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Your colleagues just voted and passed the farm bill, $867 billion over the next ten years. it's a head scratcher that you would agree to $867 billion farm bill, and yet you can't find $5.7 billion for border security? >> well, we absolutely and need to find the funding for border security, no question about it. we actually saved money over the last number of years in the farm bill. and, again, if we can keep it from growing, find savings where we can and keep our economy growing, that's how you reduce the debt and deficit. maria: what's your view in terms of the impact of this shutdown on the ...

That includes nancy pelosi, barack obama, hillary clinton in terms of the need to protect the american citizens. we know that. now, donald trump has the idea, he made it a campaign promise, and he said all throughout the campaign build that wall a number of times. is that the reason that you're against the wall and your colleagues against the wall, because it was now donald trump's campaign promise? >> first of all, i've been really clear, i don't think compromise is a dirty word, and i have always said that. i do believe that we need to have a conversation about border security, and border se...

Humanitarian aid for migrants and, obviously, ends the shutdown. what do you believe your colleagues on the left will have a problem with in terms of that list? >> well, look, these are things that our colleagues have voted for before. in addition, we'll include the appropriations bills which are bipartisan and they have supported as well as the supplementals for disaster assistance to help with the hurricanes we had in florida and georgia, with the fires in california, the earthquake we had up in alaska. so, look, this is -- it's very compelling. these are things that they've wanted, that the...

Your colleagues just voted and passed the farm bill, $867 billion over the next ten years. it's a head scratcher that you would agree to $867 billion farm bill, and yet you can't find $5.7 billion for border security? >> well, we absolutely and need to find the funding for border security, no question about it. we actually saved money over the last number of years in the farm bill. and, again, if we can keep it from growing, find savings where we can and keep our economy growing, that's how you reduce the debt and deficit. maria: what's your view in terms of the impact of this shutdown on the ...

Simple. easy. awesome. ♪ ♪ maria: and we're back with congresswoman debbie dingell. congresswoman, i want you to talk to me a bit about why the speaker and your colleagues are so against some kind of fencing or barrier on our southern border. in fact, nancy pelosi has a border wall right in her own state. we're going to look at this map right here of tijuana and the wall that separates tijuana and san diego. you've got about three million people in tijuana and three million in san diego. why wasn't one of her first points on the agenda to tear down this wall if it's immoral? >> so what i w...