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On border security and the wall he was going to have to use the appropriations process, but e he would make sure that that promise would be kept as far as the payment of it. >> a real quick tofollow up. if border cross rgs down, is the wall even necessary? >> absolutely. the wall does several things. >> the border crossings be down saying we're going to have drugs flowing in it we don't have the wall. >> just because you have a couple good months in a year, you want to make sure you take long-term steps. so the president is going to fulfill. i think if you're coming in from our southern border...

House doesn't want a government shutdown. they understand they would take the brunt of the blame for that. so i think what you're hearing here is a possible path out they are trying to find for things. >> i want to hear from it you. let me play the exchange with our own correspondent in the room jim acosta with sean spicer on this. >> why has there been discussion over paying for the wall? isn't mexico supposed to pay for the wall? >> the president has made clear that initial ly we needed to ge the funding going. there would be several mechanisms to make sure that happens. that funding piece w...

It's a great question. mexico is supposed to pay for it. it is a talking point from the white house about border crossings being down. what did you make of his answer? >> as you know, i covered a great number of those trump campaign rallies. a few of those moments were burned on my brain. the moment that might be burned the most ob my brain is that mexico is going to pay for the wall on the border. and as you heard from sean spicer during the briefing, yes, the president is going to insist. his administration is going to insist at some point mexico is going to pay for the l wall, but for the t...

Every day there's a thousand things being thrown at the wall. that doesn't mean they are accomplishing things. it's important to distinguish the two. >> it sounds like the headline for your next piece. thank you as always. in the meantime, we're talking with the president's predecessor making his first public remarks since leaving office. hear what former president obama said just a little while ago there in chicago and how he's walking his fine line of criticizing trump or not. a grave warning from the head of homeland security. he says president trump will be doling with north korean missi...

They have great confidence that's not going to shut down. at the end of the day thrks administration is starting to sound like it's going to take one on the chin here and perhaps not get that border wall funding in exchange for not letting this government shut down on the 1 100th day in office tr this president, which would be a lot of egg on his face as he. wraps up these 100 days. >> on the egg note, shelby, e let me follow up with you. >> it's true. a little bit of both. the trump administration loves the art of the deal. that's how donald trump conducts his madministration. people are sayi...