gasoline to try to take long detours to get to work. martha: so president obama is asking congress to sign off on $3.7 billion in emergency funding that would go to help the influx of immigrants at our southern border right now. but the critics not so quick to jump on board. they say the aid request doesn't actually do anything to secure the border. congressman ted poe of texas a member of the house judiciary committee and vice chairman of the subcommittee on immigration and border security. welcome, good to have you here today. >> thank you, martha. martha: what do you make of this $3.7 billion request? >> it is misguided in the sense, assume we're in a sinking ship, there's a hole this ship. we need to plug the hole. we need to fix the border. rather than do that, we're just bailing out the ship full of water. that is what this bill does. it offers more pails to bail out the water. so it is misguided what the real problem is and what we should do about it. martha: 3.7. we just listened to, sort of a detail were the money goes.