Security Versus Barrier News Today

>> in the last week youve seen the president have two high profile border security luncheons. why arent democrats coming over here? should you have brought some with you? >> well, its pretty hard to get here from hawaii. but the phones do work. so all i can say is that the democrats have said theyre not going to give him a dime for border wall. the house will change next week. theyre going to send over a bill from the house that wont have any money for a physical barrier, a wall, a fence, slats....

For border security. bha we what were talking about is a physical barrier that makes sense. in the past every democrat has voted for these physical barriers. it cant be just because trump wants it, we no longer agree with it. theres nothing immoral about a physical barrier along the border in places that make sense. so there will never be a deal at the end of this year or the beginning of next that doesnt have money for the physical barriers that we all have in the past agreed we need. the presi...

Forced to take unpaid leave, that would be the day they miss their first paycheck, except for members of the u.s. coast guard. because you have the coast guard announcing they worked out a deal with the trump administration to get those folks paid. president trump is actually tweeting about it. he says great work by my administration over the holidays to save coast guard pay during this what he calls a #schumershutdown. no thanks to the democrats who left town and are not concerned about the saf...

What are they really fighting for? when i hear lindsey graham talk about slash, slash, slash, what are we actually going to be getting and i dont think thats been very clear. i think that say messaging problem coming from the communications department within the white house because they are not clear on what exactly they want. this whole build a wall is a complain slogan thats not really reality. im not sure they need to keep calling this a wall. i think they need to be honest with the american ...

The clalendar, i think whats going to happen come thursday is youre going to have house speaker nancy pelosi bring some legislation to the floor that would fund the government minus the department of homeland security and then president trump and nancy pelosi will have to hash this one out. if people stop paying attention to this shutdown debate last saturday, they wouldnt be missing much because the fundamentals of the debate, of the argument, have not really changed much since then, except for...

The democrats negotiating position starts with when mexico pays for the whaall, well sign budget. thats not going to happen. the president is asking the american taxpayer to pay for a wall he said mexico would pay for thp for. we dont know how much wall. you have to get into the issues of imneminent domain. you dont just go and build the wall. theres less than 700 miles of wall in a nearly 2,000 mile border. theres about 1,200 miles of where theres no physical barrier. so just to go out and say ...