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There and she voted for and knows it's in her own state, and yet she says any more wall is immoral. >> yeah. that's -- we need to get it out of the speaker's hands and the public debate and into the hands of members of congress who have for 20 years known that a comprehensive border security plan includes more personnel, more technology and more physical barrier. president trump's asking for about 234 more miles of physical barrier as part of a comprehensive plan that would not build a wall from shining sea to shining sea, as he said. it would simply do what we've been doing for 20 years. so i...

City, and i want to do more to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the country. so i think there's a lot of common ground, and i think the way to approach this and the way i would if i was mayor is to say, you know, there's a conversation, a debate about wall or no wall. let's step back from that conversation where it's divisive, and let's talk about what we have in common. let's find that thread of commonality amongst republicans and democrats. i think the thread of commonality is we all want to protect the border. we can find common ground on that. so in some places that's going to mean tech...

Many of your colleagues just want to resist this president. is that what nancy pelosi is doing, given the fact that we know in the past she has voted for border fencing, barriers like the one in her own state we just looked at? >> that's why we need to get it into the hands of members of congress who for 20 years have been saying we need more physical barrier, we need more technology, we need more custom agents, we need more border agents. we can do that just as we did for president obama, clinton, bush and bush and come up with a reasonable number for all of those things as part of a comprehe...

A border wall as the president had demanded. louisiana republican congressman steve scalise joins me now, and it is a pleasure to see you. thanks so much for joining us. >> good morning, maria, always great to be back with you. maria: do you expect to have border wall funding in the next the three weeks before the next deadline? >> i sure hope it's going to be part of a final agreement and, you know, while president trump said we're going to give you another three weeks, kind of calling the democrats' bluff who were saying we won't negotiate while the government's closed, okay, now the governm...

There's some other things i'd like to see. you put the two things together, and you get a result. that's what we did with presidents obama, clinton, bush and bush, that's what we should do with president trump. maria: let me ask you this, let's say in the next three weeks nancy pelosi digs in and says absolutely no more than one dollar for any wall or fence, will the government close down again? >> the government should never close down -- maria: so what are you going to do? >> well, i always vote to open the government, period. what i hope the speaker would do -- she's taken her position, the...