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care bill that the republicans are considering. let's work together. we've worked together on on the fy-17 budget. we want to improve the affordable care act, not repeal it, and there are ways we can do that by bringing down overall health care costs and making particularly in the individual marketplace health insurance more affordable. on the budget issues, we have members of the authorizing committees on both the democratic and republican side, the environmental public works committee we'll be passing out some authorization bills that deal with the budget. we need to deal with a realistic...

>> there is a national and economic safety issue by having a wall that ensures our country's safety and there's plenty of playing that can be done and in fy-17, and we'll continue to ask for more in fy-18. >> you'll notice that in neither president trump's comments nor in the press briefing is there someplace mentioned south of the border called mexico, which means you and me and all of us are going to be paying for the wall. >> we are going to build a great border wall. we will build a great, great wall. >> we're going to build a wall, don't worry about it. >> we will build the wall 100%. i p...

There are things we need to do to protect our country like human trafficking, flow of illegal drugs and gangs that will make sure that while we've achieved a significant drop in illegal alien border crossing, down to 61% this january, this is something that's in our country's long term national security interest. >> the national construction will wait until the fall. >> there's not a question of wait until the fall. >> when will you start doing construction? >> you have to start doing planning. we will take the first steps and will continue to seek funding through the fy-18 and further budget ...

Year 2018. we got about a 40 minute briefing on topics today. the president is asking for money for border security and in that money for border security, there will be money to repair and replace existing sections of fence in addition to putting in some new fence. when talking about bricks and mortar of a concrete wall. sean spicer said the goal of the president is building the wall. here he is. >> the president made it very clear, his priorities have not changed. there will be a wall built. it's important to prevent human trafficking, gangs like ms 13 from coming in, the flow of drugs and il...

There's going to be a case where people had a prior clearance that between the time they filled it out and had it adjudicated, they could have engaged in something and the onus is on the individual. >> all right. i do want to ask you about the wall. yesterday president trump reportedly said that he's going to delay pushing the wall through. can you just clarify what the status of that is? >> the president's priorities have not changed. there will be a wall built. it's important to prevent human trafficking, gangs like ms-13, the flow of illegal drugs, illegal immigration. there's a national se...