Declare a National Emergency. I havent done it yet. I may do it. If this doesnt work out, probably i will do it. I would almost say definitely. If we declare a National Emergency, we have a tremendous amount. Dana while on the ground in mcallen, texas, the president doubled down on his claim that mexico will be playing for the paying for the wall. Do you think theyre going to write a check . No. They are paying for the wall and a great trade deal. Billions and billions of dollars a year will be made now as opposed to nafta which was a disaster. Dana trump let a Border Patrol agent explained the need for a wall. Yesterday we are printed 133 people from countries other than Central America and mexico. That includes india, pakistan, china, romania, neck aragua. On and on. I know we keep talking about the family unit. That makes up about typically about 60, 70 . Weve seen a change without number is less then 50 of the apprehensions we make in south texas. We have 55 miles in the sector. We started the job in 2006. We need to finish the job. We need the technology and resources. We need the infrastructure in order to control this border. Dana greg, let me start with you. Border patrol agent, youve been recommending this. Let the Border Patrol agents speak. They know whats going on. Greg is not just the agents. Its also engineers. This kind of conversation requires a lot of nuance. Unfortunately when you inject politics into anything, the first thing that disappears is nuance and compromise. Politics is the Carbon Monoxide of thinking. Its odorless, colorless and when it enters the room, all ideas die. What they do, nuance and compromise drives me crazy. Its replaced with the prison of two ideas. Even though chuck agrees with donald trump and has agreed with him, he has to go to his respective prison. He has to go to that other persons health. He cant come out. Even though he agrees with donald trump. So everybody has to choose their side and they have to live in their own prisons and every day this goes on and creates more and more libertarians or people who are so disgusted by politics, they are forced to talk to their family instead which is good. The real winner at the border visit, ted cruzs beard. He went from ted cruz to Cruise Missile. I look at that and go im not messing with that guy. If he had grown that bearden 2015, he might be president or vice president. Jesse we dont need the wall. We just havent ted cruz standing there. In the jacket, just scare them away. Dana have you ever thought about growing a beard . I have tried. I grow beard but it stops around the chain. I have like martin mutton chop. Is that what they are called . Then i get food in it which is great. Jesse this is two weeks i havent shaved. I am a baby. Juan i can grow beard. I had a beard over vacation. I was worried about those terrorists crossing the border when i saw the guy standing behind the president and then i realized it was ted cruz trying to make up for not a border wall but the absence of a chin. Dana oh, juan. Juan what did you say, Cruise Missile . The five let me ask you about this. There was an article this morning that a couple democratic freshman who just won, democrats would be republicans in close races but they beat them fair and square. Now they are starting to say we are for Border Security and this is not necessarily good that we are going to be in a position of not being able to build any coalitions or get anything done if this is our first attempt out of the gate. Do you think there cracks in the democratic opposition to getting the money for the wall . Jesse i think the cracks are coming from the folks burning up the phone lines. Thats what politicians respond to, letters and phone calls. If you start calling and clogging of the phone lines, they think their constituents are angry and they want Border Security and they will respond. Thats the best part of democracy. Pick up the phone and tell these guys what to do. They work for the people, not the other way around. You can see the needle moving a little bit. I honestly think this is the first time trump has used the traditional president ial squeeze play on an issue. You do the oval office address. You do the photo off with the white hat. You do the social media, asked people to call their congressman. Maybe have a couple rallies or Something Like that. Take a trip to the border and then you threaten something in right now it could be working. With the democrats are trying to do is they are trying to prolong this so paychecks are paid, one week, that flicks new pain into the conversation. That may affect the dynamic a little bit. If they can time the paycheck miss a couple more weeks, even time it with the mueller report. Can you imagine that double whammy right there . Dana yeah, i dont i still think jesse you said he was wrapping up. Dana what, who was wrapping up . Jesse mueller. Dana i keep saying that. This is my theory. No one has told me this. I think the president , jedediah, tomorrow is going to usurp the democrats that he will declare this National Emergency and be able to say i end of the shutdown. Democrats wouldnt do it. I have the authority to do this National Emergency. There is controversy around it but that he will be able to say im ending the shutdown. I approved the need for the border fence. Jedidiah then he will get credit for ending the shutdown but you will have everyone coming after him. Oh, you acted unilaterally. You dont care about congress. You didnt do this the right way. I really think it would be a mistake for him to declare a National Emergency, even though i do think he has the authority to do it in this case. Dana dont you think hes marching his way up . Jedidiah absolutely. He keeps saying i am within my right to do it and if democrats dont help, going to have to do it. But to answer a question before, i think a lot of democrats are coming forward and saying to people, other democrats, this is onetenth of 1 of the budget we are talking about. Do you really want to be on record as not wanting to give 5. 