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-- to increase paychecks by rebuilding america with green and modern infrastructure from sea to shining sea. we look forward to working with the president on that. to pass h.r. 1, to restore integrity to government so that people can have confidence that government -- in a government that works for the people, not the special interest. .r. 1. this house will take overdue legislation that has bipartisan support, bipartisan support in the congress and across the country. we will make our communities safer and keep our sacred promise to the victims, survivors and families of gun violence by passing bipartisan ackground check legislation. we will make america fairer by passing the equality act, to end discrimination against the lgbtq community. and we will make america more american by passing -- by , otecting our patriotic courageous dreamers. all three -- all three of those legislative initiatives have bipartisan support in this body. when we're talking about the dreamers, let us remember what president reagan said in his last speech as president of the united states. i urge you all to read i

-- to increase paychecks by rebuilding america with green and modern infrastructure from sea to shining sea. we look forward to working with the president on that. to pass h.r. 1, to restore integrity to government so that people can have confidence that government -- in a government that works for the people, not the special interest. .r. 1. this house will take overdue legislation that has bipartisan support, bipartisan support in the congress and across the country. we will make our communities safer and keep our sacred promise to the victims, survivors and families of gun violence by passing bipartisan ackground check legislation. we will make america fairer by passing the equality act, to end discrimination against the lgbtq community. and we will make america more american by passing -- by , otecting our patriotic courageous dreamers. all three -- all three of those legislative initiatives have bipartisan support in this body. when we're talking about the dreamers, let us remember what president reagan said in his last speech as president of the united states. i urge you all to read i

and he said, "building a wall from sea to shining sea would be the most expensive and least effective way to secure the border. true border security demands a flexible, defense-in-depth strategy which includes a mix of personnel, technology and changing tactics, all of which come at a lower price tag than a border wall." that is a loyal republican congressman who knows from former security, former cia officer, and knows the border and says this wall is not a good use of money. >> and the comment says from sea to shining sea. the president says he recognizes that technology is better than a barrier, but there are places where there is no substitute for a barrier. the barriers we have up now, in the high-traffic areas, are over 90% effective. so, where we have built a barrier along the southern border, it's reduced criminal immigration by more than 90%. yes, there are places in the mountain in the middle of nowhere technology's actually better and more cost-effective, but that doesn't obviate having a wall where you need it, and that's what this battle is all about. that goes back to th

a wall from sea to shining sea. that's not appropriate nor will that happen but you have to have some way of making a deterrent and walls work. you see it all the way around the world, weather it be the great wall of china to israel. they do work. but by themselves they need other things and if you move people to ports of entry so you mow who's coming in and leaving, i think that's very, very important. to give you an example about the farmers. if you're having a salad right now between the end of april and -- end of october through the end of april, there's a 95% chance it comes from one of three districts that is mine. so i'm very aware of what's happening around the world and particularly with our farmers. we need disaster aide relief to some farmers in the florida and the southeast and because otherwise they'll lose two years of crops and be much deeper in the hole. i'm not a big tariff guy but when you see the problem that china has extorted, what do you do? do you stay with the status quo and hope for the best

day 19 of a government shutdown that is a direct result of his wish to build a wall from sea to shining sea. it is time for the senate to be the senate. it is time for the folks in this body to quit making decisions based on politics and start making them based on facts. and the facts in this place are clear. there is no plan for $5.7 billion for a border wall. mexico will not pay for it. and the dysfunction of this administration is causing real turmoil in the lives of 800,000 workers and their families. i am calling on the majority to bring common sense to this situation. and to stand behind the bipartisan legislation that republicans and democrats have passed over the last several months and over last month in particular to reopen the government and put an end to this crisis.

-- to increase paychecks by rebuilding america with green and modern infrastructure from sea to shining sea. we look forward to working with the president on that. to pass h.r. 1, to restore integrity to government so that people can have confidence that government -- in a government that works for the people, not the special interest. .r. 1. this house will take overdue legislation that has bipartisan support, bipartisan support in the congress and across the country. we will make our communities safer and keep our sacred promise to the victims, survivors and families of gun violence by passing bipartisan ackground check legislation. we will make america fairer by passing the equality act, to end discrimination against the lgbtq community. and we will make america more american by passing -- by , otecting our patriotic courageous dreamers. all three -- all three of those legislative initiatives have bipartisan support in this body. when we're talking about the dreamers, let us remember what president reagan said in his last speech as president of the united states. i urge you all to read i

