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I'm so glad they left it up to appropriaters to work out this deal, and let's go forward with it and make it work. >> we get it done. that's kind of the rap on capitol hill. the devil is always in the details, but we do know some numbers here. $1.375 billion for barrier funding. is that enough? >> it may be. what i've always been in favor of is evidence-based spending. for people who don't spend enough t a border fwraul are most of this land is privately owned. that means the government would have to buy this property and pay fair market value to put

President and others have access to without a national emergency. >> we're building the wall anyway. >> reporter: a democratic aide cautioned there is a ton of work to do. the president has nothing on his schedule today but set to meet new york governor andrew cuomo. >> thank you. democratic congresswoman lowery, the chairwoman of the house appropriations committee! i know you had a late night. we appreciate you being here to explain to us what happened. as joe just laid out, let me put u one more time what we know you came up with. $1.375 billion for 55 miles in the rio grand valley of, a new...

The government down in december. >> the deal is less than what the president turned down in december, before the 35-day shutdown, the longest in u.s. history. i will put numbers up. the deal the president turned down in december had $1.6 billion for 65 miles of a barrier. what the president wanted originally was $5.7 billion for 234 miles. now, the negotiators in the new compromise have come up with $1.375 billion for 55 miles. >> that looks like he shut down the government for no reason. as i understand the law, i actually do think the president could use his emergency powers to spend more th...

Grande valley. the question is exactly where this $1.375 billion will be spent along the border. we do expect some of that to happen in the rio grande valley. one of the things that we're also learning is that there's apare apparently some prohibition in this agreement that the money will not be spent on concrete walls. the president has walked back from calling for concrete walls saying well we can do a steel barrier instead. existing technologies to be used to build the wall and chris, immigrants were in i.c.e. custody, the detention beds. democrats wanted to limit that to maybe 35,000 or so...

I think this may be a good little window for us, because the number, 1.375, we know it's a hair cutoff of what he asked for in the budget. it's a huge hair off of the $5 billion, but this new information that you have, the idea of some of this being in the rio grande, is that true? >> yeah, we're learning about 55 miles or so will be in the rio grande valley. the question is exactly where this $1.375 billion will be spent along the border. we do expect some of that to happen in the rio grande valley. one of the things that we're also learning is that there's apparently some prohibition in this...