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Border. >> you know what? if we didnt do that shutdown, we would not have been able to show this country, these politicians and the world what is happening with the border. that was a very important thing we did. >> as we mention, it was impossible not to notice this, the new slogan looming over the trump event tonight, "finish the wall." it bears repeating, no new stretch of border wall has been built under president trump. there have only been repairs to existing barriers on the border. at one...

Billion. thats not even a wall, a barrier. im going to tell this tonight and well get back into this tomorrow. any republican that supports this garbage compromise, you will have to explain. >> the other wing of the presidents party does not agree. fearful of a second shutdown, they want the president to sign the compromise. >> there is no way that the country should be put through another disastrous government shutdown. my hope is that the president will sign the bill into law. >> i hope we hav...

This is a step down from that. its all sorts of other mild barriers congress has approved in this bill. its in areas that dhs has historically said we need barrier -- >> no, i know that. i know all those things. but that same stuff was on the table and discussed during the shutdown. correct me if im wrong, jake, and youre there every day so you know better than i do, but it seemed at that point, democrats said no across the board. they were more in line with the ocasio-cortezes of the democratic...

So this is the deal hes now presented with, and hes going to have to make a decision whether to sign or not. i agree with jonathan that hes more likely to sign than not and will take some sort of action on his own to supplement the bill that hes getting from congress, or hell try. itll be caught up in litigation for some time. >> let me ask you about the democrats again. during the shutdown, nancy pelosi said she wouldnt give any money for the wall. at one point, she joked maybe shed give a doll...

Barriers? all of the outstanding -- the migration, not migration, the lottery system, the visa lottery system and the family migration, are those issues going to get addressed in a comprehensive bill going forward in this congress? >> thank you. i couldnt have said it better or differently myself. >> you probably could have said it slightly better than i just did. >> no, ive been a strong supporter of comprehensive immigration reform. thats what we have to do. not nip around at the edges. and yo...

Discussion here. barriers have their role but its not all about barriers. but this is a central part of the presidents argument there. that you need the barriers, otherwise were going to have a wave of criminals coming across the border from mexico. is that connection, is that justification misleading in your view? >> well, what he was echoing in the state of union and was correct at the end of his remarks about el paso, that we are the safest city, but the prefacing remarks, he was echoing what...

Falling 60% over the next 13 years. border wall construction didnt begin until 2008. violent crime increased from the year before construction of the fence started to the year it was completed. you dont believe the fbi? okay. how about the republican mayor on cnn. he called the presidents claim flat wrong. >> but the remarks that the president made in the state of the union were stated originally almost verbatim by our attorney general some weeks ago. thats where the excellents came from that we...

About. they were tantalizingly close on the question of money. and that seems imminently fixable. there is not that much money involved. if you have another -- remember, the shutdown cost us $3 billion, if you had put that $3 billion in you could have solved all of these problems and agreed on some barriers and we would be talking about something more serious and more important to the long range hopes of the country. let me make one other point before you invite patrick in. that is the second is...

President trump is taking his campaign for a border wall to el paso, texas tonight. the rally is being paid for by the trump reelection campaign, which is about all the context you really need. but the timing also comes, as we assessed earlier, as a possible government shutdown looms because of differences in the negotiations over border security. now, when the president talks or tweets about the wall, he often twists the facts. lets take look at the current state of play. the border stretches n...

Safest cities in our country. >> the president using a false story that the barriers built in el paso are exhibit a for why he should get the full $5.7 billion he demanded far border wall or barrier or metal slats. whatever the position the case the president lays out is simply false. el paso has never had one of the highest rates of violent crime in the entire country according to fbi data. the violent crime rate has been well below the average rate for the top 35 cities with a population over ...