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Forward would allow that money to be bonded forward, so we know we get three to 5 billion a year in it, allow it to be bonded, so that that way, you could obligate future receipts for current construction and you could have the funding you need now based upon future receipts. neil: the president has also raised the possibility that money extracted from the mexican trade deal even though it hasn't been ratified yet could be used to pay for this. do you know how that would happen? >> i think that would take congressional action. i think we have to concede that ms. pelosi for apparently political...

Now, they did condemn his remarks, but they didn't go beyond that and neither, for that matter, did senator scott if you think about it, but what should they do? censure him or-- . >> no, you can't censor him. you cannot dispute the will of the american voters that elected him, but i want to encourage them to find a candidate and it looks like there's a primary challenge. don't support the guy, but, neil, to be honest with you, the damage has already been done. it's the republican party now that suddenly woke up. i mean, the rest of the country and people in the black community have already kn...

Of the president, then candidate trump, who talking about mexico paying for the wall and obviously, he's talking about changing our trade agreements and boosting the economy. neil: i don't think that was obvious. >> it wasn't obvious to me. neil: he never said i'm going to extract this from the trade deal >> but we all knew that was the platform and they were robbing us, remember all of the rhetoric neil: pay for it means pay for it whether it means i write you a check i say i'm going to give you money i'll give you a debit card. be that as it may, scott i just wonder, the only reason i raise ...

Neil: all right. senator cassidy was a little earlier in the last hour here outlining a plan that might be acceptable to both sides, even though democrats do not appear to be very keen on it, that use the funds taken from the drug runners along the border here, billions of dollars, which are gathered each and every year and use that to pay for the wall. i'd want to get reaction to all that with democratic california congressman john ga garamundy. >> that would probably work, but there's an issue some of that would be supplementing for law enforcement, we'd have to backfill, it's an interesting...

Excited about around here in maddow land is -- wait for it -- the final tallies of political spending. for example, year-end financial filings are giving us a peek into how much money hedge fund manager robert mercer spent in 2018. as major trump supporters, the mercers who are the big money behind breitbart news and the now defunct cambridge analytica, he pumped $25 million into the 2016 election. bloomberg news reports the mercers are stepping back from some of that. a mere -- spending a mere $2.9 million on federal elections this year, that's like a two-thirds spending cut. also hot off the...