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of today's washington post says the confirmation hearings get under way this week on capitol hill. the piece by ed o'keefe and john sullivan, higher vetting is urge. leadersg democratic chuck schumer saying we should love -- slow down. we will have coverage beginning tuesday including the internal ,eneral -- attorney general jeff sessions. listen to it on c-span radio and streamed on our website at c-span.org. .e want to focus on the wall the wall between the u.s. and mexico, which became a centerpiece of the donald trump campaign. , heng the campaign suggested that if mexico did not agree to pay for the wall, the u.s. might impose a seat on

financial remittance sent home by mexican workers in the u.s. illegally. such a move would provoke opposition from the financial services and does he. suggested that the deal as good pressure mexico by slowing down the process by which mexicans get visitors visas. that is from the l.a. times. susan is joining us from fredericksburg, virginia our lines were democrats. will we end up paying for this wall? your thoughts. good morning. , it is a ridiculous they for donald trump to put out there. i would like to know who came up with the estimate, 12 billion to $38 billion. please have somebody incident. it was not donald trump. thank you. host: republican line wanda, chico, california. caller: first i want to congratulate c-span from having -- for having to liberal guest this morning.

i agree with the previous caller who said they estimate how much the wall will cost. you know how much money we give ?o mexico in foreign aid if we could just stop the foreign night -- foreign aid that will be enough to pay for the wall. host: sac, burlington vermont, democrats line. i would like to make a comment. i think that is one thing that i find that donald trump is doing will be good for this country. i think the wall is needed. i think that we have a problem allowing illegal aliens just come over and take our entitlements from people whose citizens of this country don't have. it is a problem. like to make a comment that i think that is the good

idea of him building the wall and congress should give them money to complete the project. host: he said that mexico would pay for it. caller: i don't think it really matters who pays for it. i think it needs to be done. however this is going to be paid for and funded, my interest say it is a good idea. mexico should pay for it. i think they should pay for it. the u.s.on't i think government should pay for it. i think it is a problem in this country. it creates a condition where the united states -- they can't take care of the world. it just can't happen. that is a collateral problem with medicare. hospitals can't just take care of people that come into this that may be have all

kinds of different diseases. who will pay for that? the taxpayers are paying for that. i think it's a big problem and i think that's a good idea for him to have a wall built. that's all i want to make that comment. host: new york times is reporting on this. republicans have balked for increases in domestic spending during the obama administration and our and likely to rally behind a proposal that could rick or billions of taxpayer dollars -- that could require billions of taxpayer dollars. it could run into billions of dollars. live on theis british times. chesterfield, england is our next caller. john, good afternoon. caller: i am calling from the

u.k.. i find it incredible that the takes everything donald trump says and takes it literally. a lot of what he says makes sense. host: thank you. another tweak, there they go again, democrats grasping at straws area let's go to delano from conway, missouri. think that waste, abuse and fraud would a for the wall. ronald reagan tried this with .he military-industrial complex thank you for c-span. entry fees would probably be a violation of the nafta treaty entry just have the force of u.s. law. victor from california on independent line. caller: good morning.

thank you. i want people to know that ,llegal or not they pay taxes, they will use their taxes to pay for the wall. i am sick and tired of people saying all immigrants this immigrants that. once they come over here and theseobs in california, guys are saying they don't got no jobs. come to california, we have money of farm jobs for you guys. thanks for the call. the independent in great britain are -- reports on this. vincente fox has some choice words to donald trumps claimed that mexico would pay for the wall. he deny mexico would refund any costs associated with building the wall. butan ask whoever he wants

myself more mexico are going to pay for his racist monument, another promisee cannot keep. bill from glen rose texas, democrats line. good morning. caller: good morning. the people that work in minnesota in the dairy industry, [inaudible] across then't walk feels they fly out of mexico. they have been illegal and always have been. you. thank politico is also writing about

all of this. and what could happen on capitol hill. in 2006, president bush provided for the construction of a 700 miles worth of a physical barrier along the southern border. it was never constructed but the law did not include a sunset provision allowing republicans to seek a program already on the books. it could become a must pass , having to shut down the government if they choose to oppose it. randy lexington north carolina, good morning. i'm an independent. as far as the wall and immigrants are concerned, the way that i look at it is, i am a firm believer of helping everybody but what about having to help yourself first. if my family and your family was starving and we didn't have

anything whose family do you think i would feetfirst? gete jobs we're trying to we are letting millions of people in here and we can't get a job ourselves. i don't mind letting people in here but we need to help ourselves before we help anybody else area it doesn't make any sense. it doesn't make any sense democrat and people going crazy over all this. my concern is you need to help yourself before you help anybody else. you need to help your own family and get the united states act up and working right, then we can concern ourselves about immigrants and letting them in and helping wherever we can. ourselves our first. host: thank you. taxpayers to pay for the wall? that is the question and the remaining 20 minutes.

