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For it. i mean, he owns this. he's on video saying, you know, such. and it's hard to see how -- i hate the phrase america first, anyway, frankly. but it's hard to see how this is putting america first when you have american workers being held hostage over $5 billion border security wall that is not necessary, that is only a gift to a base based on appealing -- appealing to our worst angels. the president going on camera talking about, you know, how we don't want them in this country, this demonization and dehumanization of immigrants that he's engaged in from the beginning. i think that's what...

Could reconcile those two bills? do you think there will be enough democrats in the senate that maybe they cut a couple billion dollars after it and the president says that's good enough? >> they were there a few weeks ago. they had some restrictions placed on different things. they were there a few years ago. certainly a few years ago they were. a number voted to support a border security wall. you want to deal with the drug and human trafficking and gang problem build the border security wall and do what we said. hopefully they'll figure it out and we can get it done or as the president said...

Congress, why now? like two years later? >> you are right, we should have done it earlier, we should have done it on march with the big spending bill, we told the american people we would. then december, didn't do it, then we said we we will do it r summer 21st, we did it tonight in the house. just a few minutes ago, it passed, even though last week in the oval office, nancy pelosi said the house can't get people to past a border security wall, funding for a border security wall, we just did a few minutes ago, 217 votes. think the democrats have 185. we passed it in the house, that is step one...

Ask why it didn't happen.or you are absolutely right, it should have happened, you would have preferred for it to happen earlier. >> of course, right. >> tucker: but it didn't, but that means people prevented it. speaker ryan was one of them. who else? so the rest of us can keep score. >> to do something that really counts and has lasting value and meaning is never easy. so anything worth doing is always difficult, but congress always has a way of trying to take the least resistant route and do the easyut thing. that is why it happened, i think. >> tucker: i know you were for it, but the tax b...

Now here we have a simple $5 billion for a border security wall that we know works, that is common sense, and they won't support this. again it comes back they're more focused on stopping the president than helping the country. let's help the country. we're willing to work with them. let's come together and build a border security wall and fulfill a fundamental promise we made to the american people that we know will help the situation on our southern border. >> congressman jim jordan. thanks for spending time with us this morning. >> julie: a journalist who made up stories now giving back his...