6 billion for the border when we are asking for a 27 billion in foreign aid . This is not a good position to be in. Its a fraction. These are the very democrats who have been on record, as we said, coming forth in favor Border Security. When you look at the polling around the country, people care about this issue. They want the border secure. They may not want the wall because its tied with President Trump and now they associate it with him but they want Border Security. I think democrats have to be careful about this and frankly if theyre held responsible for the shutdown, i think its going to be a big dana democrats are not being held responsible. Juan the polls are pretty clear. The Washington Examiner today said it looks like the republicans have taken themselves hostage and they are trying to do things like you know you can get your tax refunds, food stamps delayed. They are trying to ameliorate the damage that comes from a 20 day shutdown. The difficulty for republicans, especially in states like colorado, cory gardner. Or even Lisa Murkowski in alaska, either with hispanic population significant or a lot of federal workers, they feel this is going to hurt them with voters. They are starting to hear from their constituents this isnt such a great deal. To go to a jedediah was talking about, i think the news of today was that he didnt declare the National Emergency. I think part of that is republicans, maybe i shouldnt say republicans. I should say conservatives. Remember how strongly conservatives criticized president s in the past for acting in a tyrannical or despotic way and saying i am going around congress. Never once in American History has an emergency been declared when the president could not get funding for an issue through the congress of the United States and went around the congress. Thats not in keeping with our constitution. I think a lot of conservatives have real problems with this. Jesse i thought the news of the day was that there were people from 140 Different Countries or 40 Different Countries besides Central America that were trying to cross the border that they apprehended. Its like a United Nations migration into the United States of america and the Border Patrol said pakistan, india, romania. People from romania, juan. They are coming. You cant call the president racist. Juan checked the airports if you really want to see people from all over which is the primary source of illegal immigration. Lets actually have a conversation. One last thing before we go greg the harmful effect. Juan no terrorist no terrorist has ever crossed seven border. Greg you sound like a rich californian, juan. Jedediah one and three women get sexually assaulted. [all speaking] juan heres the real issue. Politico is reported that republicans in the senate went to the president and said lets make a deal to reopen the government and then lets talk about upgrading Border Security. Democrats said okay. The president said jedediah youre never going to get the Border Security. How many Ronald Reagan mistakes do you have to make when you go to democrats and you say well do this. Okay, you cave in that you never get your end of the deal. Juan democrats care about Border Security. Greg they dont act like it. Dana we have so much more show to get to so ive got to tease. Greg it sounded like Something Else youre going to say. Dana i dont know what it was. I dont get the joke but i will get it in the commercial break. Reporters and their coverage of yesterdays meeting with democrats. We will hear that max. Great news, Liberty Mutual customizes uh uh i deliver the news around here. Sources say Liberty Mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. Over to you, logo. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Jesse President Trump has been on a terror against the media over the past 24 hours, labeling them the Opposition Party after the coverage of yesterdays meeting with democrats. It all started with a latenight winter storm. The Mainstream Media has never been more dishonest than it is now. Nbc and msnbc are going crazy. They report stories, purposely, the exact opposite of the facts. They are truly the Opposition Party working with the dems. May even be worse than fake news cnn, if that is possible then as hes leaving for the border, trump said this the media which i call the Opposition Party, a lot of the media, in coordination with the democrats, they are not talking about the democrats. You walked out on the democrats, are you going to bring them back . How can you get a deal if youre not talking . I didnt pound the table. I didnt raise my voice. That was a lie. I said if youre not going to give a strong borders, byebye and i left. I didnt rant and rave like you reported. I very calmly walked out of the room. I didnt smash the table. I should have but i didnt smash the table. Jesse while the media continues to try to trap trump in a lie, Cnns Jim Acosta botched this attempt to take down the president. Here are some of the steel slabs the president has been talking about right here. As you can see, yes, you can see through the slats to the other side of the u. S. Mexico border. As were rocking