k this tree, i believe mexico fund the wall. bill from san antonio, texas. independent line. good morning. has proven and history has proven that walls don't work. it didn't work the great wall of china did not keep the mongolians out. hadrian's wall in didn't keep the scots out. the berlin wall in germany did not work. ands take a look at history see what works and what doesn't works. spend $38going to billion on something let's spend it on failing infrastructure. mexico will not pay for that wall. the american people are going to wind up paying for it in our taxes. just more of the same. have a good day. host: thank you. the ranges between 12 billion but -- and $38 billion. republicans in congress are beginning to grapple with how

president donald trump fulfill one of his biggest campaign promises to build a wall along the mexican border to slow immigration. he is expected to ask congress to provide initial funding. the l.a. times, the massive process -- project is expected to be -- to cost between 12 billion and 38 billion. matthew, virginia beach, virginia. caller: let's pray for america and our government. a mexican comedian once said america builds a 20 foot wall and we will build a 21 foot fence. a lot of businesses nowadays have credit cards capable to read a chip and what have you. we could implement that into a government database where a worker in the united states gives an id card with a chip and it and every employer has to lock and as like that workers

card into the database and it pops up whether or not that person is legal. if you get two of those entries ,nto separate cities or states the immigration department shows up at brands the individual and their eyes they are not legal to work there. that's all we need. we need a virtual wall thank you. host: a reminder that the house and senate in all weekend confirmation hearings getting underway on tuesday and we will be streaming them on our website at c-span.org. ottumwa, iowa is next. --ler: this is a big squeeze waste of money. we are already paying for the national guard. all 50 states have a national guard or state militia. it, it'sying for already in the budget. put the national guard down

there. that will stop the problem. host: thank you. another comment. mexico will pay for the wall. when the illegals are forced to stay in mexico it will drain its budget even more. stephen, anderson south carolina, good morning and welcome to the conversation. caller: the v.a. and the drug enforcement agency's funding, they confiscate enough money in this country to build the wall. there is no need to ask anyone for money to build this wall. these illegals that are coming into the country are coming and because of the crisis that is going on in mexico. the drug cartels are taking over their cities, they have nowhere else to go. where are they going? there is nowhere for them to go. if we fund this and build it ourselves, screen these people properly we would have no problem with them coming to work and being part of our society. there is no problem. i see no problem in that. host: thank you.

another tweet, and numerous creative ways that mexico can pay for the all, taxes, tariffs, penalties and surcharges. let's go to tommy, north carolina, good morning. is down. -- it is down. there's a better way to do it than building a wall. tower like they have around prisons. host: thank you for the call. no from miami, good morning. i think the world is

playing hockey democracy. we can pay for the wall, we can have all these illegals folks leave back automatically. how? that time we get anybody is employed here, like in miami we have lots of contractors that don't want to employ folks are here because they have to pay them higher. these are the same contractors that are on donald trump side. every time we get an employer finedires illegal is $100,000 or more. they will not hire these folks will go back automatically. whatever money we have left over we use it for the wall and we will have jobs for everyone here. hypocrites, they just want a group of people. host: thank you. in forcing immigration laws is

our -- it is entirely ours. pennsylvania, paul on the democrats line. good morning. caller: high. yes, i have a good idea. and isn't donald trump all his billionaire buddies get together and pay for the wall. thank you. from quincy, illinois. on our republican line. caller: talking about paying for the wall. ford is keeping the factory up here in the u.s. and was 700 more people in that will bring money into the government. if you look at it, that is something to pay for the wall. costing mexico to do that. the more industry that moves appear, industry from mexico and is going to mexico the more it is paying for it.

when israel wanted a wall at the week $11 billion. they have been paying for it ever since. gave them $3.8 billion a year. take care of their own country first. . host: port saint lucie, florida. lewis is next. just a brief thing on , andwall, the immigration the early 80's i sent a letter to my congresswoman of the day in new jersey with a copy of -- this story. her response was nice. this is one of the reason trump got elected. all they are doing is lining their pockets. the washington times has a story recently where in the month of october the border patrol stop over 46,000 from coming across our border. the other gentleman who said the

right.at's they had a documentary on your station last night about the billion dollars in the cost of being snuck across the border. being the graft and do what israel does with national service. not all bad people. we know that. that is the quandary. but when you look at the gangs and terror in this country and what is coming across the border. recently an article that the somalis have now found that is the way to come into america. from toronto,l florida. republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. right next to the terrelul trump national --doral. he has built a wall around the golf course. i think the wall will work. host: thank you for all of your

calls and comments on this sunday morning and we will continue the conversation every day at 7 a.m.. tomorrow the focus will be on the confirmation process for the attorney general. we will be joined by susan crabtree who has been following clark,this and kristin the director of the reuters committee for civil rights under law and william smith. morning atorrow seven and eastern time. a full day of programming on c-span2 book tv and c-span3 american history tv. i hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend. newsmakers is next. have a great weekend.

>> here on c-span, "newsmakers" is next with republican congressman mark walker of north carolina. then, the national intelligence director and the n.s.a. director testified before congress about russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election. later, senator sheldon whitehouse and representative michael mccaul discuss consolidation of cybersecurity operations and other recommendations for combating cyberthreats. guest thissmakers" week is congressman mark walker of colorado. he will be seeing lots of him this year. the 47-yearld