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But is the democratic party facing its own division where part of the party is just resist, resist, resist whatever the president comes up with? >> yeah. i think we were starting to see fissures and, in fact, you saw even the house majority leader, steny hoyer, saying physical barriers should be part of the solution. you had committee chairmen on the democrat side saying give the president money for the wall. i think this growing drum beat got pelosi nervous, but at the same time, shes going to ...

Thats what the members of this conference committee will be trying to do, to get comprehensive border security on the southern board and, where appropriate, more technology, more personnel and more physical barrier, meaning wall. maria: can you share with us the priorities, what would it cost, what is a practical number? the presidents asking for $5.7 billion. the democrats will push back. what do you think is realistic in terms of the next three weeks of negotiation? >> well, i can give you a n...

Him, and im sure, checking with the leaders of the senate and house along the way, but it wont be this highly publicized where the president says wall, and nancy comes occupant of her -- out of her office and says no wall. thats not the way you get a result. maria: you said lets get it into congress hands, that something can be done about it. to you feel you and your colleagues will have the power to do that? because we know that many of the incoming democrat freshmen congressmen if, actually, a...

Wide open areas that if illegals come in, you can actually apprehend them easily because its so wide open. but then there are other areas like the wall weve been looking at in nancy pelosis state separating tijuana from san diego where you have a very dense population, three million people on one side of the wall in tijuana, another three million on the other side of the wall in san diego. so what is your thoughts in terms of how much is needed for actual barrier on the southern border? and will...

Forward a solution on border security, on immigration reform, and lets go through the proper channels of the congress that are built and intended to have this exact conversation. but lets not do it in the context of a shutdown that harms the american people, that harms our economy and risks the pocketbooks of every american. maria: right. what im trying to better understand is really the makeup of the new congress because, of course, we know that theres a pocket of democrats who just want the pr...

There and she voted for and knows its in her own state, and yet she says any more wall is immoral. >> yeah. thats -- we need to get it out of the speakers hands and the public debate and into the hands of members of congress who have for 20 years known that a comprehensive border security plan includes more personnel, more technology and more physical barrier. president trumps asking for about 234 more miles of physical barrier as part of a comprehensive plan that would not build a wall from shi...

City, and i want to do more to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the country. so i think theres a lot of common ground, and i think the way to approach this and the way i would if i was mayor is to say, you know, theres a conversation, a debate about wall or no wall. lets step back from that conversation where its divisive, and lets talk about what we have in common. lets find that thread of commonality amongst republicans and democrats. i think the thread of commonality is we all want to prot...

Many of your colleagues just want to resist this president. is that what nancy pelosi is doing, given the fact that we know in the past she has voted for border fencing, barriers like the one in her own state we just looked at? >> thats why we need to get it into the hands of members of congress who for 20 years have been saying we need more physical barrier, we need more technology, we need more custom agents, we need more border agents. we can do that just as we did for president obama, clinto...

A border wall as the president had demanded. louisiana republican congressman steve scalise joins me now, and it is a pleasure to see you. thanks so much for joining us. >> good morning, maria, always great to be back with you. maria: do you expect to have border wall funding in the next the three weeks before the next deadline? >> i sure hope its going to be part of a final agreement and, you know, while president trump said were going to give you another three weeks, kind of calling the democr...

Theres some other things id like to see. you put the two things together, and you get a result. thats what we did with presidents obama, clinton, bush and bush, thats what we should do with president trump. maria: let me ask you this, lets say in the next three weeks nancy pelosi digs in and says absolutely no more than one dollar for any wall or fence, will the government close down again? >> the government should never close down -- maria: so what are you going to do? >> well, i always vote to...