wall on the southern border of the united states, concrete wall as he described it from sea to shining sea which incidentally he promised would be paid for by the mexicans. let me say that again. all the pain of thele shutdown s caused because the president made a campaign promise to build this almightyn wall. well, we know something about walls. they don't work very well. it there might have been a great response several hundred years ago to build a wall. not so much today. there are better ways to make america safe than to build a wall and yet the president has said it's my wall or a shutdown. we can have the debate about effective order security and i want to be part of it but we shouldn't do it while holding the government of united states hostage. every day that the government is day that is another president trump is harming innocent americans stopping hundreds of millions from getting their paychecks and even more from getting vital services. we should reopen this government and we have to do it this afternoon. one phonecall from the president to senator mitch mcconnell the republic

kennedy: from sea to shining sea. shelby's wall call may be popular with border agents but not a lot of fans to democrat side. >> president may be disappointed if we don't give him everything he asked for, we're supposed on use our considered bipartisan judgment. kennedy: lawmakers have until february 15. if they can't, president said, he is open to declaring a nation at emergency to build that wall, it congress make a big deal or will shut down show down get a sequel? just like a marvel movie? joining me now, ned ryan, he is joined by host of richard fowler show, richard fowler. >> hey, kenta maeda ken -- kennu are california dreaming. kennedy: i am and the weather is great. i don't know what that below zero nonsense every is talking about. nancy pelosi said that walls are immoral. >> jefferies jeffries is numbeg democrat in the house. he said, that democrats open to some sort of fencing where necessary based on evidence. i don't think they are taking it off table, but i don't think they will build fencing border wal

] to increase paychecks by rebuilding america with green and modern infrastructure from sea to shining seawe look forward to working with the president on that. to pass h.r.-1, to restore integrity to government so that people can have confidence in a government that works for the people, not the special interests, h.r.-1. [ applause ] this house will take overdue legislation that has bipartisan support, bipartisan support, in the congress and across the country. we will make our communities safer and keep our sacred promise to the victims and survivors and families of gun violence by passing common sense bipartisan background check legislation. [ applause ] we will make america fairer by passing the equality act to end discrimination against the lgbg community and we will make america more american by passing -- by protecting our patriotic courageous dreamers. all three -- all three of those legislative initiatives have bipartisan support in this body. and when we're talking about the dreamers, let us remember what president reagan said in his last speech as president of the united states

we do not need 2,000 miles of concrete wall from sea to shining sea. we never did. we never proposed that. we never wanted that, because we have barriers at the border where natural structures are as good as anything that we can build. they're already there. they have been there for millions of years. our proposed structures will be in pre-determined, high-risk locations that have been specifically identified by the border patrol to stop illicit flows of people and drugs. no border security plan can ever work without a physical barrier. just doesn't happen. at the same time, we need to increase drug detection technology and manpower to modernize our ports of entry, hich are obsolete. the equipment is obsolete. they're old, they're tired. this is something we have all come to agree on and will allow for quicker and safer ommerce. these critical investments will improve and facilitate legal trade and travel through our lawful ports of entry. our plan also includes desperately needed humanitarian assistance for those being exploited and abused by coyotes, smugglers and

] to increase paychecks by rebuilding america with green and modern infrastructure from sea to shining sea look forward to working with the president on that. to pass hr 1, to restore integrity to government so people with have confidence that government that works for the people not the special interests. hr 1. [ applause ] this house will take over due legislation that has bipartisan support. bipartisan support in the congress and across the country. we will make our community safer and keep our sacred promise to the victims and survivors and families of gun violence by passing common sense bipartisan background legislation. [ applause ] we will make america fairer by ending discrimination against the lgbtq community. [ applause ] we will make america more american by protecting our patriotic courageous dreamers. [ applause ] all three of those legislative initiate gives have bipartisan support in this body. when we're talking about the dreamers, let us remember what president reagan said. in his last speech as president of the united states, it's a beautiful speech. he said if we ever c

