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Interview. this is clearly a full-court press by the administration to get as many republican senators later today to vote against the. pete: all the way. they are trying to make that zero sum vote. if you vote against us, forget about the precedence argument or idiosyncrasies. either you are with the president on border security. you want that wall, period, or you are voting against it the point to make good luck going back to your district or state as a republican senator in this trump era. steve: to explain that. pete: to explain you voted against the president trying to build the wall he s...

Should be used for something else. he says the $7 billion in the pentagon budget for the wall should go to defense. where do your colleagues stand on this issue? >> look, so just to be clear on the numbers, because i think there is a lot of misreporting out there. $3.6 billion is backfilling what we're using now. the rest -- this $5 billion number we just had the shutdown fight over is not a made-up number. not just something coming from the white house. that's from customs and border patrol. the president actually moved on his rhetoric. these are steel slats in strategic areas in between our ...

Nancy pelosi sitting beside the president as he delivers his state of the union address. it will be a big topic. >> the fact that she wants to continue this stalemate to try to not fund border security is in furtherance of her goal. >> sandra: the president over the weekend saying that he wants to watch iran for this reason. >> president trump: i want to be able to watch iran. i want to watch. we have an unbelievable and expensive military base built in iraq. it is perfectly situated for looking at all over different parts of the troubled middle east. rather than pulling up -- this is what a l...

What do we need to know this morning? >> what you need to know is that there is not going to be a whole lot that the military can do but they'll be there for support. people will make all these thousands of asylum claims. if they are able to cross the border, that means that before too long they are going to be released back into the interior of the united states. and so this is a real problem for us. it is a problem because we have not built the wall, we haven't added border security. we're under funded and under manned and under agent i guess you would say on the border patrol right now. >> ...

Work out the differences that is up to the conference committee in the purest form it is an open wide ranging debate between the 2010 conference committee dodd/frank reform legislation in a conference committee is nothing more than a glorified press conference like on border security. everything else is behind closed doors. >> of think of the conference committee with the house and the senate with the digital frontier drones and fencing and put it into a blender. hopefully when they mix it together to produce a singular unified bill it is called the conference report to prove that the conferen...