the house and the senate with the digital frontier drones and fencing and put it into a blender. hopefully when they mix it toget...

>> president trump: the only way they can win. they cant win the election, is to bring out the artificial way of impeachment. >> jon: is there something to that and will democrats push the issue? >> sandra: plus the pentagon taking action as the latest migrant caravan can closes in on the texas border. arizona congressman andy biggs is standing by and will join us live on this issue just ahead. >> president trump: we catch them because were doing a great job. but if we had proper border security...

>> the real point here is will donald trump use the staift union to unite the country or his base. if he focuses on immigration it is more likely his base. the big opportunity he has frankly if he will focus on immigration is two things. step up and say first of all im going to fund the rest of this year to keep the government open. that avoids the shutdown and everyone would see it as a goodwill gesture. the second announcement should be the working group. i will work together with them. lets p...