the house is committed to rebuild america with gene, modern and modern infrastructure shining-sea. [applause] setty osi: and mayor gar in building infrastructure in los angeles in a very major way. investing in our transit systems andmodernizing our airports provide safe modern learning and say to kids, education is important, you must study and must learn and yet they get a message, we send them to a school that is not up to par for them. mayor palmer and i and trenton, a while back kids learning how to build green infrastructure in the schools there. some of you have taken the lead in aimportant and i have been here when you received your awards. i have been here when you received your awards in the arts. bringing broadband internet to every corner in the country and fixing our broken mortar system. some of our water systems are of 100 years old and built brick and wood. nd building this in a way that protects clean air and clean water and combats the climate crisis. must embrace the three i's, building our infrastructure in a way that is innovative and inclusive. congratulations

david: you heard a couple things -- smart wall, and we do not need it from sea to shining sea.ere something that would make sense in terms of security across the border? >> david, that is the question. that is why i have broken my silence, because some of the rhetoric has misinformed the american people. no, we do not need a physical barrier from sea to shining sea. the experts have never said that. where we need it, we need it in a strategic location. as part of that multilayer strategy of technology and personnel, we need to do it as part of a wall system. but it is not needed everywhere. david: has anyone gone down there and actually blocked it out, like a mile by mile, this is where we need electronics, this is where we need people? has anybody come up with a plan? mark: when i was there in 2016, we reengineered that. we dusted off what had been done previously, and now they have done that again. the experts will tell you that they have prioritized 230 new miles of fencing as part of the multilayer strategy, and they have identified the top priority areas, like laredo. the

to increase paychecks by rebuilding america with green and modern infrastructure from sea to shining sea. we look forward to working with the president on that. to pass hr-1, to restore integrity to government so that people can have confidence that government that works for the people, not the special interests. hr-1. [applause] this house will take overdue legislation that has bipartisan support. bipartisan support in the congress and across the country. we will make our community safer and keep our sacred promise to the victims and survivors of gun violence bypassing common sense background checks legislation. [applause] we will make america fairer but passing the equality act to end discrimination against the lgbt community and we will make america more american bypassing -- by protecting our patriotic courageous dreamers. [applause] all three of those legislative initiatives have bipartisan support in this body. when we're talking about the dreamers, let us remember what president reagan said. in his last speech as president of the united states, i urge you all to read it. it's a be

i don't think it needs to be sea to shining sea. it is imperative for democrats to say we have things we want. how can we get things we want and give the president a little of what he wants as well. and there's a lot of talk why didn't republicans do this when we had everything. it is a fair point, except we all know the 60 point rule in the senate. frankly, in 2009, democrats had 60 votes in the senate in every level of government and didn't handle the dreamer population. there's a lot of would have, could have, should have. we have a three-week period we can be adults. i guarantee you if we come out with a compromise, i think 70 or 80% of americans would support it. >> let's talk about compromise. about a year ago when the government shutdown about this time last year, democrats went to the president hoping there could be an exchange of $25 billion over ten years for the wall, exchange for permanent protections for daca resip yenl -- recipients. is there an equation, some bargain, some compromise that would include permanent prote

building a new concrete wall from sea to shining sea, doesn't even address this issue.e point where we open the government and have this honest conversation. would you reconsider your earlier answer as to the fact that we need to build more barriers to stop narcotics from coming in to the united states? >> it wasn't tied just to narcotics -- >> you said a major avenue for how drugs come into this country, it's not. >> i said -- wait a minute. go back. >> the border is the major avenue but your answer was we need barriers on the borders. >> right. we need barriers on the border for border security. part whaf we're trying to do is cut down on drugs. it's also illegal aliens, it's also other -- people from other countries who may wish to do harm in the united states that are coming in and barriers are part of the answer and from my experience, the threat is always dynamic. you put technology at the ports of entry, they'll shift some where else. it's a moving target. always has been and i think we need a system that covers all the bases. >> i think the reason we cannot reac

-- to increase paychecks by rebuilding america with green and modern infrastructure from sea to shining sea. we look forward to working with the president on that. to pass h.r. 1, to restore integrity to government so that people can have confidence that government -- in a government that works for the people, not the special interest. .r. 1. this house will take overdue legislation that has bipartisan support, bipartisan support in the congress and across the country. we will make our communities safer and keep our sacred promise to the victims, survivors and families of gun violence by passing bipartisan ackground check legislation. we will make america fairer by passing the equality act, to end discrimination against the lgbtq community. and we will make america more american by passing -- by , otecting our patriotic courageous dreamers. all three -- all three of those legislative initiatives have bipartisan support in this body. when we're talking about the dreamers, let us remember what president reagan said in his last speech as president of the united states. i urge you all to read i

