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December 26, 2017, less than 1% of the 341 million appropriated for 40 miles of replacement funding have been expended. actual construction has yet to begin on money appropriated in the last fiscal year. so is the president realistic when he says he wants $20 billion so he can build the wall in one year? >> i think the president is encouraging us to go as quickly as we can. as you know it's a very complicated issue building the wall for a variety of reasons. what we're doing right now is we are testing and evaluating this prototype and continue to determine not only the design of thbe differen...

About daca and i'll help you on that issue but i need the three pillars. i need border security, an end to chain migration, an end to lottery migration. we'll replace it with a merit-based system. the democrats have run back to their corner since that time and talked about race and identity politics and everything except the issues. that's bad faith. if they are serious you have to solve the other person's problems not just your own. the democrats are saying if you give us everything we want -- >> the president certainly made that easy to do. the president -- the first thing he did is supporte...

Policy that is putting america first, securing our borders and fixing this daca issue. so for the party moving it to 2018, we've got to show the american people that we heard them, we hear them and that we are serious about fixing the illegal immigration problem, one, and two, putting -- so that congress can finally do their job and do something about daca. that is what the party has to do. we've got to get back on focus, back on message about fixing this issue once and for all. >> so a legislative fix will certainly and i'm sure everybody hopes that it happens before the government runs out o...

Funding over this daca issue. why don't we negotiate in good faith on the issue, roll up your sleeves and let's work this out, but let's not hold the funding of our military hostage over this issue, that's irresponsible and they need to stop it. mike: congressman, your reaction to her comments and are we headed for a government shutdown? >> i don't think so. we'll see the. the republicans control the house, the senate and have the white house. the idea that it's the democrats' fault who have no power to put anything on the floor that we haven't taken action on these issues, that's playing poli...

This is the proposal that a lot of people assume whatever the proposal ends up being. the train that leaves to address the daca issue. this was a bipartisan proposal. three republicans and three democrats who have been working on it for a long period of time. that said, over the course of the last couple of days and they have grown skeptical of this working group. we have seen over the last eight hours. several groups sprout up and several groups of senators who had resistance to where things might be going. in the wake of the white house meeting where everybody took what they wanted, a lot of...