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President trump about all of this. a lot of folks at home have to be frustrated hearing that word shutdown again. now to president trump taking his border battle to the border city of el paso, texas. that is where he will be met with a dueling rally. joe johns is at the white house with more. this is where the president goes tonight to make a point, one would assume, on his wall. but not every republican lawmaker there is going to greet him with open arms at least when it comes to the facts here. that s very true. dueling rallies, really two visions of america. by the way, the president holding his first rally of this new campaign season, the cycle just kicking off with all the other candidates getting in the race as we ve been talking so much about. look, he s also going to what is the epicenter of the debate over the president s border barrier. and important for a number of reasons. beto o rourke, the rising star democrat, obviously, going to be ....
Publicly regretting his vote to authorize the iraq war. in 2007, he had a pointed message on the state of politics in this country. listen to this. i am seeing a great nation in the last few days of being a graduate nation. and it s because we have those in washington, d.c., who are not doing their job to protect the constitutional rights of the american people. regretting that iraq war vote, he spent a lot of his time in his final days writing a letter to the family of every fallen soldier in iraq. he felt that was his obligation having authorized this war. the congressman planned to retire before the end of his term. there will be a special election to fill his congressional seat. congressman jones died on his birthday. he was 76 years old. ....
Outstanding as a number, an actual dollar figure for the border barrier funding. also a big issue, a lot of division over the number of detention beds for immigrants. democrats are demanding a cap on those beds. that would force the administration to prioritize deportation for criminals. that seems to be a big issue, a big sticking point. we heard a lot of that pessimism from negotiators over the weekend. on sunday, senator richard shelby, one of the chief negotiators said i put the chances at 50/50. he called the talks stalled and not confident a deal could be reached. this a bad tone going into the week. and what the way forward is, that s very unclear at this point. already here on monday, five days before this spending deadline before they have to get a deal, a lot of people talking about potentially a short-term funding measure coming together in the back of all this, president trump rallying tonight in el paso, texas. so important what we hear from ....
A lot of people might be wondering what is the issue with bonuses? yeah. so unfortunately bonuses are really variable. we can t depend on them from year to year. i m out here to support a fair compensation system for all of our teachers. my pay has been too variable for the last several years. we know that the cost of living has risen dramatically. how difficult has it been to live on a teacher salary? when i was single i was paying about 42 to 43% of my take-home salary on rent. i wonder what it looks like. the average teacher salary will go up. it is $61,000. they want to give bonuses based on merit and teef. do you think they look and say these teachers are greedy? ....
Build a wall. going down to el paso for this is a campaign event. this is not business of state. this is a campaign event. for him, the wall is very much a political and campaign issue. and then the shutdown, i think in his way, he still believes that his base is the most critical and that he needs to deliver on some kind of a wall or wall-like barrier. and if he needs to shut down the government again, he could see that as in his political interest. now senate republicans feel very different. mitch mcconnell does not want to shut down the government again. they have a lot of candidates up for re-election in tough races in 2020. their calculus is different. in terms of what the democrats are pushing for here and that s a cap on the number of detention beds at 16,500. we can pull it out from the ....