along here, were not seeing any kind of imminent danger. There are no migrants trying to rush toward the fence here in the mcallen, texas, area. As a matter of fact, there are some other businesses behind me along this highway. There is a gas station, burger king, and so on but no sign of the National Emergency that the president has been talking about. As a matter of fact, its pretty tranquil down here. Jesse pretty tranquil because walls work, jim. I think you just made the president s point for him. Greg that was paid for by the donald trump 2020 reelection campaign. He is in a spot at a wall. See, there is no problem here. [laughter] he may be dumber than we initially thought which says a lot or i think it could be a really long prank. Like andy kaufman, when andy kaufman pretended to be a character all the way until his death. I think hes playing this role and by the way, its amazing. The media has no credibility on this issue because just weeks ago, they called this a humanitarian crisis, right . There were people rushing the border, caravans, people dying. Suffering. When donald trump agrees and says its humanitarian crisis, they turn into this mocking tone, what crisis . There is no crisis here. Look at this wall. They are the biggest hypocrites. Its hard not to its hard to like them. Its easy to despise them. Jedediah the problem is how obama called it a humanitarian crisis. Trump tweeted out. The media is on record so many times as having defended him and defended Chuck Schumer and democrats that voted for Border Security that now they are panicked about how they conflicted can flip it to hate trump for espousing the very same things that the democrats did that the media back them up on. Juan i dont get it at all all. Jesse the media, all of them gathered down there to look at the photo op and you have the Border Patrol and they make an announcement that 90 of the traffic comes in this sector where there is no barrier. Only 6 of the traffic comes where there is a barrier. Since the media would take an Expert Opinion like this and maybe write it down in one of their news stories and show hate, the experts on the ground say walls work. Juan no, thats how you distort numbers. Jesse juan, i didnt distort the numbers. Juan heres the reality. Theres not a wall across most of the border. Jesse i understand that. Very specific sectors, it really slows down traffic. Juan let me say the media went down there. The president himself and i think a lot of the anger at the media came from the session with anchors that was supposed to be off the record. New york times reports the president said he didnt want to give this speech on tuesday night. He didnt want to go to the border, didnt see the purpose. And then the people behind him, Sarah Huckabee sanders, bill shine, kellyanne conway, these people think its a good idea. Apparently he didnt. Heres the reality, you have a situation now. Jesse they violated the off the record juan i thought it was the most transparent president ever. Have it on the record. Greg you certainly mind reading after you know what hes thinking. Juan all right, so then he retweets. He doesnt retweet the meeting. He retweets dan bongino, charlie kurtz. Hes in the conservative echo chamber. Jesse trump is active on social media. Thank you, juan. Dana, you have off the record things and then you go down there for this opportunity to showcase the border. The media is following along. Do you think its going to make any impact with the press whatsoever . Dana the thing about the off the record being violated, i dont think it was that egregious. I would not like it if that happened to me but i also would not be surprised if there werent other people calling Maggie Haberman and telling her that exact same thing. This is what happens. The white house will say thats not true and then three months later you found its exactly what happened. The fact that the media, how did we find out today that the democrats have cracked their coalition . I read it in a politico hes because reporters are out there doing their jobs. Its not all fake news. Some of the reporting is actually pretty good. The other thing that bothered me is the other day on the daily, the New York Times podcast, they turn this crisis thing, the headline was its a crisis of his own making. Because they said hed change the asylum rules and how you apply for asylum, thats why all these people flooded the border. If you go back, as jedediah was saying in the obama administration, that was a humanitarian crisis. They didnt say that was obamas own making. Its a frustrating thing because there is clearly a bias they are or unwillingness to look back into a fair comparison. Jedediah also the mexican drug cartels and the Drug Trafficking and whats going on in mexico is not part thats not trumps fault. He needs to broaden the discussion. People dont like the term wall. He needs to talk about barriers but he also needs to talk about going after these cartels. He needs to talk about problems he has with the state department that want diplomacy all the time and doesnt prioritize going after cartels. He needs to talk about the humanitarian crisis that democrats have been making that case for years and the media backed them up. That needs to be the priority, not just the fence. Jesse all right, just how far the left is the Democrat Party going . We will examine some of their most outrageous proposals up next. Fact is, every Insurance Company hopes you drive safely. But allstate helps you. With drivewise. Feedback that helps you drive safer. 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