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The time in the white house. that she was willing to answer stuff from the campaign, much like bannon did, but after that, cited executive privilege and said she would not talk further. >> and you made the point that while that may hinder the work of the committees, she's already spent her time with bob mueller. he knows everything she knows. >> right. she's already spent some time with bob mueller, who knows if she ends up spending more time with bob mueller. yeah, i think the bannon playbook as juonathan put it, wrks part because i think the trump white house isn't particularly concerned abo...

Run, and it was launched actually earlier than had planned. and i just think that they -- you know, look, other administrations have dealt with critical books in the past and they've done it in a way, whether it was a republican or a democrat, where they sort of just dismissed it and moved on and talked about their message. and this white house just isn't capable of doing that. >> matt, let's talk about immigration, daca and the wall proposal, this presented to dick durbin, democrat from the senate, late last week. what's proposed is $33 billion in new border spending, reported $18 billion her...

President trump can and will support. even some house conservatives acknowledge they won the democratic votes to get this done. >> every fiber in my being, there is not going to be a government slow down. i think we will be able to put the package together and have it out of there this week. the tough part is we have to find eight votes in the senate to avoid the senate filibuster, so we are going to have to find what brings those senate democrats along. >> as for senate democrats, their leader, senator chuck schumer has called money for a border wall a white house priority, a nonstarter. schu...

Meeting. leyla, thank you. house speaker paul ryan is set to lead a group of republican lawmakers to the mexican border today, on a factfinding mission about border security. this as congress looks at the wall proposal and how to pay for it. it seems like the house speaker and his office have been pretty tight-lipped about this trip, not exactly playing it up ahead of time. any details you've learned? >> reporter: yeah, poppy, in fact, having grown up in the region and even covered it for several years, i can tell you these kind of visits are not unusual in this part of the country. what is ...

Some have told you. >> he's obviously talking about having mexico pay for it. do you think that's actually a viable option? >> no. >> why do you say that? >> because it's not a viable option. >> you've been here a long time are you skeptical in any way, do you believe that mexico will actually pay for this wall? >> i doubt that they're going to pay for it. >> so those are significant comments from veteran lawmakers and why that's significant is because the plans for congress to pay for it and mexico pay for it later, but if members do not think mexico will then that means tax payers will, so y...