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Into the country illicitly, and how do you deal with that and there are definitely immigration problems and the question is, is the president doing something to make it worse or something to make it better and thats the -- thats the debate thats going on. >> just that shes there, and shes fallen out of favor with the president. now shes on his side making the case that it is a true national emergency in the context of this, we know that the senate within days is going to join the house and sayin...

Welcome back to "kasie dc." with the clock ticking, president trump said the negotiations are a waste of time, saying he most likely will declare a national emergency for funding for a border wall. meanwhile, mitch mcconnell personally warned the president and concerns that that could force them to pass a resolution expressing disapproval. joining me now, congressman tom coyle from oklaho cole. thank you for being here. >> glad to be in here. >> what is your response to this? >> its not, i have ...

Funding for a border wall. meanwhile, mitch mcconnell personally warned the president and concerns that that could force them to pass a resolution expressing disapproval. joining me now, congressman tom cole. thank you for being here. >> glad to be in here. >> what is your response to this? >> its not, i have a lot of confidence between senator shelby and a lot of confidence in representative lloyd, chairman of the house appropriations committee and kay granger. let them run the negotiation. num...

Maggie. >> no. and he said some version whaef said befo of what he has said before, i was running for president, why would i shut out any option? hes right there is nothing legally problematic with tipping to run yocontinuing to run your business as youre running for president, but appearance going to raise questions when youre dealing with a foreign entity and nation thats been hostile to the u.s. if you are dhog oin this in the middle of an election, especially if it comes out that country tri...

The street because you cant pay the rent, theres no question which is more important. lets get people back to work. >> david, let me read something about president trumps embattled state of the union speech. this is something he told peter baker of the "new york times." excuse me, this is peter baker of the "new york times." didnt talk to the president for this. the address is being written to unveil a variety of ppolicies, just discussing the border dispute, which is why it is important to pres...

For some time to shift the dynamics so the american public, so that voters begin to see the shutdown as a democratic created problem. thats part of what the president is trying to do here, really not about changing the democratic votes but the way americans perceive it. he has been hopeful there are some democrats in some districts who will feel enough of a heat for democrats to force some kind of offer, initial negotiating offer they will somehow turn on nancy pelosi and try to press for that. ...

White house agreed on it. >> but at one time you guys did, right? isnt that why you did a unanimous vote for the bill? >> it wasnt unanimous. ive heard that statement. it was a voice vote, but there wasnt a roll call that was taken. there was a lot of loud noes. i was one of those knonoes. i didnt know whether the white house would agree to it. i just thought we could do our full seven resolution bills. not try to punt this into february. the whole focus was lets deal with this later. i thought ...

Country. >> 86% of heroin brought into the u.s. came from mexico. talk to us about that. >> thats exactly right. the presidents instincts on this are very very good. illustrative is 9/11. after that we shut down the border. and when we shut down the border drugs didnt come in. emergency room admissions were down, the price of drugs went up which means if you shut down the border, close it off, if you build a wall, it can have a real and profound difference. its no the its its not the on. the pre...