also increasing the paychecks by building infrastructure of america from sea to shining sea and hr-1 which is moving along our integrity in government to increase the voices of the american people so they know that the people's agenda will happen, not the special interest agenda. paycheck issue had a hearing yesterday and we also had -- yesterday was the 10th anniversary of president obama signing the lilly ledbetter act. this opened the door to more fairness in the workplace. yesterday, on the anniversary, delauroain,rosa we pass a it and number of times when we had the majority but we could not get the 60 votes in the senate so it was never taken up and out patty murray is a cosponsor -- the lead sponsor in the senate on that that is equal pay for equal work. yesterday was the 10th anniversary. april 2 is equal pay day. that is the day in which women start to get paid for their work for the year as opposed to what men make for the year so we hope this bill would be signed into law by that day. it's all a part of the for the people agenda for bigger paychecks, lower health care cost

the president said, i don't need a sea to shining sea wall. there's about 550 miles of completely unprotected area where we know bad things, drugs, human trafficking, murders come across. let's focus on that area. if nancy pelosi really doesn't want a wall, president trump said hey, i'll be willing to let you put a wall that bans cement wall. have a barrier. the steel slat barriers are what the experts say work the best. let the experts do it. you don't need politicians telling us what to do. let the people that risk their leaves keep us safe, have the debate, a conference committee now. let the democrats and republicans, house and senate members start to work today. they have a few weeks to do this. i think we can solve this in hours if everybody gets in the room, puts the partisanship on the side and the personality differences on the side. this is about keeping america safe. let's get it done. i curious what you make of this. there's the books out, former governor chris christie has one out where he berates kushner. and then the low-ranking

but this is not the sea to shining sea wall. >> the plan includes $5.7 billion for a strategic deployment of physical barriers or a wall. this is not a 2,000-mile concrete structure from sea to sea. these are steel barriers in high priority locations. >> a lot of democrats have voted for barriers in high priority locations. the president was trying to sound more reasonable. >> and the administration and the president himself has been trying to walk the whole concrete wall idea back for some time now because we have heard the phrase steel slats for a while. a new talking point i heard a lot from republican senators this week is previous presidents got walls or fences. why can't this president get new fencing? he's only asking for 230 miles. but i thought another interesting story line yesterday was the re-emergence of mitch mcconnell. he's been on the sidelines. he wanted trump and the democratic leaders to figure this out which is a very unusual position for the majority leader. but sources told me yesterday after mcconnell saw the disinvite from the state of the union by nancy pelosi thi

and what the administration put forth is not a wall from sea to shining sea, here is where the rio grande is, we want leavees here and out of a $4 trillion budget represents one-tenth of 1% and what border control has advocated for is not a wall and that is what the trump administration put forward to congress to fund. >> but the point is the president is also holding other issues hostage as a result of this. and i know that is become a talking about what tiny sliver of the budget is but make the same argument for food stamps or the pay for tsa that inspect people before they go on planes so they are not carrying bombs. and those are security arguments as well. are they not? you are de -- defunding other security priorities and holding up, because, let's be frank, this is a political promise that the president wants to stick to here. can you make the same argument regarding other national security priorities that are being held hostage to this. >> it is politics on both sides. it is not about the money. the democrats just put forward a budget that increased spending by $20 million includi

we don't need a wall from sea to shining sea. we don't need it. >> we need a wall where we need a wall. the problem is you don't want a wall anywhere. the american people deserve protection from these folks who want to come in here and bring drugs, human trafficking, and murder and violence to americans. that's what we see every single day, and the blood is on the hands of the democrats. >> jason: we are going to wrap up here but -- fundamental problem. >> i agree we need security and i agree we should have the proper security. i don't believe we need -- >> those are words. they are words. >> ladder beats wall. >> we are tired of words. that's what the american people are tired of. they are tired of washington, d.c., -- guys like you who just -- >> mexico pays for it. >> this president gets it done chris. you'd just talk about it. >> jason: i've never seen a party be successful that wants to abolish i.c.e., support sanctuary cities, doesn't like the wall, doesn't want to support the federal workers. >> chain migration, the lotter

