Closed doors this morning trying to sell the plan to their own parties. One thing is certain, that it looks like there is still work to be done when it comes to the president. We want to see what the final piece of legislation looks like. Its hard to say whether the president is going to sign it until we know everything thats in it. The president isnt fully happy with everything thats in the legislation, but there are some positive pieces of it. One way or the other and one thing you can be sure of is at the end of the day the president is going to build the wall. And i likely dont need to remind you at this point, but the clock is running out. Washington has until friday to get something passed and the president to sign it. With basically everyone saying they think they can avoid a shutdown this time, is anyone ready to say this is going to be an easy race to the finish . Dana bash and Phil Mattingly standing by. Your heard what Sarah Sanders said there just a short time ago. What are your sources telling you, though . That the president is telling people that he does intend to sign this bill. Thats according to two people who have spoken to the president. They are also saying that the president is making clear privately what we just heard from Sarah Sanders. Hes not happen, but he also understands now from experience the perils of a Government Shutdown. We are up against it and if and when this bill comes to his desk, he is going to have to sign it. That is what he is saying, at least has been over the past 24 hours privately to people hes talking to. Thats what im told. But hes also going to make clear when he does it that hes going to use other executive powers to try to find more money to keep building that wall. So, phil, what does Congress Need to do to get at least through this first step to get the bill passed by friday . Reporter finish writing it would be a good start. Obviously reaching the deal is an important part of the process, but putting it to paper is not an easy part. Its an arduous process. This is a seven funding bill package, more than a thousand pages, a lot of in the weeds details to draft. Im hold at this moment the process is moving along quicker than they thought it would be at this point. Behind closed doors youve seen republicans yesterday, democrats in the house today, meet with their members, trying to express optimism for the deal why people should get behind it. Im told House Democrats were generally positive about the agreement. As with all compromises, i say to people support the bill for what is in it, dont judge it for what is not in it. You cant pass it until its ready. Reporter the expectation is the house will move first, likely tomorrow night, the senate will follow in short order. The expectation is they will be able to pass it probably by a pretty decent margin. First things first, got to actually finish writing the bill. Yeah. I think so. That sounds so genius and so easy and so not at the same time. Lets say this easy hard stuff happens and the president does sign the bill. Can you lay out what the next steps are in terms of more funding for the wall . He has been presented and has even talked about this pluublic a whole list of option where is he can use his executive power to get more money. Not the kind of money hes asking for. Hes asking for 5. 7 billion. Even with the executive pours he has, the pots of money wont get him up to that number after he signs his bill. There are pots of money. The biggest, 3. 6 billion is part of a pretty big deal if he did, which is declaring a National Emergency. We have been talking about the fact that republicans in Congress Starting with the leader in the senate, Mitch Mcconnell has been saying dont do that because if a democratic president did that it would be considered by far an overreach of executive powers. But the other things on that screen smaller pots coming from the department of Homeland Security, department of defense, those are areas where the president can use executive authority to take that money and put it toward the continuing of the building of the wall in addition to the money hes going to get for Border Security broadly in this bill presuming the thousand or so pages are put into legislative text and pass the house and the senate. Weve seen this before. Can i just throw this other thing out there . When you have these giant bills, there sometimes are things in these bills that nobody anticipates that cause some last minute problems. Yes. So you never know. Phil, what are your hearing about what republicans are doing behind the scenes to try to get the president to a place of yes with this deal . Reporter i think what dana laid out has actually been an important pitch for republicans. Im told at this moment republicans still have not gotten an explicit assurance the president will sign this bale. I had several republican aides send me danas story this morning that the president was going to sign it with enthusiasm. But you have Senate Republicans trying to stress this is a multistep process. Theyre using the word down payment. Theyre talking about how this is part of a broader concept. Theyre focusing on the idea that this is more than just a border barrier money bill, this is a broader Homeland Security bill. When you put it all together on Border Security, technology and infrastructure, the border barriers as well, personnel, it comes out to about 23 billion. After the call with senator shelby, President Trump tweeted that 23 billion number out. Youre seeing republicans trying to focus on the messaging to the president that, sure, maybe you didnt get everything you want, but you did get a lot to help on the issue that you think is most prominent to your future and your campaign. There are a couple of minor issues still being worked out right now. One in particular violence against women act. Theres a little bit of a tiff under federal contractor back pay. Aides in both parties tell me that wont sink the deal but those outstanding smaller issues are really kind of front and center right now. Then you get to read a thousand pages and tell us what happens in it when it drops. It sounds so easy. No, not even close. G i do want to ask you, congressman, what you are hearing. Dana and phil have their ear to the ground always. What are you hearing . Is everything moving in the direction of passage or do you see snags . I think dana and phil are right on. A big rumor ive heard in our own caucus this morning very positive. There are at the moment no poison pills were aware of, although they could slip in. I think were on path to get this thing to the president by friday, well before the deadline when a shutdown would occur. Will