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Border security deal to avert a government shutdown. the bipartisan negotiators emerging from talks last night. they declined to get into details, but senate appropriations chairman richard shelby said, quote, we got an agreement on all of it. >> our staffs are going to be working feverishly to put all of the particulars together. thats all we can tell you. >> a democrat cannic souric sous the deal includes $1.4 billion for 55 miles of new barriers in the rio grand valley. thats short of what th...

Presentations in the past, even with the superinflated number of $5 plus billion, the physical barriers were still always the biggest price tag. you can argue all day long whether or not thats the right way to prioritize but if the president is able to say, look, the numbers are lower but i got more money for physical barriers than we got for anything else on the border, its better than you had before. does that sell to the rightest regions? >> i think a couple of things. i made this point befor...

Surveillance of drug entries into the country. so its really been about the details. now the question i have, when you ask mike a question about the back channel to the white house and do they have the white house stamp of approval. the real question is will trump stick to whatever he may have negotiated? what we have seen from trump on this issue and other issues is that he agrees to something one day and then gets push back from right wing agitators and takes it all back and changes his mind. ...

>> mexico! >> whos going to pay for the wall? >> mexico. >> but a funny thing happened on the way to the white house, the presidents promise ran into reality and no matter what he says to rally his base, the facts just cannot be denied. we all know mexico isnt paying for any of it and then theres trumps latest claim we dont need to build the wall, we just need to finish it. here he was in el paso. >> today we started a big, beautiful wall right on the rio grande. now, you really mean finish that...

Kaitlan? >> reporter: well, you see the president there. essentially his aides are telling him about this deal as hes going onstage. were building the wall anyway is an interesting remark because we know one idea has been floated inside the white house in recent days as theyve been talking about what they would do if those congressional negotiators couldnt come to a deal that they liked. and they thought there was one option, and now this isnt for sure, but this is something that has been floate...

Be okay with whatever theyre trying to sell and if not, would they even think about trying to go over his veto? its probably hyperambitious for that party in its state of playwright now. one of the men that wants to take him on says dont buy what hes saying. its b.s. he says its all about creating a circus of fear and paranoia. so tough talk. julian castro, welcome to primetime. good to see you. >> good to be with you chris. >> when you have trouble, you put up barriers and keep the trouble out....

Thats what they say they need and in terms of the biggest barrier. that number matters for two reasons. one, its a lot more than $1. so nancy pelosi saying not $1 for the wall, the democrats are going to have to articulate what this change means and how they sell it to their base. the second reason it matters is this number doesnt come out of nowhere. in the last budget, the president or whoever figured out the budget for the white house had a number for physical barriers that wasnt that much di...

This all bears out. the agreement calls for $1.375 billion for physical barriers, physical barriers on the border, specifically, though dont say wall. it says bollard fencing. but keep that $1.375 billion in your head. it also calls for 55 miles of new barrier, including in the rio grande valley, and a limit on funding for immigration and customs enforcement detention beds. money for 40,520 beds, okay? so if i.c.e. can find more money, they can use it for more beds. but the big question in all o...

It down that i heard of. >> the mayor is not calling for that. david gergen, go ahead. >> i think we ought to keep very clear in our minds the distinction of a wall, 30-foot concrete wall, especially, paid for by the mexicans especially, and continuation of putting more barriers up of the kind that weve seen under the obama administration. i mean, to proclaim this, the president got something really, really measured out of this, i dont think, fits the facts. he is likely -- im sure they will not...

Congress is giving him just a fraction of the wall money. he will probably take the deal for what it is and use executive action to get more money elsewhere. joining me now james lankford of oklahoma. he sits on the appropriations committee. thank you for taking the time. >> good to be with you again. >> you said in the past you would not support a deal without money for barriers. this deal funds about 55 miles of a border barrier. a prohibition on any kind of concrete wall, we should note. in y...