wall and who is going to pay for it? mexico and he s going to get push back from it and understandably so. more than anything, this is something that he wants to get done, not just because it s something he campaigned on but he believes it s something for our national security and it s a big part of his immigration component that he ran and won on. this is most definitely not the way to get a wall built. right? this is not the way to get money appropriated for the wall if he wants to fulfill this promise. it s a way to shift blame on to somebody else but to fellow republicans which i think is quite a mystifying strategy. i think that most americans, outside of donald trump s base who he spoke to in arizona, understand that the wall s not going to be built and if the wall is going to be built, then it s coming out of our pockets, not mexico. the american public is smarter than that. the question of whether it s a smarter strategy is the wrong question. i think what results has this
that s not what he says. he says shut the government down. build a wall. and i disagree with him. as my good friend used to say if you agree with me 60 percent don t vote for me. 9 90% see a psychiatrist. i ve been there for two and a half years. congress goes at a slow pace. than i would like to see it go. i think there s a lot of things we d like to get dup. i think he wants to govern. is what if he puts the flag at sand and says this wall s getting done and i ll shut the government down. the i know he can t. i know it s an operation of congress. this is what the president is saying. what happens? congress, again, as you just said, congress will determine what happens. we re going to do the budget. present his budget over to congress. but that s just a list of his priorities. i sat with a colleague of mine who s been there for 13 terms, 26 years.
100% they ll pay, steve. 100%. do you know what we lose on mexico a year? 45 billion in trade. we have an imbalance with mexico. 45 billion. the wall s going to cost they said it was going to cost 12. i can build it for 6 and it will be bigger, better and stronger. donald trump and steve bannon have long had a cozy relationship. that was bannon interviewing trump on his first breitbart news daily radio show back in 2015. less than a year later trump made bannon his campaign ceo and then brought him into the white house as his chief strategist. despite his ties to the white nationalist ideology calling itself the, quote, alt-right. bannon once even bragged that his media outlet was, quote, the platform for the alt-right. but bannon is far from the only member of the trump administration with ties to anti-immigrant, anti-multicultural, anti-muslim, and pro white nationalist ideology. there are in fact a disturbing number of top trump advisers who somehow just happen to keep mimicki
they re excited about the great changes they ve even since he s taken office. they re really supporting him and behind him. right after your dad became the president, i went to washington, i interviewed paul ryan. paul ryan gave me a whole list of things that are going to be accomplished, done even with a margin built in, heath care repeal and replace, which they did it in the house to their credit. two budgets are going to be passed. the wall s going to be funded, everything. what s happening? it s all going to get done. 200 days, right? it s pretty amazing. time flies in certain ways this has been fun, eric? look at what he s done now. look where the markets are. the u.s. economy has gained $4 trillion a million new jobs. in the first lowest number of people on food stamps in seven years. keystone pipeline. highest consumer confidence in generations.
pena nieto, you told us this about promising to build the wall. i don t think anyone thought we were seriously pay for that wall even though we all believe the wall s a metaphor for border security. nobody believed mexico would pay. the wall was a metaphor. do you believe the crowds at president trump s rallies believed when 93 were shouting build that wall, they were supporting a metaphor, instead of a traditional brick and mortar, cement wall? well, there s an element in the border, where the wall brick and mortar wall is appropriate. there are also elements that need to be brought to bear on policing the border like technology. what i said during the campaign, and those very people you re talking about i think understood, that we need to combine a wall with technology and we need to do everything we can do to secure the border. there are areas the rio grande,