something trip it up . Well, the most important thing is a veto by the president. I dont think thats going to happen. This might go without saying, but youre definitely going to support it even though you havent seen a full legislative tax yet . If theres a poison pill in there, that would be a very deadly poison pill for me to take part in shutting down the government. This is not the end of the process. This is actually last years process. Next years process is underway now and that is the writing of the next appropriation bill and many of these issues will be back on top of the agenda. The White House Press secretary said this morning that right now theyre not committing to whether the president will sign onto this plan or not. That might just be a statement of reality. You dont know what the president is going to do until he does it. Does that make it harder for republicans to sign on . I dont think so. There is no appetite and ive talked to democrats and republicans both houses theres no appetite for a shutdown. We want to keep the government operating. Democrats and republicans alike from the most conservative to the most pregnantive. All of the reporting is that the president is likely not going to go the route of declaring a National Emergency to get more money with the wall. Right. With that said, is your bill necessary . It is. The legislation we have would repeal the 1986 provision that was written during the height of the Nuclear Standoff during the Reagan Administration to give the president the power to move public works money that the army corps of engineers has to deal with a nuclear attack. Were not there today and god help us if we ever get back to that situation. So this has never been used. Certainly there is no justification for the president to you it today. Should we come to the need for public works projects, walls or others, we have a way of doing it. Its called the constitution. Come to the congress. Go through the appropriation process, make a determine fwh s whether its appropriate and useful to spend money on that. Right now theres 37 billion the president could conceivably take out of communities around the nation, money that is desperately needed for economic development, for the waterways, for the ports and even more important for flood protection in houston and california and puerto rico and other places. We dont want him to do that and i know for a fact that states and local communities are gearing up to file a lawsuit that the president is using a sham emergency to override the Constitutional Authority of congress to appropriate money. Guaranteed lawsuit, guaranteed that some court is going to say, yep, youre right, were going to stop the president. That is if he would go the route of declaring an emergency declaration. Yes. Theres not route they could go which is by finding pots of money by combing through the law, finding pots of money to put toward the wall. Even if your big was taken up and passed and signed by the president , fellow democrats still think the president has this way of going around congress to get money. Let me play you what the House Budget Committee chairman told me just yesterday. Its my understanding that there are certain pockets of money that the administration can reprogram. Some of it they just have to notify congress theyre doing. Other pockets they have to actually request permission from congress. So i think theyll take the steps of least resistance first, find the money they might have where they only have to notify us or maybe dont even have to. Yarmouth is correct on the technical details. However, theres this thing called we dont vacate the field. If the president goes over and overrides the appropriation process by moving significant amounts of money from one program to another, there is a thing called well see you tomorrow, mr. President. Youre going to have to come back here for all of your programs for everything. So the president needs to be careful about that. Hes already learned what happens when you try to override the authority of congress. That was a 35day shutdown. I would hope he doesnt want that again. In addition to that, some of those authorities and one that im particularly concerned about because i spent the last eight years working on the u. S. Coast guard. The u. S. Coast guard interdicts ten times the amount of drug that is the Border Patrol does on the mexican border. There is a possibility of about a billion dollars that weve appropriated to rebuild coast guard cities which is essential to protect the coast guard of the United States. The coast guard provides a wall 1500 miles at sea. The president could face quite a threat to other things he thinks are important. That sounds like a threat. Take it how you want. Were interested in making sure that those programs, whatever they may be, many of those important to individual communities as we talked about with the civil works project of the army corps of engineers, communities that need to be protected from floods, from hurricanes, tornados and the economy, the commerce of the rivers. All of those things are important to us. We represent these communities and were not going to stand by as the president rips off programs those communities desperately need to protect the citizens whose lives may be endangered. Theres no way you could prevent him on the front end of doing it, but youre saying youve got to come to us for money later and thats where hell pay a price . Absolutely hell pay a price. In some cases, he has to go and get prior permission. Other cases he has to report back. In both cases he does not have Constitutional Authority to appropriate money. The congress of the United States, the house and the senate are the only branch of government of the three that has the power to say we will spend money on this or that and we will raise taxes to pay for it. Thats our responsibility, the president s responsibility is to carry out those appropriations and laws. Thank you for coming in. My pleasure. Thank you. Coming up for us, what i say the Top Republican in the senate calling for a vote on the democrats Green New Deal . It has less to do with Climate Change and everything to do with 2020. Plus, the Top Republican on the Senate IntelligenceCommittee Says hes had it with Donald Trumps former attorney. This is Dell Cinema Technology with cinemastream for less buffering, cinemasound for brilliant clarity, and cinemacolor for ultra vivid color. Shop the biggest president s day ever at dell. Com. At dell. Com. I need great without the wait. 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I dont see it as something that we can get rid of all these industries or do this in a few years. That doesnt