PETE HEGSETH (CO-HOST): I will take you into the wayback flashback machine. President Trump from May of 2018 said, “our border and our laws are a mess, our immigration laws are a disgrace. We may have to close up our country to get that straight.” He said multiple times that a shutdown will happen if the border wall is not funded. So when you look at those poll numbers and you see President Trump at 64 percent, your average Republican at 20 percent, yet they keep saying nah, we just can't really agree on this border wall, we just can't get the funding for it. It's a couple billion bucks; we got billions of dollars for this, for that, for this, for that, the Republicans didn't vote for, but we can't fund the border wall? I don't understand why they can't get that. And I think the president would be wise to reiterate that he would shut it down if they won't give a border wall, and I just don't understand where that statement comes from from [Sen.] Mitch McConnell [(R-KY)].

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