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Homeland security is scrambling to answer those questions. it is the sort of thing that has been done in other administrations. but always before a presidential announcement was actually made. lets bring in the panel tonight. so steve, is this the way to navigate and implement policy day by day by this president or is that an unfair characterization? >> i get the point you are making and he is our first citizen president meaning he had no government experience before elected. he made a case that...

Domestic law enforcement functions. this afternoon the homeland security secretary announced the national guard will be deployed to the southwest border. but key details seemed lacking such as the number of troops, how long theyll be deployed, and how much its going to cost. tonight the department of homeland security is scrambling to answer those questions. its the sort of thing that has been done in other administrations, the bush administration, the obama administration, but always before a p...

Keen on doing, while he discusses what a real crisis we have at the border. the last point id make no one is talking about which is this puts incredible pressure on congressional republicans to come up with something while they still have the majority, to pass some kind of immigration law that clearly they have no intention of doing. >> ron, if you look at the history of this going back two administrations, its always set against a backdrop of either a failed comprehensive immigration bill or so...

How many are getting through that are not arresting. if we want to do immigration right in this country, and i want to, i love legal immigration, exhibit a, exhibit a is part of that plan of doing illegal immigration correctly is getting control of our border. we havent had control for decades, under republican administrati administrati administrations, under democrats. >> were almost out of time. quick final word. >> were at a 46 year low. the president pointed that out in his own tweet. and th...

Stated i was told by several top officials that he ordered the salary raises specifically, in part because he knew these people from back in oklahoma. they were close to him. i can also tell you, brianna, he was told this would not go over well if it got out. and he got wise counsel. why he would agree to go on fox news, washington examiner, washington times. sours believe its like no, i can handle this. dont worry. i know kelly doesnt want me to do this but i know who im talking to and can do d...

America a stronger nation. the values immigrants come here, hard work is what we want. but theyre coming here illegally and that cannot be allowed. so we need to stop the illegal flow and the democrats and republicans and president trump need to enact laws to change the way things are. the first change that should be made is the democrats should give the president $25 billion for the wall and the republicans and the president should give democrats and the nation daca. thats crying out for a solu...

That the federal government will provide that help. it frees up the border patrol to do other duties when the military is doing what they pointed out. surveillance duties that allow customs and border patrol to arrest more people. here is the heart of the issue to me. despite donald trumps tough rhetoric and the huge drop in illegals, still 1,000 a day are coming in illegally. thats the size of a pittsburgh. the size of a cincinnati every year. and so even though its dropping, there is still way...

>> sandra: president trump authorizing the deployment of the national guard to our southern border. the move drawing lots of criticism. as we mentioned presidents george w. bush and barack obama did the exact same thing. joining me now chairman of house homeland security committee michael mccaul. thank you for being here this morning. i hope you can clear up some things. can you address that? why is this being looked at differently than previous administrations? weve seen this before. is this ti...

Give the authorities necessary and also the reimbursement to the states when they have more action like my state of texas has born hundreds of millions of dollars in costs. >> sandra: can you give us a range of the number were talking about here? youre giving us an example of past administrations. whats the recommendation? >> in my bill i think its consistent with historical guard on the border, we provide a $35 million reimbursement to each of the states that participate so this could range mul...

Well get to those stories in just a minute. we start with new questions today about just how president trump plans to deploy those troops to our border with mexico. the president just left washington a few moments ago, bound for west virginia. he did not take questions from reporters there as he boarded air force one. at this point, it is unclear where those troops would be deployed a long the nearly 2,000-mile-long border with california, arizona, new mexico and texas. the troops would be natio...