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Decision to go around congress as speaker pelosi maintains that the wall is simply a non-starter. >> there's not going to be any wall money in the legislation. what did he say today, congress is -- it doesn't matter what congress does? i knew that he wanted it all to himself. i mean, really? a president who wants to have congress be completely irrelevant in how we meet the needs of the american people? no, come on. maria: joining me, republican congressman from ohio, the founding member of the house freedom caucus, he's also the ranking member of the house oversight committee and serves on the...

Security budget, and it's money that hasn't been appropriated. constitutionally, congress has to appropriate dollars, but money that's there that hasn't been spent and appropriated, the president can use that to construct border security fencing under current law. to build the border security wall, he would need to declare an emergency or congress would need to pass language which says we appropriate these dollars for a border security wall, and that's been a hang-up. democrats won't negotiate with us even though they said you open up the government, mr. president, we will negotiate then. the ...

Border security wall den. maria: so nothing really has changed. you were among those pushing the president to dig in, look, keep the government closed. was all of that worth it? >> we were pushing the president to do what with we told the american people we were going to do. it doesn't take a genius -- what are we on now, the fifth caravan forming, going to be here any day now in texas? anyone with common sense can see we need a border security wall, we need to secure our border, we need to reform our asylum laws if we're going to address the problem if as the president says every day if we're...

Their leaders. and so i think that could happen. my request of them, could they please do it well in advance of february the 15th when the funding for general government goes away -- maria: yeah. >> and a shutdown is not, is not a desired outcome. maria: senator, real quick on the money that he's using to -- he said that he's started to build the wall already. where's that money coming from? he said he's hoping that 115 miles of wall will be built within the near future. >> i mean, congress has approved money for border security including physical structures for a long time. and so the preside...

Government shutdown. in fact, i have legislation that i'll be introducing in the next week that essentially outlaws shutdowns. i think this is a tool that damages the american people, and we ought not be able to default to a shutdown because we can't get our work done and come to some agreement over an issue that has legitimate different points of view. maria: yeah. isn't it true though that the area we're talking about, the southern border, is, in fact, very dense just like the area between tijuana and san diego? a lot of people very close to each other where perhaps that's one area where a p...