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Ago, i asked him about the move to support a national emergency. do you have concerned? he did not want to discuss that. he setaid, it's about keeping t government open. give the president some money for the border barriers. we have a signature on a funding bill. that's the most important thing right now. >> mamanu, thank you very much. joining us, will hurd. thank you for joining us. >> always a pleasure to be on with you. >> you represent a district with the most border with mexico, more than 800 miles. do you see the need for the president of the united states to declare a national emerge...

President will have the wisdom to sign the bill so the government doesn't shutdown, basically channeling what i have been hearing over the course of the last couple of days. that is really the outstanding issue. i'm told they are reviewing the proposal. as to what the proposal is we had a good sense of the top lines. $1.37 billion for border barriers. in total about 55 new miles of wall. republicans are saying they got a win in the number of detention beds bumping the number up from the current allocated level to about 45,000 beds. democrats saying they think they can move that down as the fis...

Unveiled to lawmakers and their scrambling to read it before later today. rob: $1.4 billion, for 65 miles of border barriers. is that enough for republicans to back this and avoid the shutdown at midnight? jody heiss joins us to explain. this bill, i don't think anyone will have time to read it. >> that is exactly correct. it came out when we were all in bed asleep, we are waking up in the morning getting going finding out we have 1200 pages worth of bills in front of us which we have not seen and democrats made a promise this type of thing would not happen, 72 hours before being called on to ...

Agency? >> first trump brings a swamp inside the executive branch and he wasn't serious about plugging any loopholes. may >> i'm going to ask you about the deal to avert a shutdown. is there any concern that the clause in this deal that says the border barriers, the 55 miles that are in the deal, may not be made of concrete is too much of a jab at president trump and he might actually balk? >> no. they say you don't want a concrete wall, you don't know what's going on on the other side. the president did recognize that was a foolish idea and started talking about his see-through slats. i think...

Payment. they're talking about how this is part of a broader concept. they're 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. you're seeing republicans trying to focus on the messaging to the president that, sure, maybe you didn't get everything you want, but you did get a lot to hel...