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February 8th when nancy pelosi is speaker -- i'm supposed to believe that we are then going to build the border security wall and keep our promise in the 2016 campaign? no way. >> mr. president we will back you up if you veto this bill, we will be there and more importantly the american people will be there, they will be there to support you. >> joining us now is the republican congressman from texas, william herd. thank you for being here. >> always a pleasure to be on. >> what do you think of what your fellow republican congressmen meadows and jordan say in terms of their warning to the pres...

Then he put in all caps, usa wins. the president had signaled he was prepared to sign this clean cr to keep the government open through the new year. in fact, he sent vice president mike pence up here to capitol hill yesterday to tell senate republicans that he would sign that legislation. but then some conservatives on the house side started warning the president that that was a bad idea. take a listen to what some of them had to say yesterday. >> you've got to be kidding me. really? i mean, february 8th when nancy pelosi is speaker, do we really -- i'm supposed to believe, we're supposed to ...

Then he can kind of say maybe democrats, they just wouldn't give it to me, but he's still going have to deal with the fact why don't you have a wall after two years of republicans controlling the house, the senate and you in the white house? >> so, you know, this reminds me of obama with closing gitmo. he wanted to do it. he truly wanted to do it. he made a promise, and then he couldn't do it because congress wouldn't let him. >> i don't disagree. that's a spot-on analysis. the president wants to do it. we saw him sit in the oval office with schumer and pelosi and said i'll take the mantle of ...

Might still serve jail time and there's nothing biased about that. we need to stop bringing down our legitimate institutions like the judiciary. >> laura: do you think judges are beyond criticism? we shouldn't criticize a judge? i see what we are seeing as a subversion of the american people's will. >> it's not the judges who are activists. it's activists going to the judges because as you point out, congress hasn't done its job. >> laura: jim jordan, it's true congress hasn't done its job on this particular issue. i think not funding the wall is going to go down as one of the worst, worse thi...

Released a five part mini-series on his life in congress. did you see that? god bless him. he's a nice person.es it was embarrassing. it was an embarrassing thing he did. >> fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me. for the american people four times, shame on congress. that's what we've done. four times we promised them we would build the wall and put it on the spending bill and now we're saying no. pelosi is going to be speaker, it will never happen. >> laura: the republicans also can inil good conscience say the democrats had the chance to work with the president on this and r...