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Ready. >> reporter: the expectation is the house will move first, likely tomorrow night, the senate will follow in short order. the expectation is they will be able to pass it probably by a pretty decent margin. first things first, got to actually finish writing the bill. >> yeah. i think so. that sounds so genius and so easy and so not at the same time. let's say this easy/hard stuff happens and the president does sign the bill. can you lay out what the next steps are in terms of more funding for the wall? >> he has been presented and has even talked about this pluublic a whole list of option...

Closed doors this morning trying to sell the plan to their own parties. one thing is certain, that it looks like there is still work to be done when it comes to the president. >> we want to see what the final piece of legislation looks like. it's hard to say whether the president is going to sign it until we know everything that's in it. the president isn't fully happy with everything that's in the legislation, but there are some positive pieces of it. one way or the other and one thing you can be sure of is at the end of the day the president is going to build the wall. >> and i likely don't ...

Careful about that. he's already learned what happens when you try to override the authority of congress. that was a 35-day shutdown. i would hope he doesn't want that again. in addition to that, some of those authorities and one that i'm particularly concerned about because i spent the last eight years working on the u.s. coast guard. the u.s. coast guard interdicts ten times the amount of drug that is the border patrol does on the mexican border. there is a possibility of about a billion dollars that we've appropriated to rebuild coast guard cities which is essential to protect the coast gua...

The president is saying is exactly right. it is a crisis at the border. we do need a wall. >> do you support him going around congress? >> if that's what he has to do. >> you think it's within his constitutional rights? >> from what i've known, i believe that. i'll say it very clear. he's going to get the miles he needs to keep us secure. we got as many as we could do on this agreement. we fought for those miles, many new miles, good miles in the right place. but the american people deserve that wall. >> if you're taking bets today, are you taking a bet this gets through congress and the presi...