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Have a strong, credible press secretary and be surrounded by the people who can go on air and straighten these things out is a real weakness for him. the normal white house would have one person to go to the microphone and walk the press through this and the president doesn't have to get involved in every little detail. >> i remember mulvaney, before he was the acting chief of staff, he went out and showed pictures of what he said were new wall being built. that was just rehappenibbing exg fencing. he did have somebody go out. the person he sent out wasn't telling the truth either. >> yeah. i ...

Wanted all along. which is fine if you say you wanted a pony for christmas but you got a hobby horse instead. make believe is fine in you're a kid or a real estate developer in new york. it's different when you're a president and when you're twisting the facts to make that case. the whole range of issues surrounding the border and the showdown over it. i spoke earlier with a republican of florida. >> he is saying he should change the chant from build the wall to finish wall. how can you finish wall that hasn't been started yet? >> at the same time he's also said a lot, including a speech from ...

David axelrod's mike. if the president does declare national emergency during the state of the union, i would be a departure from the normal standard dull state of the unions we're used to, i guess. >> that's right. what he's clearly trying to do is tease us and build an audience for what could be a speech that -- he hasn't been successful at primetime speeches. the last one he gave at the oval office about the wall was a dud. i think this is important speech for him. i do think if he goes with a national emergency while his people who are bipartisan group is still trying to figure out if

New. he's been making them at rallies as well as official appearances now for nearly a year. two months ago he said he just awarded a contract for 115 miles of wall. he had them. today, he said he was using cash on hand to fund the wall. broadly speaking only congress can appropriate money. what the president seems to be doing now is re-imagining stuff that isn't really what he wanted as something that he's actually wanted all along. which is fine fine if you say y wanted a pony for christmas but you got a hobby horse ininstead. make believe is fine in you're a kid or a real estate developer i...

We have both sides sitting down to work this out. that's what i want to see continue. i want to see them come to an agreement before february 15th. >> just for a compromise, in terms of compromise you would support if democrats said, okay, there will be more fencing. there will be another ten miles in this area because it's a strategic area. this will help. there will be steel slats over here. we're not going call it a wall. is that, to you, is that fine as long as there's other things as well for border security? >> i think that's completely reasonable. that's in line with what we have done i...