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Barriers. why the reluctance now? how much it means to him. you can say more politics. this is why i hate the process. fine but thats where the thinking is. thats why the thinking is what it is. so these numbers, we now have new reporting and better context. caitlyn collins at the rally with the president. so lets set the table. with caitlyn, and hear what the president has been saying about a wall at the rally. no mention of a potential deal. any kind of change. whats his sell? >> well, right n...

Hes going to have to decide whether hell participate in this or just keep in a petulant way shutting down the government. i understand his problems. ann coulter and sean hannity dont like this. the other thing going forward is the freedom caucus in the house has been the single most powerful group of voters in the last ten years. the minority within the majority. they are now the minority within the minority. they have no power. they are irrelevant. >> you called it a wall. i believe the languag...

Im talking about the spike in families and children showing up. el pasos history could make the case that we need different strategies in the border. in the 90s they saw a big drop. especially in 1994. thats because they started a new initiative. i want it to make sense in the sequence of this fact check. they had an operation then called hold the line. the idea was to put border patrol agents and vehicles 50 yards apart across the border and that gave them more coverage. later they backed that ...

Ballpa ballpark, for new barriers? >> the senate had passed $1.6 billion previously. those are the parameters i see them working in. 800 million and other number numbers that makes it hard to negotiate in good faith. lets look at this from experts weve heard from. >> not going to be 5.7 billion that the president wanted for a bord border wall and frankly shut the government over in december? >> 5.7 is not what the president wanted. he was requesting that on behalf of customs and border protectio...

Know, juvenile chant where its not even practical. border security experts ive spoken to and that ive worked with in the past have said to me, listen, yes, physical barriers work where necessary in conjunction with other things like technology, like more border patrol agents, like -- >> tara, youve worked on this issue before. wasnt that all done from previous administrations? they were improving some of the barriers and figuring out where to add more wall. >> that was the 2006 secure fence act....

Or with slats. but i do believe that the vast majority of areas that need any kind of structure already have that. and that his call for a concrete wall or anything that resembles that should never happen. both because its a waste of money, it will be ineffective and because the minute we do that, were going to fundamentally change the notion of what america is from the statue of liberty that welcomes immigrants to a country that literally walls itself off from the rest of the world. thats not w...

Details. . >> were setting the stage, folks. its called were setting the table. were doing whatever we have to do. the wall is being built. >> if the phrase setting the table sounds familiar, it should. the president used it two weeks ago saying he thought congressional negotiations were pointless. he would declare a national emergency to spend military dollars on a border wall. >> set the table. i have set the stage for doing what im going to do. im going to wait until the 15th. i think its a w...

>> a democratic source telling cnn the deal includes about $1.4 billion for 55 miles of barriers in the rio grand valley. thats well short of the $5.7 billion president trump was demanding for a border the wall. the deal contains funding for beds i.c.e. can used to detain migrants. >> iron thi in this deal is the funding for a border barrier is only a little bit more than current funding, which is $1.3 billion. the original senate bill, the bill that the president projected was for more than thi...

Election like nobody else. this will always be a place to test your ideas before our audience. good luck. >> i look forward to that. >> thank you for being with us tonight. all right. so you heard something in that conversation that really cant be debatable anymore. the facts about where a wall has made a difference versus not. they have been perverted to a point that theyre almost unrecognizable feeling from fact. we have done the reporting here. physical barriers can make a difference. in plac...

Malpractice. detention beds are staying the same at 40,500. he will get an addition 55 miles of barriers on the southern border. he see getting that. he will pocket the gains. he will complain about this because the freedom caucus and sean hannity will trash thill deal. the president will grumable about it and pocket the gains and probably try to take moneys from the disaster relief fund and put that into border which i think he will have a hard time because he will need to sign off on that. >> ...