some days he wants a wall from sea to shining sea.till think the ultimate outcome here most likely outcome is that a deal is crafted he does not like or he signals republicans not to sign on to and he eventually declares a national emergency. i don't think the government shutdown again because that's broadly seen as catastrophic for him and his party. but i don't see anything that's fund mental fundamentally changed in where weapon got the shutdown from. >> just to put a finer point on this how crazy this outside the beltway. outside the beltway what it sounds like is the president has worked his way from a thousand miles sea to shining sea to 234 miles. he's worked his way from a 30-foot cement wall to slats or a barrier of some kind. and democrats have worked their way from 0 to 5.7 billion, which is what the president wanted for something. for some sort of border security. and so the idea that they can't close this deal is a shocker. >> it could be, but -- and i think that's why you've seen especially before the first meeting start

to shining sea, as he said.d simply do what we've been doing for 20 years. so i'm optimistic that the committee, which just last summer in the senate approved another $1.6 billion for 65 miles of physical barrier, will be able to come up with a compromise. maria: well, you are on the appropriations committee, sir. what would be the appropriate number to actually come up with the money for a border wall? and we know that on the left many of your colleagues just want to resist this president. is that what nancy pelosi is doing, given the fact that we know in the past she has voted for border fencing, barriers like the one in her own state we just looked at? >> that's why we need to get it into the hands of members of congress who for 20 years have been saying we need more physical barrier, we need more technology, we need more custom agents, we need more border agents. we can do that just as we did for president obama, clinton, bush and bush and come up with a reasonable number for all of those things as part of a

>> because surrounding -- putting a wall sea to shining sea -- >> neil: he's not going to put it acrossiculated where he needs it. we pressed him in these meetings, show us the vulnerabilities. are you going to put a wall up against the rio grande? is that -- >> neil: he made it clear it's not going to go every inch of 2,000 miles -- >> i don't know if he made it clear, neil. >> neil: if he already said that and you want clarity on that, then you would be open for some of this? >> i want to give you an example. i'm standing in the capitol. think about walls. if i asked you is there a wall that surrounds the capitol? if you wanted to make sure that there were people that shouldn't be here. the answer is no, there's not a wall around the capitol. are there police officers, video cameras, barrier checkpoints? yes. is the capitol at risk of invasi invasion? >> in your state between san diego and tijuana, there is a wall, right? >> there are -- >> neil: that works like a charms, right? >> the security -- well, the president doesn't think so. i think that we could beef up border patrol agents

from sea to shining sea.he president has long ago said he recognizes the fact there are places where technology is actually better than a barrier. but there are places where there is no substitute for a barrier. the barriers we have up now in the high traffic areas are over 90% effective. where we have built a barrier along the southern border, it's reduced criminal immigration by more than 90%. there are places out in the mountains in the middle of nowhere where technology is better and more effective. but that doesn't obviate having a wall where you need it. the $5.6 billion is for border security, including the wall. right now their number for all border security is $1.3 billion, which is clearly inadequate. that's a status quo number. if all we have is a status question then next year we have the same problems which is not acceptable to the president. >> president trump trying to drum up support for the wall. on friday said that some past u.s. presidents have told him that they should have built a wall al

health care costs, increase being paychecks, by building green infrastructure of america from sea to shining sea. and we gave people confident can dense that this could happen -- confidence that this could happen in a way was in the people's interest not in special interests because of h.r. 1. it's important for what it does. it's important for the confidence it gives people that their voices and their concerns are heard. that restoring the people's faith in government works is our agenda. we're thrilled that so many champions of democracy are here in this room representing organizations that fought this fight for such a long time. and again we're -- you'll hear about it, but it has many features. one of them is about setting us up for the voting rights act which will not be a part of the first, as we go forward, because we have to build the constitutional record to do that. but we will do that in a short order and then we'll have the complete h.r. 1 passed by the house of representatives with the knowledge, transparency that the american people will know that this is an option that the house ha

she quotes, we do not need 2,000 miles of wall from sea to shining sea. we never did. that's from president trump this afternoon. again, our plan here on c-span, continue taking your calls and comments. we'll take you to the briefing with house speaker pelosi and democratic leader chuck schumer shortly. and also show you the comments from president trump once again. the senate is in session. that's live over on c-span2. and no word yet on whether the house is coming back in this afternoon. we will keep you posted. we'll go to ohio, this is warren on our republican line. caller: yes. i'm glad they got the government started back up. we never need a wall. but they got to do something. because democrats and republicans will in her work together. they have to learn how to work together to make the benefit for this country, make us a greater country. and to help the president. i think he's done a pretty good job and they just need to do something to make better border security. the wall is not the answer. but they need to do something and they need to start working together