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Many billions of dollars. they owe the government 3 1/2 billion. we want the money back now. who project is a green disaster. reaction from the rnc. i don't know if it's common that states give back money after they have it. >> gavin newsom had warned if the portion of the high speed rail had not been completed they would have to return the 3.5 billion. he admitted that. he also admitted there was too little transparency and oversight of the project. president trump verbatim transcribed his words who disputed what he said. >> bill: here is what newsome said. fake news, we're building high spee...

>> with all due respect, i have no interest in sending back $3 1/2 billion of federal funding that was allocated to this project to president donald trump. >> by not stopping the project entirely newsome hopes to avoid repaying washington and a green new deal democrat would win the white house in 2020 and they could sink new federal dollars in the name of climate change. >> sandra: a lot of money. thank you. >> bill: sarah sanders saying the president has options on the table. lawmakers urging him to sign the border proposal. will he or won't he today? a ton to talk about with today's headline...

>> sandra: california governor gavin knew sew slamming the brakes. significantly scaling back on a long-promised high speed rail project connecting san francisco to los angeles saying the price tag is astronomical. william la jeunesse is live with more from our west coast newsroom. what exactly doomed this project? >> absolutely everything, sandra. bad management, unrealistic projections. condemning farmer's land meant lawsuits and delays. fault lines in mountains. inaccurate ridership surveys. rising sub see dees for ticket prices. it was approved for $10 billion in 2008. this train connectin...

We don't know what's in the document. >> sandra: gavin newsom in california, the governor there is pulling 2/3 of their troops from the u.s./mexico border. here he is making his announcement. >> the crisis on the border is a manufactured crisis. and we are not interested in participating in this political theater. some of those efforts are legitimate efforts that the national guard has been engaged in on the border related to drug issues and related to gun trafficking. those issues remain real issues, not manufactured issues. >> sandra: the governor is taking on the president's claim it is a c...

Said that then. even so, let's look at this. the department of homeland security requested the assistance of these troops to go down to the border because we need the help and protection. what i can't understand why mr. newsome would say everyone on the border. my law enforcement folks at the local level from the state of california, we'll put their lives in danger. they're the ones who are on the front lines, right? who put their lives out there every single day protecting the people of their state. and the troops that went down there weren't an enforcement mechanism. they were an assistance ...