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Could have a much better immigration system than we have. >> are you in favor, senator, on border wall? and whatever happened to president trumps promise that mexico would pay for it? >> i remain a fiscal conservative even on the wall, so im not excited about spending $20 billion on the wall. we are $700 billion in the hole. i heard from somebody the other day that said we build 2,700 miles of concrete barriers on inter states, all those noise control barriers, weve done that for $2 billion. so ...

The point is that the president seemed committed to do something until you know, republican leaders said no, no, youre not thinking this through all the way which again suggests some level of lack of preparation. >> these are official transcripts, historians study them. they feinstein said would you be agreeable to that meaning a clean initial, but they fixed it and corrected it. >> the other question is they talk about doing this in phases, first one is dreamers, how do you get to the wall and ...

Be what will happen with the presidents negotiations with congress 0 resolve this dreamer issue. as you saw last night, wolf, a couple of developments. one was the president tweeting that there has to be a wall as part of any deal to save those dreamers from deportation. that is obviously not the impression that many democrats came away with when had he left this ming yesterday at the white house. then of course, that federal court decision out in san francisco halting the administrations use of...

While ill vote for barriers but not voting for $40 billion for barriers. >> and you are not under the assumption that mexico eventually will pay for it, are you? >> i think the only way you could understand that to be true would be indirectly somehow that you could say that we spend a lot of money on illegal immigration in hour country. and i think thats the only way you could sort of emergency that mexico would pay for the wall is eliminating some of the costs we spend on people illegally comin...

Housing the very terrorists that we are fighting. >> reporter: national security council spokesman later saying the u.s. will continue to withhold $255 million of military aid from the country. pakistan responding by summoning the u.s. ambassador for a meeting and promising to respond shortly to let the world know the truth. all this as the administration confronts a number of legislative deadlines back here in the u.s. the first, a january 19th deadline to pass a spending bill and avert a gover...

A safe haven to terrorists. >> we have been paying pakistan billions and billions of dollars at the same time they are housing the very terrorists we are fighting. >> reporter: a spokesman saying the u.s. will continue to withhold $255 million worth of military aid from the country. pakistan responding by summoning the u.s. ambassador for a meeting and responding saying shortly we will let the world know the truth. the first deadline back here in the u.s., a january 13th deadline to avert a gove...

President on border wall funding in order to get a daca deal done? >> no. >> but then he says no go without it. where does that leave d.r.e.a.m.ers? >> this is a man -- listen, these kids, they were -- i have met so many of them. theyre just crying. theyre scared to death. these are human beings. when the president said that he was going to force the congress to act, he himself said, we have to do something for these kids. you know, we -- we need comprehensive immigration reform. we need to talk...

Meeting and promising to respond shortly to let the world know the truth. all this, as the administration confronts a number of legislative deadlines back here in the u.s. the first, a january 19th deadline to pass a spending bill and avert a government shutdown that could cost billions. one issue that will be front and center, protection for so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers brought to the country as children. the president insisting there will not be a deal on daca without funding for a wall, a nonstart...

Personal grievance sort of takes over everything. and try as he might to stay on the road that the staff clearly wants him to stay on, which is to talk about the things you were talking about, wolf, that he cant help himself but let this personal grievance get in the way of everything else. >> because yesterday, exactly 24 hour ago, we saw ta 55-minute televised portion of that meeting had he with democratic and republican members of the house and senate. we emerged and it was sort of unclear ho...

Unless the democrats agree to fund the wall into what does the wall actually mean? hes talking about border security. democrats were i think pleasantly surprised how the meeting went because they can sign onto the idea of more border security that falls short of a wall. we dont know where his final position is. what i thought was refreshing about trump yesterday was the way he breaks out of the norm of politics by saying weve got to get thing on dreamers. he contradicted himself about the whole ...