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STEPHANOPOULOS: You’re just coming off 24 years in the House of Representatives. Of course, your former colleagues are facing a real decision this week whether or not to accede to that request from the by the president to fund the border wall. You heard Secretary General Sessions on that right there. He says Democrats are making a big mistake.
Do you see any indications that they’re prepared to give the president any of this funding?
BECERRA: George, I’m still trying to figure out who believes that a medieval situation to fix our broken immigrant situation is what we need. And if Republicans are going to insist on having this border wall funding in our federal budget, then, one, Donald Trump is reneging on his promise to have someone else pay. I think here American taxpayers probably are very much aligned with Mexico. None of them, whether it’s Mexico or our taxpayers want to pay for a medieval wall to try to fix our broken immigration system. And Republicans, if they had their act in order in congress, wouldn’t have to worry about what Democrats are doing, the minority party. And George, I’ve been – I was a member of congress, as you said, for 24 years both in the majority and the minority.