during prime time the speaker of the house of representatives nancy pelosi said the president was appealing to fear and misleading the public who want to start with the facts the fact is on the very first day of this congress house democrats passed senate republican legislation to reopen government and find smart effective border security solutions that the president has been jacking with bipartisan bills which would reopen the government over his obsession with work forcing american taxpayers to waste billions of dollars on expensive an ineffective wall a wall he always promised mexico would pay for let's get more now at g.w. washington correspondent stephan simmons stuff and the president is hoping his primetime appeal will build public support for his border plan how likely is that. unlikely i would say if you are referring to the entire public of the united states